Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 47

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) The intuition behind the use of the price-earnings ratio is that when you buy a share, you are in a sense buying the rights to the firm's future earnings, and differences in the scale of firms'
• Earnings are likely to persist.
• B) You should be willing to pay proportionally more for a share with lower current earnings.
• C) A firm's price-earnings ratio is equal to the share price divided by its earnings per share.
• D) The most common valuation multiple is the price-earnings ratio.

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