The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...

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Any investor who has purchased or has considered purchasing shares of Google and YouTube parent company Alphabet Inc. (ticker: GOOG, GOOGL) in recent years has likely noticed there are two paths ...