Monday, December 16, 2019

On Valuation

From Stock Cats:
He has a point. Here's the annotated chart for SSC.Lon (formally The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for the encouragement of fishing):


https://d577c622-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/davesmant/monetary-economics/famous-first-bubbles/south-sea-bubble/ssbprice.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7coDTV1eA_4NzjvyBZiZFvEbbIFB-G9NAJWQeaW3LDXdO6vIaK66PiuBIlkAZMCybB1esVYzNTi4QE0KgY3kkmPIzW8hUzF4kWJQRPZVJKfdG_qdLCgA7c2wPBCAAnQFaqnnWarQhi_aVj0QxLSTggw0SFalPCaJ5_MeiZU7aWEWXEsgtLZ6BW2AH3tWP0RSMC54vlPMeXwZR1chILfgU5_cIdQdV5nrjHc2-yO_C1cVEh_zhqWUICl8wfbqyvvkpi9E2VNUNbGu-qnqLIQWwMqOddXc_6dI4KGQPA_JB2i5IE7o6_I%3D&attredirects=0


The chart doesn't show it but there were trades done as high as a reputed £1000 per share, so just short of a 10-banger in seven months.