Is A Stock Market Crash Coming? Here's What The Data Suggests
© Provided by The Motley Fool Is a Stock Market Crash Coming? Here's What the Data Suggests For the past 17 months, investors have enjoyed a historic rally. Since bottoming out on March 23, 2020, the broad-based S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has doubled in value. While we've witnessed some healthy bounce-back rallies from a bear-market bottom throughout history, we've never seen the benchmark index double from its lows in such a short time frame. But such rapid gains in the wake of such economic uncertainty also raise the question: Is a stock market crash coming? Although no one knows with any certainty, we can turn to an abundance of data to get a better idea of what might lie ahead for the S&P 500 and your portfolio. A confluence of data suggests a crash or steep correction is growing more likely Perhaps the most concerning indicator that a significant decline might await the stock market can be found by closely examining the S&P 500's Shiller price-to-ear