Amazon’s price-to-earnings ratio is now 2,767. Apple’s is 13

November 3, 2012 Posted By: Leave a comment
The discrepancy in how the market values the two companies is too big to graph

FORTUNE -- The ratio of share price to annual earnings -- usually expressed as P/E or simply PE -- is the simplest and most widely used metric to gauge the relative value of a pair of companies.

Case in point: Apple (AAPL) and...

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