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S5COND · Consensus Forward PE

S5COND · Consensus Forward PE — Consumer Discretionary Forward P/E Multiple (S5COND)

Consumer Discretionary Forward P/E — Weekly consensus forward P/E for the S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary Index.

Weekly consensus forward P/E for the S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary Index, licensed data. The sector's multiple carries two distortions worth knowing before reading any level: recession-year earnings collapses push the ratio up rather than down, and since the mid-2010s two heavily weighted growth names lift the aggregate above what a typical retailer trades at.

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This static page is built to answer searches for S5COND · Consensus Forward PE. It summarizes the live dataset behind the Consumer Discretionary Forward P/E Multiple (S5COND) panel and links to the full interactive chart.

Weekly consensus forward P/E for the S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary Index, licensed data. The sector's multiple carries two distortions worth knowing before reading any level: recession-year earnings collapses push the ratio up rather than down, and since the mid-2010s two heavily weighted growth names lift the aggregate above what a typical retailer trades at. 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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Plate VI.15 Weekly consensus forward P/E for the S&P 500 Consumer Discretionary Index, licensed data. The sector's multiple carries two distortions worth knowing before reading any level: recession-year earnings collapses push the ratio up rather than down, and since the mid-2010s two heavily weighted growth names lift the aggregate above what a typical retailer trades at. 2026-09-06

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GET /api/sectors/forward-pe.json — Canonical dataset endpoint.

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