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Brian Feroldi Joins Us to Give Us 8 Reasons the P/E Ratio Sucks

The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

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How to Calculate the PE Ratio of a Company

The rules of accounting changed a few years ago. Companies that own publicly traded stock in other companies now have to mark up their net income when those investments go up in value and down when they lose value. So if you look at the earnings of Shopify, they went down dramatically in 2022 simply because Affirm's stock went down in 2022. And this is now happening with lots of companies. Berkshire Hathaway owns lots of publicly traded companies. Google owns publicly tradedCompanies. Amazon has a huge position in a company called Rivian. What's the best way to get started in the market? Download Andrew's ebook for free at stockmarketpdf.com.

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