Figures via Alpha Vantage, refreshed daily. — = not reported (funds have no P/E or price/book; P/E is blank when earnings are negative). Total return includes dividends.
1-year price performance
Price change only, rebased to the first day. Chart by TradingView, may be delayed.
What each number means
P/E ratio (TTM). Share price divided by the last twelve months of earnings per share. A higher P/E means investors are paying more for each dollar of current profit, often because they expect faster growth. It is blank when a company lost money, because a negative P/E is not meaningful.
Price / book. Market value divided by the accounting value of the company’s net assets. Asset-heavy businesses such as banks tend to trade near book value; software companies, whose value sits in code and customers rather than on the balance sheet, trade far above it.
Dividend yield. The last year of dividends as a percentage of today’s price. A yield that looks unusually high can be a warning sign that the market expects a cut.
1-year total return. Price change over roughly the last twelve months with dividends reinvested, so a high-yield fund is not penalized next to a growth stock.
Market cap / net assets. For a company, share price times shares outstanding. For an ETF, the total value of the assets the fund holds.
How to use a comparison
Compare like with like. Two chipmakers, two dividend ETFs, or a fund against its benchmark tell you something useful. A bank next to a software company mostly shows that they are different businesses. A low P/E is not automatically cheap, and a high one is not automatically expensive: check growth, debt, and whether earnings were boosted or hit by one-off items.
The chart above shows price change only, rebased to the same starting point, so the lines are directly comparable. The 1-year figure in the cards also counts dividends, which is why the two can differ for income-paying stocks and funds.
Where the data comes from
Figures come from Alpha Vantage and are refreshed about once a day. The chart is provided by TradingView and may be delayed. Always confirm figures in the company’s latest filings before you make a decision.