PRICE-TO-EARNINGS RATIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does price-to-earnings ratio mean? 

• PRICE-TO-EARNINGS RATIO (noun)
  The noun PRICE-TO-EARNINGS RATIO has 1 sense:

1. (stock market) the price of a stock divided by its earnings

  Familiarity information: PRICE-TO-EARNINGS RATIO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRICE-TO-EARNINGS RATIO (noun)

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 ("price-to-earnings 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)