Trailing P/E

Trailing P/E - It is the ratio of the price/ earnings, they used it to show the most recently completed quarter of financial statements. Is a measuring tool to see the price of a stock or a bond and how it was sold and at what price to receive a related idea on what the projected earnings showed complied to what the price/ earrings showed in the completed quarters. The ratio looks like this the P/E ratio= top line is the price of the share; the bottom line is the annual earning per share. This gives an investor an idea is the share will be a high output or a low output in completed four quarters.