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TOP 10 · TRAILING P/E — Valuation at the Peak: Historical P/E Multiples on a Logarithmic Scale

Peak Valuation Multiples of Titans — Price-to-earnings ratios of dominant champions upon first ascending to or peaking within the top 10.

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Plate VIII.8 Plotting trailing P/E multiples of market leaders at their peak valuations on a logarithmic scale, benchmarked against 18× (long-term median) and 140× (Cisco's March 2000 peak).

Plotting trailing P/E multiples of market leaders at their peak valuations on a logarithmic scale, benchmarked against 18× (long-term median) and 140× (Cisco's March 2000 peak).

What this page answers

This static page is built to answer searches for TOP 10 · TRAILING P/E · LOG. It summarizes the live dataset behind the Valuation at the Peak: Historical P/E Multiples on a Logarithmic Scale panel and links to the full interactive chart.

Plotting trailing P/E multiples of market leaders at their peak valuations on a logarithmic scale, benchmarked against 18× (long-term median) and 140× (Cisco's March 2000 peak). The data is refreshed by the History of Market pipeline and published as a stable JSON endpoint for research, citation, and AI-agent use.

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Data & Source

Exchange closing prices · Company filings · Robert Shiller · FRED · NBER.

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History of Market combines public market and macro datasets — exchange closing prices, company filings, Robert Shiller, FRED, NBER, and the UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook (Dimson–Marsh–Staunton). The exact endpoint for this panel is linked below.

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