Price To Earnings

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
PE
Pronunciation
/praɪs tɪ ˈərnɪŋz/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. This time Huaneng renewables will seek to woo investors with a lower price to earnings ratio.
  2. By Friday Chinese companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen were trading at an average 38 times 2007 estimated earnings, against an average price to earnings ratio of 22 times in Hong Kong.
  3. After the extended period of disappointing performance, Chinese shares no longer look so expensive in terms of the current price to earnings ratio.
  4. Part of the reason for this is that price to earnings multiples in emerging market equities tend to fall when their central banks start fighting inflation.
  5. While valuation of the market is reasonable both in terms of the price to earnings ratio and the yield gap relative to the US10-year Treasury, the risks to earnings are on the downside.

Other meanings of PE