Do you give P/E a lot of weight, or do you prefer to focus on other metrics?
P/E (price to earnings) is one of the most commonly tracked metrics when analyzing stocks, but sometimes I think it can be misleading and doesn't necessarily determine whether a stock is expensive or cheap. I do track this metric in my analysis, but it's certainly not the only factor I look at. There are much more important factors such as a company's financials, management, etc.
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I wouldn't give too much weight to this metric and would rather focus on the company's financial health, competitive advantage, management and then address these metrics.
Those are certainly more important things, but you just look at the price and those metrics first and then you deal with the other metrics.
I wouldn't take it too dogmatically, I would also look at P/S, P/CF and EV, I'm quite interested in PEG. If they are already at some friendly values, I look at margins, ROE, ROA, ROI. Very important is the EPS growth, which in the long term affects the growth of the stock.
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