Audio English.net » Dictionary » P » P ... Pacification

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

• P/E RATIO (noun)

Sense 1

P/E ratio ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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)

Learn English with... Proverbs of the week

"God blesses a drunk." (English proverb)

"To be poor is not a sin, it's better to avoid it anyway" (Breton proverb)

"Man's schemes are inferior to those made by heaven." (Chinese proverb)

"If someone isn't handsome by nature, it's useless for them to wash over and over again." (Corsican proverb)

Related FAQs:

» RATIO

Page delivered in 0.026 seconds