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Price/earnings ratio
A crude method of judging whether shares are cheap or expensive; the ratio of the market price of a share to the company's earnings (profit) per share. The higher the price/earnings (P/E) ratio, the more investors are buying a company's shares in the expectation that it will make larger profits in future than now. In other words, the higher the P/E ratio, the more optimistic investors are being.
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- Category: Economics
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