# S5FINL · Consensus Forward PE — Financial Sector Thirty-Year Forward P/E Ratio

Source: https://historyofmarket.com/fin/fin-fwdpe/
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Data through 2026-11-12
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Section: History of Market › Financials › Financial Sector Thirty-Year Forward P/E Ratio

XLF forward P/E (weekly): 15.1× as of 2026-05-12.

**Financial Sector Forward P/E** — Three decades of forward P/E multiples for financials, illustrating persistent structural valuation discounts relative to tech.

Figure: Plate V.1 · Trading consistently within an 11–18× corridor, reflecting a structural discount to technology. The brief 38× print in late 2008 was an accounting artifact caused by sector-wide writedowns driving the EPS denominator toward zero. · Data through 2026-11-12

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## Data & Source

[GET /api/sectors/forward-pe.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sectors/forward-pe.json) — Canonical dataset endpoint.

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

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Data: https://historyofmarket.com/api/sectors/forward-pe.json
Machine index: https://historyofmarket.com/llms.txt