trailing

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The level of pessimism has reached a point where tech’s trailing PEG is implying “future earnings will be much weaker and is as low as the trough after the tech bubble burst in 2003-05.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Still, the company’s price-to-earnings ratio on Thursday was about 61 times trailing 12 month earnings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

We see them appear out of the dark at speed to make the delicate manoeuvre to feed their fuel-hungry jets - locking on to a hose trailing from the tanker wing.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The Bruins weren’t prepared for the Blue Devils to be so prepared for them, trailing at the break for just the second time this season.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

Chasing after the president, Mary Todd Lincoln, followed by Clara Harris and Major Rathbone, with Laura Keene trailing close behind, burst into the boardinghouse.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson