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What P/E can tell you about a stock, and what it can’t
– moneysense.ca
If there’s one water cooler conversation that investors love to have, it’s whether stocks are expensive or cheap. Your argument will depend partly on your investment approach: If you’re growth-focused, the valuation metrics of a quickly expanding company may not look overly pricey to you if you think the business has a lot of potential. If you’re value-oriented, those same numbers might cause you to run as far away from the market as fast you can.
But if you were able to have a socially distanced talk around the water cooler today, you and your debating partner would both be left scratching their heads.
Over the last week, the S&P 500’s forward price-to-earnings ratio, one of the main figures that investors use to measure the expensiveness of the market, has climbed to levels not seen since April 2002, when the technology bubble was in mid-burst. At the time of writing this column, the market had a forward P/E of 22 times, according to S&P Capital IQ, despite the fact that the index is still down 16% from Feb…
But if you were able to have a socially distanced talk around the water cooler today, you and your debating partner would both be left scratching their heads.
Over the last week, the S&P 500’s forward price-to-earnings ratio, one of the main figures that investors use to measure the expensiveness of the market, has climbed to levels not seen since April 2002, when the technology bubble was in mid-burst. At the time of writing this column, the market had a forward P/E of 22 times, according to S&P Capital IQ, despite the fact that the index is still down 16% from Feb…
