P/E

Price / net earnings

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Valuation — What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?

How it is worked out

Market capitalisation ÷ net income

The familiar multiple: the share price against the final profit behind each share. Unlike the enterprise-value measures it ignores debt and cash completely, so two companies with the same P/E can carry very different risk.

How to read it

the familiar one, and the weakest here: net income carries tax quirks and one-offs, and the multiple ignores the balance sheet

Which figures it needs

Computed from 1 figure taken from the filing:

The XBRL tags behind it

These are the element names looked for in a filing, in order. The first one a company reports is the one used, and the company page names which it was — so any figure here can be checked against the filing it came from.

Whether it counts

This measure is not counted by default. It can be added to Valuation on the dashboard, and it then takes its share of that dimension.