The Stock Market is Objectively Overvalued. I know it is annoying to hear people talking about a market crash that never seems to come, I don't want to be a Chicken Little. A broken clock is right... eventually? However, while it is impossible to predict a market crash, it is pretty easy to know when things are dangerous. Equities are simply overvalued right now. Ballooning stock prices and stagnant earnings expectations have caused valuations — the price/earnings (P/E) ratio — to skyrocket. The forecasted 12-month P/E ratio is 17.0, significantly higher than the 14.6 over the last 5 years and 14.3 over the last decade.