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How do you know a stock is expensive? Part 3

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Company’s enterprise value to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. In addition to the P/E ratio and PEG ratio, investors can also use enterprise value to EBITDA to evaluate whether a company is expensive or not. Enterprise value can be defined as the cost of the company to another investor who would want to buy it. In our previous analysis in determining whether a company is expensive or not, those ratios did not take into account debt but the …

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How do you know a stock is expensive? Part 1

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Often in the financial media, a talking head or analyst will dismiss a stock as being “too expensive”. Yet often these expensive stocks are the ones that produce the best returns over time. So what does it actually mean when someone states that a stock is too expensive? The P/E ratio One of the methods investors use to evaluate a stock price is to calculate its price to earnings (P/E) ratio. This ratio compares the stock price against its per-share …

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