What Is The Buffett Indicator?The Buffett indicator is a metric we can calculate by dividing the total value of the stock market by the country’s GDP. To arrive at this number, the common approach is to divide the total value of the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index by the total U.S. GDP. Q1 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The Wilshire 5000 is named for the roughly 5,000 companies the index contained when it launched in 1980. Since then, the number of companies has fluctuated, but the name has stayed the same. GDP figures are released quarterly by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (…