ONE of the most fundamental ways of valuing companies is through the price-to-earnings (PE) ratio, which is essentially a multiple of the company’s annual profits.
Let’s say you are buying a bicycle shop that made a net profit of RM1mil last year. If you pay RM5mil for the shop, then you are paying a price equivalent to a PE ratio of five times.
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