Nowadays the price-earnings ratio is on average more like 30.
Here's what we found: by 2050, the price-earnings ratio would have to rise to about 70.
A. The only reason we're not is that we have a high price-earnings ratio, about 16-17.
The fund's price-earnings ratio is 13.5, about five points less than the market as a whole.
The price-earnings ratio of the market using Abby's and my numbers is about 23.
When a stock's price-earnings ratio gets to 10 percent above the market average, it is reviewed.
At $120, the company's price-earnings ratio would match the 29 percent expected earnings increase in 1998.
The average price-earnings ratio of French stocks is about 19.
Had earnings stayed the same, the price-earnings ratio would be less than half the 165 level.
The average price-earnings ratio for the industry is about 12.