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P/E RATIO
Dictionary entry overview: What does P/E ratio mean?
• P/E RATIO (noun)
The noun P/E RATIO has 1 sense:
1. (stock market) the price of a stock divided by its earnings
Familiarity information: P/E RATIO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(stock market) the price of a stock divided by its earnings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
P/E ratio; price-to-earnings ratio
Hypernyms ("P/E ratio" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))
Domain category:
securities market; stock exchange; stock market (an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers)
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