Newcastle scores highly for worklife balance, the environment and its house
price-to-earnings ratio, though it is still in the bottom group nationally for health and income.
To correct for some of the problems with using the forward P/E ratio, Yale economist Robert Shiller created a new metric: the Cyclically Adjusted
Price-to-Earnings Ratio (CAPE).
For example, Basu (1977) studied the high
price-to-earnings ratio stocks and low
price-to-earnings ratio stocks, and found that the high
price-to-earnings ratio stocks generated lower returns than the market while the low
price-to-earnings ratio stocks generated higher returns.
That's a greater
price-to-earnings ratio than all except three companies in the S&P 500, according to data.
The company's "
price-to-earnings ratio" is 15.6, compared with 16.1 for the S&P 500 overall.
P/E, short for
price-to-earnings ratio, is a quick way to compare stocks by dividing the price of the stock by the company's earnings.
Pendle in Lancashire had the lowest house
price-to-earnings ratio at 3.5, followed by North Ayrshire in Scotland and Blaenau Gwent in Wales at 3.6.
"A bank like BNP Paribas trades at four times expected earnings for 2012, while in our worst-case scenario for next year, we get a
price-to-earnings ratio of 7-8...
Qatar's stock market showed attractive valuations, with the
price-to-earnings ratio standing at 10.6 percent, below that of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and broader emerging markets, he added.
We characterize a stock as having "reasonable valuation" if its
price-to-earnings ratio or other valuation metrics (such as price to sales, stock price to book value, and stock price to cash flow) are below historical ranges for the stock, below that of its peers, and are reasonable relative to the company's earnings growth potential.
East Capital Explorer invests at a valuation corresponding to a price-to-book ratio of 1.0 and a
price-to-earnings ratio of 6.5.