Highest and Lowest P/Es of the S&P 500 Companies: Average is 40.99

Here are the price/earnings ratios of the S&P500 companies as of EOD May 22, with P/Es provided by Google Finance

Lowest P/Es:



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Highest P/Es (and positive only):




Note that the above tables only compute the P/Es of the companies with positive earnings. The average of these is 40.99. Note that there are 114 companies with negative earnings. If these are computed, the average P/E would be in the hundreds.

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