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The Stock Market Is Closing in on Its Highest Valuation Ever. The Last Time It Got This Expensive, It Crashed.

The stock market is about to break a record. It's not a record it wants to break.

The Stock Market Is Closing in on Its Highest Valuation Ever. The Last Time It Got This Expensive, It Crashed.

Published August 21, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

The stock market is hitting record levels on all fronts.

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) have all hit record highs this year, extending a bull market that's been nearly four years in the making. If these gains hold, 2026 will mark the fourth consecutive year of double-digit returns, extending one of the strongest multi-year runs in decades. That's a record worth celebrating.

Details

And yet there's another record the market is approaching that Wall Street might not be so eager to break.

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Originally published at www.fool.com.

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