Associated British Foods Stock Price To Earning

ASBFF Stock  USD 28.35  1.90  6.28%   
Associated British Foods fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Associated British's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Associated Pink Sheet. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Associated British's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Associated British pink sheet.
  
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Associated British Foods Company Price To Earning Analysis

Associated British's Price to Earnings ratio is typically used for current valuation of a company and is one of the most popular ratios that investors monitor daily. Holding a low PE stock is less risky because when a company's profitability falls, it is likely that earnings will also go down as well. In other words, if you start from a lower position, your downside risk is limited. There are also some investors who believe that low Price to Earnings ratio reflects the low pricing because a given company is in trouble. On the other hand, a higher PE ratio means that investors are paying more for each unit of profit.

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Current Associated British Price To Earning

    
  20.53 X  
Most of Associated British's fundamental indicators, such as Price To Earning, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Associated British Foods is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Generally speaking, the Price to Earnings ratio gives investors an idea of what the market is willing to pay for the company's current earnings.
Competition

Based on the latest financial disclosure, Associated British Foods has a Price To Earning of 20.53 times. This is 2.1% lower than that of the Consumer Defensive sector and 17.88% lower than that of the Packaged Foods industry. The price to earning for all United States stocks is 28.52% higher than that of the company.

Associated Price To Earning Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Associated British's direct or indirect competition against its Price To Earning to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the pink sheets which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Associated British could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Associated British by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Associated British is currently under evaluation in price to earning category among its peers.

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About Associated British Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Associated British Foods's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Associated British using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Associated British Foods based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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Associated British financial ratios help investors to determine whether Associated Pink Sheet is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Associated with respect to the benefits of owning Associated British security.