What does PER stand for?

Price-to-Earnings Ratio

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The stock trades at a trailing price-to-earnings ratio of 8, a discount to the market and oil and gas drilling peers.

United States : Transocean Is Upgraded to Buy

ANALYST TAKE: Some analysts see Hershey's higher-than-average price-to-earnings ratio compared to other packaged-food companies as being driven by expectations of a buyout by Cadbury or a larger company, such as Nestle.

Earnings Preview: The Hershey Co

The deal may lure investors back to bank shares trading at a 67 per cent discount to their five-year average price-to-book ratio and a 48 per cent discount to the average price-to-earnings ratio, Credit Suisse's Hawa wrote.

Banks Boost Saudi Shares to 11-month High

Price-to-earnings ratios have been plummeting nationwide, while New York, long touted as a market unto itself, is also seeing a slump.

Sales vs. rent values: Boring fundamentals back in vogue

Chinese shares are expensive by almost any measure, including a price-to-earnings ratio of 69 times last year's earnings on the Shanghai market, compared with 18 for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock benchmark index today.

Fear and hope rise with China's stocks

I tend to be very methodical when it comes to buying companies: looking at how long the company's been around, if it's a growing industry, assessing its cash flows and price-to-earnings ratio, and also determining whether the company has run into money problems or legal problems.

Open for business: Gerald Loftin says don't fret about market ...

The average price-to-earnings ratio of stocks in Small Cap Growth was 20.

Unloved stocks lift Eaton Vance small-cap fund; Mutual-fund spotlight

Hansen's price-to-earnings ratio topped out at roughly 60 to 1 in late May, but earlier this month it was still in the 50 to 1 range.

Hansen stock hummers as sales growth continues