price-to-earnings

Where the analysts seem to have gone off the rails last year is in the price-to-earnings multiples on which they based their predictions.

The second is the price-to-rent ratio, which is a bit like the price-to-earnings ratio used to value companies.

One can measure a company by its price-to-earnings ratio, its rate of dividends, its management competence, and its history.

The company will need to substantially increase its earnings to justify its high price-to-earnings ratio, or the stock price will drop.

US equity prices are also more than twice the level long term cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratios say they should be.

On valuations, average emerging market stocks are trading at a 10% discount to developed market stocks on a forward price-to-earnings ratio.

This time Huaneng Renewables will seek to woo investors with a lower price to earnings ratio.

Mobius was also bullish on Russian stocks, citing the country's growth outlook and stocks' relatively low price-to-earnings ratios.

Unfortunately, there's nothing as straightforward as a price-to-earnings ratio for currencies to gauge whether they are too pricey or cheap.

Average price-to-earnings ratios in Europe, on a trailing 12-month basis, are about 16, up from seven back in March, according to Citigroup.

Yet despite the bullish outlook on earnings, emerging market stocks still appear overvalued on a price-to-earnings basis.

So what do data on future earnings (aka "forward earnings" ) and future price-to-earnings ratios tell us?

At Thursday's close, the price-to-earnings ratio of the S&P 500 was down to 10. 7, the lowest since the early 1980s.

Smaller companies listed in Shenzhen trade at extremely high valuations, many at price-to-earnings multiples above 70.

Based on price-to-book and trailing price-to-earnings ratios, stocks are pricing in a 33% drop in corporate earnings, he estimates.

That's cheap compared with a 49. 5 price-to-earnings ratio for the market at the October 2007 high.

A book describing factors to consider when deciding whether to buy a company's stock. This may include price to earnings ratio, dividends.

Right now, listed Chinese banks are trading at modest price-to-earnings ratios of around 10.

Class A shares are trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of around 25 times their forecast 2009 earnings.

The S&P 500 forward price-to-earnings ratio is now at 12, its lowest in years.

On current earnings, the index is also at record lows with a price-to-earnings ratio of 12. 6.

Ten of 13 sectors in the MSCI China Index are above their long-term price-to-earnings averages.

The table below lists the price-to-earnings ratios of the world's major stock markets as of October 29.

Strip out those gains and, according to Morgan Stanley, the actual price-to-earnings ratio is a bubbly 58 times.

Those with the lowest price-to-earnings ratios are up 10%.

On their debut last Friday, all 28 stocks gained between 76 per cent and 210 per cent and pushed price to earnings ratios as high as 150.

BHP is trading at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 9. 77 times, while Potash Corp. is trading at 27. 2 times.

The real price-to-earnings ratio, based on a more normal level of earnings, is well over 20.

Based on today's Treasury levels, that would imply a price-to-earnings ratio of 46. 1.

The program monitors about 30 factors that can affect a stock's performance, such as price-to-earnings ratios or interest rates.

Between March 2000 and October 2002, the S&P 500 fell 49%, but its price-to-earnings ratio never fell to the historical average of 15 or 16.

Dugan said that Japanese stocks, for example, were cheap with good price to earnings ratios.

The average price-to-earnings ratio on current year forecasts for luxury stocks now hovers around 16 to 18 times against 10 to 13 last year.

Comparison between stocks of high and low price to earnings ratio in Shanghai A share