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ratio

noun as in percentage, relation of part to whole

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As McGraw explained, when the market sees major selling during a session, leveraged ETFs must rebalance by selling at the end of the trading day to keep target leverage ratios.

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Although the current rally has been powered by tech, and much has been made of the sky-high price/earnings ratios in that sector, defensives are hardly bargains.

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These ratios won’t be solidly on buy signals unless they roll over and begin to steadily trend lower.

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The company’s valuation is commensurate with other small-cap stocks, with shares trading at a forward 12-month price/earnings ratio of 32.

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A relatively low price-to-earnings ratio of 9 for a growing e-commerce company gives some indication of the lack of enthusiasm from investors over the initiative and the damage it could cause to profitability.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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