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Monday, July 9, 2007

Importance of Stock PEG Ratio

Stock PEG (Price/Earnings to Growth) is one of the most popular stock market indices used to figure our tradable stocks. The stock PEG ratio is certainly more important to value investors who want to figure out good undervalued stocks with greater profit providing abilities.

Stock PEG ratio is a comparison of the stocks P/E (Price to Earning) ratio with the growth rate of the stock. That is

Stock PEG = (P/E)/Growth

The growth rate can be of annual or of six or three months, according to which the trader can design a short or long term strategy. The lesser the value of the stock PEG the greater the stock is preferable. If the value is well lower to 1, the stock is undervalued and good for trade. If the value is around or beyond 2 then is considered overvalued and not so good for trading.

Although PEG ratio itself is a good indicator of the profit potential of a stocks, it is not risk-free as it employees the assumed values or figured out averages. The better results can be obtained from employing stock PEG with other technical analysis tools.

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