How did the S&P 500 index double when corporate profits have been flat since 2012?

by ether2015


https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CP

I was looking at this chart and I couldn’t help but notice that after tax corporate profits have not moved much since 2012. Why is that? And how can the stock market go up that much without much profit growth?

 

 

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