price-to-earnings ratio

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsP/E ratio

   Broaderratio

   stock exchange

Questions about price-to-earnings ratio

What does price-to-earnings ratio mean?

price-to-earnings ratio means "(stock market) the price of a stock divided by its earnings".

What is another word for price-to-earnings ratio?

Close synonyms include P/E 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 price-to-earnings ratio a common word?

price-to-earnings ratio is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.