p/e ratio

1. 1.

   (stock market) the price of a stock divided by its earnings

   Synonymsprice-to-earnings ratio

   Broaderratio

   stock exchange

Questions about p/e ratio

What does p/e ratio mean?

p/e ratio means "(stock market) the price of a stock divided by its earnings".

What is another word for p/e ratio?

Close synonyms include price-to-earnings ratio. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is p/e ratio a common word?

p/e ratio is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.