How to Use price-earnings ratio in a Sentence

price-earnings ratio

noun

• There is no price-earnings ratio.
  — John Navin, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
• The price-earnings ratio is 28.
  — John Navin, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• The price-earnings ratio helps to keep your perspective in check.
  — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• The price-earnings ratio is 19.
  — John Navin, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Since there are no recent earnings, Sasol has no price-earnings ratio.
  — John Navin, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• The price-earnings ratio is 65 and the stock goes for 20 times book value.
  — John Navin, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
• Over the last three years, the average price-earnings ratio was 19.
  — Sarat Sethi, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
• The stock trades with a price-earnings ratio of 7 and at a 40% discount to its book value.
  — John Navin, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• The price-earnings ratio is a common way of measuring a stock’s performance.
  — Thomas Heath, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
• Stocks with low price-earnings ratios (low p/e’s) attract the interest of value investors.
  — John Navin, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• The startup-heavy ChiNext index trades at a price-earnings ratio of 45.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2019
• Look at the price-earnings ratio, or P/E, which is the price of a stock divided by its earnings per share.
  — Mark Hulbert, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
• Having said that, price-earnings ratios are not the only indicator of market froth.
  — Ron Insana, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
• Low price-earnings ratios are the first, best indicators for selection of value.
  — John Navin, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
• The Nasdaq 100’s price-earnings ratio is about 5% above its average over the past decade.
  — Ryan Vlastelica, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2022
• Apple has a price-earnings ratio--the ratio of its market valuation to its profits--of about 33.
  — Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2020
• But as of around October 2025, that price-earnings ratio fell and is now the smallest since the pandemic.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
• Jack in the Box , which runs Chipotle competitor Qdoba, has a price-earnings ratio of 19.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2017
• The forward price-earnings ratio is 6 and the REIT trades at 41% of its book value.
  — John Navin, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
• Disney is historically cheap with a price-earnings ratio under 15.
  — Sarat Sethi, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
• Nvidia's price-earnings ratio is at 30 times, while Microsoft trades at nearly 32 times forward earnings.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
• At its peak, the Japanese equity market traded at four times the price-earnings ratio of the American market.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
• Palantir’s stock, which was up 173% for the year heading into Tuesday’s trading, has a forward price-earnings ratio of 228.
  — Yun Li,john Melloy, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
• This record level of ownership creates a lockstep movement between the price-earnings ratio of the S & P 500 and the retail flow into the market.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 20 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The dotcom bubble at the turn of the century largely followed the same pattern, though the price-earnings ratio was much greater, exceeding 150% for the IT sector in the early 2000s, compared to a peak of nearly 75% in late 2024, Higgins noted.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026