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P/E Ratio (Price-to-Earnings)

The P/E ratio divides a company's stock price by its earnings per share, showing how much investors are paying for each dollar of profit. It is one of the most widely used (and most widely misused) valuation shortcuts - useful for quick comparisons within an industry, but easily distorted by one-time items or differing growth rates.

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