Efficient Markets Hypothesis

Efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) says that stocks always trade at a fair value as all the current information is reflected in the price. There is a fairly good article on this at Investopedia. There is also an article on Wikipedia. You can find scholarly articles also on the interest by googling it.

I think that Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) is a myth. I do not believe that markets get prices right. If EMH was correct we would not get bubbles or bear markets. The market is made up of people, and people are emotional. Stocks are often under or overvalued. For example, if a company cuts its dividends, dividend investors can get mad and the stock drops more than it should on valuation alone.

My definition of a bear market is when most people worry about the same problem at the same time. The problem could have been around for many months, but all of a sudden, people worry. A bubble occurs because most people get excited about some aspect of the future. Of course, bubble can occur for other reasons as assets can bubble because of low interest rates, but that is an entirely different subject.

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