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>>> The worst thing you could do is have a denominator in your price-to-earnings ratio that's greater than zero, because then your ratio would be positive, assuming your stock hasn't gone to zero yet.

I've always wondered why folks don't use earnings-to-price ratio instead, which goes smoothly through zero instead of behaving, well, hyperbolically.




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