ratio

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It’s “exceedingly unusual” for the ratio to fall to 1.0x, and this month it has dropped below that level to 0.8x, he said, as highlighted in the chart below.

From MarketWatch

Its price-to-earnings ratio, for instance, at 24 times is the most expensive in emerging markets and is second only to the U.S.’s at almost 27 times.

From MarketWatch

“The oil/silver price ratio points to silver being in a speculative bubble and/or oil being excessively out of favor,” Colas wrote, adding that silver prices are likely the more distorted of the two.

From Barron's

These ratios are calculated by dividing a stock market’s level by component companies’ trailing 10 years’ inflation-adjusted earnings.

From MarketWatch

Silver bulls said the current gold-to-silver price ratio of about 60 could shrink significantly—meaning silver prices rise relative to gold prices—before it approaches the roughly 30 reached during silver’s 2011 price spike.

From The Wall Street Journal