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There is one important metric, however, that hasn’t moved much as the rally has continued to rip higher: While prices have climbed, forward price-to-earnings ratios for semiconductors have hardly budged.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

Meanwhile, service revenue—a closely watched metric in the industry—grew 0.8% to 25.04 billion euros.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Investors watch PPI inflation closely because its readings feed into the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation metric, the price index of personal-consumption expenditures.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

The metric, which excludes share-based compensation, investment gains and losses and other items, is closely watched by analysts, as it reflects core business operation profitability.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons —an inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot