The price-earnings ratio

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?


A) the most common valuation multiple is the price-earnings ratio

B) you should be willing to pay proportionally more for a stock with lower current earrings

C) a firm's price-earnings ratio is equal to the share prive divided by its earnings per share

D) the intuition behind the use of the price-earnings ratio is that when you buy a stock, you are in a sense buying the rights to the firm's future earnings, and differences in the scale of firm's earnings are likely to persist.

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