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Definition of Price-to-earnings ratio
1. Noun. (stock market) the price of a stock divided by its earnings.
Category relationships: Securities Market, Stock Exchange, Stock Market
Generic synonyms: Ratio
Lexicographical Neighbors of Price-to-earnings Ratio
Literary usage of Price-to-earnings ratio
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Finance by Robert S. Rosefsky (2001)
"If that same stock were selling for $10 per share, its price-to-earnings ratio
would be 10 to 1 ($10 market price to $1 worth of earnings), or simply 10. ..."
2. Profiting from Chaos: Using Chaos Theory for Market Timing, Stock Selection by Tonis Vaga (1994)
"His criteria indude the following factors: 1. strong earnings growth; 2.
a reasonable price to earnings ratio; 3. buying by corporate insiders; ..."
3. United Kingdom by Oecd (2004)
"... and a sharp correction is due although others cite structural reasons why the
house price to earnings ratio may have increased.10 In relation to rents, ..."
4. Financial Restatements: Update of Public Company Trends, Market Impacts, and by Orice Williams (2007)
"The price-to-earnings ratio functioned as an indicator supporting the finding of
unchanged confidence; in January 2006, the ratio was equivalent to its June ..."
5. Global Financial Turmoil and Reform: A United Nations Perspective by Barry Herman (1999)
"... noted that: "A lot of the superior returns (in South-East Asian countries)
came from either asset inflation and PE (price to earnings ratio) expansion. ..."
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