Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various areas including investing, insurance portfolio management, finance and accounting, personal investment and financial ...

Hello. Everyone would like to wish you all a happy new year and hope 2022 is better for you than it was in 2021. This week's subject is pe ratios otherwise known as price to earnings ratios. When ...

Learn how forward P/E ratios utilize forecasted earnings to assess stock potential and guide investment analysis across ...

Everyone wants to generate a healthy return on their investments. As the saying goes, you should “buy low and sell high.” But while you may think it’s a good idea to invest in a downward-trending ...

Hardly ever has the stock market’s forward P/E ratio been higher than it is today. Based on estimated as-reported earnings per share for the next 12 months, for example, the S&P 500’s SPX current P/E ...

The P/E ratio and the PEG ratio are important valuation metrics when properly utilized. The P/E ratio is more relevant than the PEG ratio when earnings growth is below 15%. When earnings growth is ...

If you are trading stocks, you need to have a strategy. You need to have a good way to differentiate a “buy” stock from a “sell” stock, so that you aren’t investing in stocks that decrease in value.

You should compare P/E ratios of companies in the same industry. A PEG ratio under 1 could signal an undervalued stock. Free cash flow usually comes before increased earnings. Being able to find and ...

There’s no single P/E ratio, causing no end of confusion. The reason there’s more than one ratio traces to ambiguity about the denominator. While the numerator is a fact of the matter, the denominator ...

In these uncertain times, it’s easier to know what you should not be paying attention to. Today’s candidate for this dubious honor is the price/earnings ratio, perhaps the simplest and most popular of ...