PE Ratios, PEG Ratios, and Estimating the Implied Expected Rate of Return on Equity Capital

Accounting Review

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-95

  Easton, Peter D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost of capital; Earnings forecasts; Earnings growth; PE ratio; PEG ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342330573     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2004.79.1.73     Document Type: Review

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