No commodity super-cycles in sight is a tonic for low inflation and comfortably cruising price-earnings ratios.
The enormous differences in debt levels make the comparison between price-earnings ratios not so meaningful.
Macronix's price-earnings ratio for forecasted 2002 is only 19, compared with 50 for Intel.
Many use a dividend discount model, but I prefer the straight price-earnings ratio yardstick.
Off 60% from its 52-week highs, Suntech trades at a price-earnings ratio of 26.
Polycom was trading at 31 times estimated 2011 earnings, its highest price-earnings ratio ever.
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The average stock price-earnings ratio is about 14, or 20% cheaper than in 2007.
The price-earnings ratios are still stratospheric--for companies that have any earnings at all, that is.
The recovery in profits has driven down the historic price-earnings ratio on most markets.
And any debutant with a price-earnings ratio 25% above its peers must reconsider its valuation.
Amazon is growing earnings into FY12 at 38% and trading at a price-earnings of 32x.
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If successful, the price-earnings ratio for Apple then levitates because this is recurrent franchise earnings power.
The company's price-earnings growth (PEG) ratio is 1.57, based on a five-year annual growth rate of 12.5%.
The price-earnings ratio is primarily driven by stock prices, although earnings also respond to changing business conditions.
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This counts for a lot, particularly when the earnings part of the price-earnings ratio starts to levitate.
The recent results did not dent its share price, which reflects a price-earnings ratio of about 21.
Are the value measures -- price-to- book, price-to-earnings, price-to-cash flow -- in line with those of similar public companies?
The stocks would sell on their price-earnings ratios for a couple of years.
In addition, its average price-earnings multiple since 2008 has been 17.72 times earnings.
The system went LBO crazy and price-earnings ratios levitated to 20 times earnings.
Additionally, price-earnings ratios stood much too advanced in a high interest rate environment.
The company also trades for a relatively modest price-earnings growth ratio of 1.09.
Yes, you can see the current situation of lots of cash, a low price-earnings multiple, name recognition, enterprise usage.
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Google sells at a lower price-earnings ratio than Union Pacific or Caterpillar Tractor.
Honda's shares trade on a paltry (in Japanese terms) price-earnings multiple of 28.
Finally, I set the valuation limits at a maximum price-to-book ratio of 4.0 and a maximum price-earnings ratio of 25.0.
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The dividend yield for the market is a function of its price-earnings ratio more than the dividend payout ratio on earnings.
Long term, the market awards higher price-earnings ratios to software and services enterprises like Google, than to hardware operators like Apple.
European equities, which have on average underperformed American ones, look more attractive: the price-earnings ratio in the euro zone is 11.
That, in turn, could damage the price-earnings multiple that investors are willing to pay for their shares, raising banks' cost of capital.
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