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Investment Basics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) stock screening tools available for free on:
finance.yahoo.com
www.nasdaq.com
www.businessweek.com

Also you can calculate
The price to book ratio (PBR)
The price to sales ratio (PSR)

The P/E ratio (price-to-earnings ratio) of a stock (also called its "P/E", "PER", "earnings multiple," or simply "multiple") is a measure of the price paid for a share relative to the annual net income or profit earned by the firm per share. investors believe the company will grow. Stocks in fast-growing industries tend to have higher P/E ratios. [wiki]