Why have PE ratios fallen so dramatically?

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So is the amount of PE capital available, despite the rapid growth of domestic funds.

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So staff are less confident in their PE teaching abilities and there has been a steep drop in the numbers of children doing two or more hours exercise a week.

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Its stock has soared over the past year, not so much on rising profits as on a rising PE ratio.

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She says that primary school PE needs extra support because schools are measured on numeracy and literacy so that is what they tend to focus on.

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Of course, they do have the option to lift their allocation ceilings to make room for new PE commitments, and available survey evidence suggests a minority may be doing so.

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Earnings have been so strong lately that the share price valuations remain near 10-year lows, with a PE ratio of less than 18.

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Because the market was so high about a decade ago--dividend yields got down to about 1% and PE got up to almost 40 times--as I say in my book and as I said in the speech I gave at Princeton called "Don't Count On It, " if you think the stock market is going to give a positive return in the next decade, don't count on it.

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