Examples of price-earnings ratio in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Value Grade is the percentile rank of the average of the percentile ranks of the valuation metrics mentioned above along with the price-earnings ratio, price-to-book-value ratio and price-to-free-cash-flow ratio. — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 10 June 2021 With a gain of 31.72% year to date, Kinder Morgan (KMI, Financial) has a $40.75 billion market cap; its shares were trading around $18.01 on Mondaywith a price-earnings ratio of 22.21, a price-book ratio of 1.27 and a price-sales ratio of 2.95. — Gurufocus, Forbes, 29 June 2021 The Value Grade is the percentile rank of the average of the percentile ranks of the valuation metrics mentioned above along with the enterprise-value-to-Ebitda (EV/Ebitda) ratio, price-earnings ratio and shareholder yield. — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 21 May 2021 The Chinese e-commerce company has a market cap of $572.88 billion; its shares were trading around $211.12 on Monday with a price-earnings ratio of 24.65, a price-book ratio of 4 and a price-sales ratio of 6.13. — Gurufocus, Forbes, 21 May 2021 The forward price-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 High Dividend Index was 16. — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021 But my research suggests that in the early 1920s, scarcely anyone, outside of investment professionals, knew what a price-earnings ratio was. — Robert J. Shiller, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021 In 2016, the S&P 500’s forward price-earnings ratio was 17. — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021 Currently, Caterpillar’s price-earnings ratio is 41.3. — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021

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“Price-earnings ratio.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/price-earnings%20ratio. Accessed 21 Oct. 2021.

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