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2015/02/02 06:44:04
Subject: Does P/E Ratio mean the same thing in the UK
I was just looking at GW's stock chart and fundamentals on Yahoo finance. Their P/E is outrageously terrible: 2,335. Plus their stock price fell like 20% in 7 days in Jan 2014. Jumpin Jesus! They still have the same CEO?! WTF?!
If an american company did that it would be time for the guilotines.
Someone care to weigh in on a P:E in the 2000s?
G
2015/02/02 08:11:32
Subject: Does P/E Ratio mean the same thing in the UK
I *think* there is a fundamental error in the Yahoo P/E calculation.
EPS is £0.22.
Market Cap is £161.47M
Share Price is £5.05
That means there's roughly 32M shares in issue (161M divided by 5). Which would make the EPS # work back to about £7M profit which sounds about right (I haven't memorised the latest numbers).
£7M on a market cap of £161.47M is a P/E of about 23 - high, but believable - I think somewhere in yahoo's formula they've mucked up a decimal point (well 2 actually).
