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@harmonius It’s fwd p/e. So nvda’s next 12 months of earnings are equal to its last 12 months of sales?

@harmonius I’m not calculating anything.

@harmonius The examples are real stocks I pulled from publicly available sources. Those are the real values. I didn’t use the stock ticker because I thought it would cause some bias. I’m legitimately trying to figure this out.

@harmonius So what would you conclude?

@god2good4me I’m not comparing fwd p/e with ttm p/e. I’m comparing fwd p/e with p/s. There is an interesting relationship between the latter that I wanted to explore more, get some thoughtful discussion going, see if it lead somewhere.

@god2good4me Yes fwd. I mention fwd in the post. So I’m assuming fwd in all discussion.

@harmonius NVDA has the same fwd p/e and p/s right now.

@patrice True but that’s just factoring p/e from the question. I’m curious about what the relation between the two are trying to say in this thought experiment?

@patrice What would you conclude about… equal p/e and p/s? High p/e low p/s?

@welshchild Right. How many times have you seen that dynamic play out in the market though?

@ladykay I’ve come to the same conclusion. Very interesting to see what the numbers are trying to say.

@ladykay Thank you very much. This is of value to me. Question: why would a stock have the same p/e and p/s? Is it a multitude of factors like what you said about accounting/deferred rev/bookings etc. -have you seen same p/e p/s stocks before? How did they play out if so.

I remember in 2019 when markets pundits started using p/s to value stocks because they couldn’t justify stocks going up with no earnings. Obviously they were reaching as we look at the current market environment and how p/e came back in favor very quickly to justify why one stock goes up and...