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Why was S&P 500 PE Ratio so high on May 2009
Asking why the p/e was so high is best answered "because reported earnings were so low".
Recall that the S&P500 bottomed in early March 2009 when the panic of the financial crisis reached ...
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Where can I find historical P/E ratios for companies?
The mathematics site, WolframAlpha, provides such data.
Here is a link to historic p/e data for Apple.
You can chart other companies simply by typing "p/e code" into the search box. For example, "p/...
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Discrepancy in P/E ratio of stocks in Robinhood app?
The EPS of Amazon for the last quarter of 2018 was $6.05. However, the P/E ratio is calculated using an annual number for earnings. Amazon’s earnings for 2018 was $20.14. (Source)
$1673 / $20.14 = 83....
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Is the PE ratio a good indicator of when to move money in and out of the stock market?
Great question - one could write an entire book answering it. The P/E ratio is a reasonable (I don't agree with the subjective term "good") indicator of whether a particular company is over or ...
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Does the P/E ratio of REITs matter for dividend investing?
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are required by law (at least in the U.S.) to maintain a dividend payout ratio of at least 90%. In other words, they are required to pay out at least 90% of ...
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The rule of thumb that if the growth of a company is 20% per year, then the P/E should be 20, what is this rule based on?
Companies with stable, positive earnings that are not expected to grow are not worthless. 0% growth does not imply 0 P/E.
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Understanding corporate earnings manipulation
Imagine that I run Justin's Lawnmowing Inc. In the first year of operation I make $1,000. I spend $100 on gas and other consumables to run my lawnmowers. I also spend $1,200 on a new lawnmower for ...
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For a very stable listed company, does the P/E ratio represent how many years the buyer can stand to earn his/her investment back?
This would be for example a company with a share price of $90 and profits of $10 in the last year. If the company paid out all its profits as dividends, and the company made the exact same profits ...
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The rule of thumb that if the growth of a company is 20% per year, then the P/E should be 20, what is this rule based on?
I'm not sure I agree with the implication, but I believe he is saying that if EPS grows by 40%, and you find that the current price of the stock has a P/E ratio of 40, then that is "okay and ...
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Does the P/E ratio of REITs matter for dividend investing?
I believe the accepted answer is at best misleading, and at worst entirely incorrect. The P/E ratio is based on EPS, but for REITs, EPS is not very meaningful since it includes depreciation, which is ...
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Price Earnings Ratio
The P/E ratio is a measure of historic (the previous financial year) earnings against the current share price.
If the P/E is high, this means that the market perceives a big increase in future ...
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The Intelligent Investor: Northern Pacific Railway example
Without reading the source, from your description it seems that the author believes that this particular company was undervalued in the marketplace. It seems that investors were blinded by a small ...
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Does the P/E ratio not apply to bond ETFs?
The simple answer is technically bonds don't have earnings, hence no P/E.
What I think the OP is really asking how do I compare stock and bond ETFs. Some mature stocks exhibit very similar ...
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For a very stable listed company, does the P/E ratio represent how many years the buyer can stand to earn his/her investment back?
Sort of, but not really. The measure just represents its share price divided by earnings per share for a relevant period such as the last financial year.
It says nothing about future periods.
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Charles Schwab shows Ebay's PE as 21. Is that a mistake or a different way of calculating?
The numbers you use to get ~$10B annual "earnings" appear to be revenue, not earnings. (Earnings are revenue minus expenses.)
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Is it possible to identify the number of years to double the return on investment considering earnings growth
No, it is not possible because the current price and earnings do not have such a direct causal relationship with the ROI for you as an investor in that company.
Certainly it is true that a company ...
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Where or how can I model historical market purchases
Robert Shiller has an on-line page with links to download some historical data that may be what you want here. Center for the Research in Security Prices would be my suggestion for another resource ...
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What do Earnings Per Share tell potential shareholders?
EPS is a starting point- at least there's an "E" !
Some very fast growing companies are investing all their revenue and have little to no "E" at all. Doesn't mean it's a bad investment IF (!) they ...
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How do I find out the Earnings Per Share of a Coca Cola Co Share?
Market cap should be share price times number of shares, right? That's several orders of magnitude right there...
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Does the P/E ratio not apply to bond ETFs?
A bond fund has a 5% yield. You can take 1/.05 and think of it as a 20 P/E.
I wouldn't, because no one else does, really. An individual bond has a coupon yield, and a YTM, yield to maturity. A bond ...
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Is dividend included in EPS
EPS is often earnings/diluted shares. That is counting shares as if all convertible securities (employee stock options for example) were converted. Looking at page 3 of Q4 2015 Reissued Earnings Press ...
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Is dividend included in EPS
Not quite.
The EPS is noted as ttm, which means trailing twelve months --- so the earnings are taken from known values over the previous year.
The number you quote as the dividend is actually the ...
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What should I look for when looking for stocks that are 'on-sale'?
It might seem like the PE ratio is very useful, but it's actually pretty useless as a measure used to make buy or sell decisions, and taken largely on its own, pretty useless becomes utterly and ...
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Is Peter Lynch talking about the Dividend Adjusted PEG Ratio in this quote?
Essentially, yes, Peter Lynch is talking about the PEG Ratio.
The Price/Earnings to Growth (PEG) Ratio is where you take the p/e ratio and then divide that by the growth rate (which should include ...
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How to calculate stock price with EPS and outstanding shares
To answer your question: You can’t.
Earnings per share (the metric EPS) is not directly correlated to stock price.
EPS is a metric which is often used for benchmarking a stocks performance relative ...
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Trailing or forward earnings to calculate SP500?
The answer depends on what the future price for the Index will be used for.
Trailing Earnings, or Trailing P/E is used as a consistent and quite reliable metric for Index performance relative to its ...
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Why do PEG ratio values calculated on different financial web sites differ from each other?
There are two inputs to the PEG ratio calculation: The P/E ratio, and the growth rate. Each of these inputs can be calculated in a variety of ways. The P/E ratio, for instance, can use either trailing ...
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Studying for basic finance exam and stuck finding the stock value
There is insufficient information given.
Beta is of no help.
EPS would help if we knew the P/E ratio of the company, but we don't.
Expected return is insuficiently specified. Expected return on ...
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Understanding corporate earnings manipulation
To stay in your example, say your company buys a printer for $800.
It exchanges $800 for an object that is worth $800 so actually no money was lost. You could theoretically sell the printer and get ...
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For a very stable listed company, does the P/E ratio represent how many years the buyer can stand to earn his/her investment back?
No. You're forgetting abound "compound interest". Since the company is not growing, it presumably pays out all earnings as dividends. As a shareholder, you could reinvest those by buying more shares.
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