price-to-earnings ratio

Noun
  1. (stock market) the price of a stock divided by its earnings (synset 113846552)
    referred to in: securities market, stock exchange, stock market - an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers
    is a type of: ratio - the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
    same as: p/e ratio

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