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Decomposing the Price-Earnings Ratio

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
The price-earnings ratio is a widely used measure of the expected performance of companies, and it has almost invariably been calculated as the ratio of the current share price to the previous year's earnings. However, the P/E of a particular stock is partly determined by outside influences such as the year in which it is measured, the size of the ...
Keith Anderson, Chris Brooks
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Price‐to‐Earnings Ratios and Option Prices

Journal of Futures Markets, 2015
AbstractIn May of 1997, in the midst of the Internet bubble, the average month end P/E ratio for the software industry was 44. However, the 5‐year historical average was 31. In this study, we examine the effect of this industry value fluctuation on the effects of option prices.
Ansley Chua   +3 more
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The Price-Earnings Ratio

The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2002
The P/E ratio is a widely used tool for valuation of common stock. One of its prime virtues is the simplicity of calculation. In this article the author suggests that in some situations a more complex calculation, but analogous to a P/E ratio, gives more useful information. The two situations reviewed are for a firm with an abnormal liability and for a
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Food, Food Prices and Price/ Earning Ratios

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 1975
The book value of assets employed on U.S. farms is approximately six times the farm value of products shipped. Consequently, even at present price levels the return on assets in farming averages only three or four per cent. As farmers become more businesslike managers and as inherited assets decline in relative importance such a low rate of return will
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Price-Earnings Ratios

Financial Analysts Journal, 1960
WITHIN THREE TO TEN YEARS, will the better price performance be in common stocks, with the current price earnings multiples of over 25 times, or in those under 12 times? Answers to this question as posed to sophisticated Financial Analysts and business men, in the past year, have been nearly ten-to-one in favor of the high multiples. It is assumed they
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