The price-earnings ratio is the second major valuation ratio profiled in Axel Tracy's book, Ratio Analysis Fundamentals: How 17 Financial Ratios Can Allow You to Analyse Any Business on the Planet.

Among the important tools available to investors is ratio analysis. For example, we commonly, perhaps even unconsciously, use the price-earnings ratio as a way of evaluating a stock's price and ...

Bruns, William J., Jr. "Introduction to Financial Ratios and Financial Statement Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-029, August 1992. (Revised September 2004.) ...

There are dozens of financial ratios and their meanings help business owners evaluate the financial health of a company. Financial ratios can be broken into six key areas of analysis: liquidity, ...

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