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Centenary College
Course ID: GFN 610
Course Name: Financial Management
Instructor: Frank M.Longo MBA, CPA
Student: Tomas Silverio
Subject: Price/Earnings Ratio
Please read the article submitted in class this past week. Write a paper explaining what the P/E Ratio is, what does it tell you, how much should investors rely on it in making decisions, what happens when a company is not profitable, what is a trailing and forward P/E Ratio, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using historical data?
A- Explain what the P/E Ratio is:
P/E Ratio is short for the ratio of a company's share price to its per-share earnings. As the name implies, to calculate the P/E, you simply take the current stock price of a company and divide by its earnings per share (EPS):
P/E Ratio = Market Value per Share Earnings per Share (EPS)
B- What does the P/E Ratio tell you?
Theoretically, P/E tells us how much investors are willing to pay per dollar of earnings. For this reason it's also called the "multiple" of a stock. In other words, a P/E ratio of 20 suggests that investors in the stock are willing to pay $20 for every $1 of earnings that the company generates.
C- What is a trailing and forward P/E Ratio?
Trailing P/E Ratio is the sum of a company's price-to-earnings, calculated by taking the current stock price and dividing it by the trailing earnings per share for the past 12 months.
Forward P/E Ratio is the price of a security per share at a given time divided by its projected earnings per share over the coming year. A forward P/E ratio is a way to help determine a security's stock valuation (that is, the fair value of a stock in a perfect market). It is also a measure of expected, but not realized, growth.
D- What are the advantages and disadvantages of using historical data?
Advantages
It means all of the information is together.
The information can be portable if on a laptop.
The information is easy to access at any
Course ID: GFN 610
Course Name: Financial Management
Instructor: Frank M.Longo MBA, CPA
Student: Tomas Silverio
Subject: Price/Earnings Ratio
Please read the article submitted in class this past week. Write a paper explaining what the P/E Ratio is, what does it tell you, how much should investors rely on it in making decisions, what happens when a company is not profitable, what is a trailing and forward P/E Ratio, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using historical data?
A- Explain what the P/E Ratio is:
P/E Ratio is short for the ratio of a company's share price to its per-share earnings. As the name implies, to calculate the P/E, you simply take the current stock price of a company and divide by its earnings per share (EPS):
P/E Ratio = Market Value per Share Earnings per Share (EPS)
B- What does the P/E Ratio tell you?
Theoretically, P/E tells us how much investors are willing to pay per dollar of earnings. For this reason it's also called the "multiple" of a stock. In other words, a P/E ratio of 20 suggests that investors in the stock are willing to pay $20 for every $1 of earnings that the company generates.
C- What is a trailing and forward P/E Ratio?
Trailing P/E Ratio is the sum of a company's price-to-earnings, calculated by taking the current stock price and dividing it by the trailing earnings per share for the past 12 months.
Forward P/E Ratio is the price of a security per share at a given time divided by its projected earnings per share over the coming year. A forward P/E ratio is a way to help determine a security's stock valuation (that is, the fair value of a stock in a perfect market). It is also a measure of expected, but not realized, growth.
D- What are the advantages and disadvantages of using historical data?
Advantages
It means all of the information is together.
The information can be portable if on a laptop.
The information is easy to access at any