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Price-Earnings Ratio

The price of a security per share at a given time divided by its annual earnings per share. Often, the earnings used are trailing 12 month earnings, but some analysts use other forms. The P/E ratio is a way to help determine a security's stock valuation, that is, the fair value of a stock in a perfect market. It is also a measure of expected, but not realized, growth. Companies expected to announce higher earnings usually have a higher P/E ratio, while companies expected to announce lower earnings usually have a lower P/E ratio. See also: PEG

multiple

1. In stock-index futures, the number multiplied by the futures price to determine the value of the contract. For example, the $500 multiple of the Standard & Poor's Midcap Index is multiplied by the futures price to determine the value of one contract. Thus, a futures price of $230 would yield a contract value of $115,000 ($500 × $230).

2. See price-earnings ratio.

Multiple. A stock's multiple is its price-to-earnings ratio (P/E). It's figured by dividing the market price of the stock by the company's earnings.

The earnings could be the actual earnings for the past four quarters, called a trailing P/E. Or they might be the actual figures for the past two quarters plus an analyst's projection for the next two, called a forward P/E.

Investors use the multiple as a way to assess whether the price they are paying for the stock is justified by its earnings potential. The higher the multiple they are willing to accept, the higher their expectations for the stock.

However, some investors reject stocks with higher multiples, since it may be impossible for the stock to meet the market's expectations.

Multiple

What Does Multiple Mean?

A term that measures a particular aspect of a company's financial well-being, determined by dividing one metric by another metric. The metric in the numerator is typically larger than the one in the denominator, because the top metric usually is supposed to be many times larger than the bottom metric. It is calculated as follows:

Investopedia explains Multiple

As an example, the term “multiple” can be used to show how much investors are willing to pay per dollar of earnings, as computed by the P/E ratio. Suppose one is analyzing a stock with $2 of earnings per share (EPS) that is trading at $20; this stock has a P/E of 10. This means that investors are willing to pay a multiple of 10 times earnings for the stock.

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Enterprise Multiple
Enterprise value/EBITDA ratio
GNMA-II
MDA
Multiple Arbitrage
Multiple Compression
Multiple Insurance
Multiple Listing
Multiple Management
Multiple Rates of Return
Multiple Regression
Multiple Shop
Multiple Taxation
Multiple-Issuer Pool
Multiple-Issuer Pools
P/E Ratio
Price-Earnings Ratio

Youngsters are often vulnerable to drugs, specifically young offenders, youngsters in institutional care, students with social or academic problems, and young people who live in disadvantaged families or neighborhoods where multiple risk factors and problems are concentrated.

Importance of Youth Drug Testing at High Schools by Philip Thomas / Health, general community

Multiple risks await human beings in the sphere of estate management.

Estate Planning ?Protection Against Unforeseen Risks and over Taxation by michael russell / Business community

It is a challenging job and we are managing multiple risks," said Nilekani.

Nilekani says 600 million citizens to get UID in next 4-5-years by Asian News International

Multifamily Loans

multifamily residential property

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

Multilateral netting system

Multilateral Steel Agreement

Multilith

Multimaturity Bond