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From Fool Global Headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money Radio Show.

I'm Dylan Lewis.

Joining me over the Airwaves, Motley Fool senior analysts, Matt Argersinger, and Bill Man. Fools,

great to have you both here. Dylan. How you doing, Dylan? I'm doing great because we are getting

to put a bow on 2024. This is our annual lookback. We are going to be checking in on the winners and losers of the past year, maybe reminding listeners of a couple things that they forgot about in the news cycle over the last 12 months. I'm going to kick us off with a rolling market check-in. As we tape, 11 market days remaining, S&P 500 up 27% year-to- NASDAQ up 35% year to date, Dow up 16% year to

date. Matt, unless something unprecedented happens in the next two weeks, 2024 will go down

as a good year for stock investors. Oh, that's an understatement, Dylan. Yeah, good. I'd say

a remarkable year. Anytime you can have the broader market up almost 30% is a pretty amazing year for the market. But, you know, actually, Dylan, it's been a remarkable two-year run for the market. If you look at the NASDAQ 100, since the start of 2003, it's up nearly 100%. The S&P 500 is up more than 60%. And I'll just say this. And this is

something David Gardner says all the time. You know, the market is up two out of every three years.

We've had two really strong years now. Valuations kind of where they're at, especially for

the U.S. stock market. I mean, this is from Yardini

research. The S&P 500 is currently trading at a 4PE multiple. This is based on earnings

for the new year, 2025. It's trading at a 4P multiple of 22. You kind of have to go back to

1999 to get a multiple that's higher than that. And by the way, Yardini's Mega Cap 8, which is defined as

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia, and Tesla, the companies we talk about

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