price-earnings ratio

At least on a price-earnings ratio basis, Zhengye's shares look relatively cheap compared to its business partners.

Valuations are high, the price-earnings ratio in Shanghai is about 25, but they are well below the sort of levels reached in 2001.

Equity valuations, as measured by the price-earnings ratio, tend to be highest when inflation is low and stable.

If you think a post-recovery price-earnings ratio for the S& P 500 will be something like 14 to 15, then this assumption makes sense.

Earnings Multiplier The estimated price-earnings ratio adjusted for the current level of interest rates.

The recovery in profits has driven down the historic price-earnings ratio on most markets.

The question is important because of the measure that investors rely on to assess market valuations: the price-earnings ratio.

In practical terms, this means they stand at an average 20% discount to the market's prospective price-earnings ratio.

Failing to normalise earnings: emerging market stocks may look cheap based on their historic price- earnings ratio.

Shanghai stocks trade on a price-earnings ratio of more than 60 times.

Related data show that H-shares the current average price-earnings ratio of 30 times.

Even as Apple's stock jumped in reaction, adding $25 billion in market value, its price-earnings ratio didn't.

You may think that serenely stable share price suggests Goldman is a safe haven; its low price-earnings ratio tells a different story.

Even looking at 2011 projected earnings of $125 million, that's a sizable 46x price-earnings ratio.

The market's forward price-earnings ratio is now 16. 8.

The current average price earnings ratio was about 30 against the 15-year average of 42.

The S&P 500 index is trading on a price-earnings ratio of around 20, based on 2009 forecasts for operating earnings.

but in the later stages of bull markets , investors tend to re - rate profits , allowing shares to trade on a higher price - earnings ratio