Friday, July 15, 2016

Investment Word of the Day

Our investment term of the day is Price/Earnings To Growth or PEG Ratio.

What is the Price/Earnings To Growth: The price/earnings to growth ratio (PEG ratio) is a stock's price-to-earnings ratio divided by the growth rate of its earnings for a specified time period. The PEG ratio is used to determine a stock's value while taking the company's earnings growth into account, and is considered to provide a more complete picture than the P/E ratio. While a low P/E ratio may make a stock look like a good buy, factoring in the company's growth rate to get the stock's PEG ratio can tell a different story. The lower the PEG ratio, the more the stock may be undervalued given its earnings performance. The calculation is as follows:

P/E ratio ÷ Annual EPS Growth

Example: Google PEG ratio as of today is 1.9.

Baidu, Inc. ADR, Google's closest competitor PEG ratio is 3.2.


Which stock is more undervalued?
 


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