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Financial ratios are relationships determined from a company’s financial information and used for comparison purposes. Examples include such often referred to measures as return on investment (ROI), ...

The P/E ratio is one of the most popular stock market ratios, but it has some serious flaws that investors should know about.

Personal finance ratios can help you understand where you're at and where you need to improve. Gauge your progress by tracking your emergency fund ratio, basic housing ratio, overall debt-to-income ...

Analysts have many ways to determine if a stock’s price is cheap or expensive, relative to its performance. One way to measure this is the price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E ratio. Put simply, the P/E ...

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Financial ratios express relationships between financial statement items. Although they provide historical data, management can use ratios to identify internal strengths and weaknesses, and estimate ...

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There are dozens of financial ratios and their meanings help business owners evaluate the financial health of a company. Financial ratios can be broken into six key areas of analysis: liquidity, ...