Apple Computer's P/E Ratio?

When determining the value of a company, do more than simply taking the absolute number. For this purpose, you can do some comparison with other technology companies, such as Microsoft, Dell etc. How'are their PE ratios compared to Apple. Also, look at the historical PE ratios for Apple. From this, hopefully you can make your own judgment as to whether Apple stock is too expensive.

I show there EPS (ttm) as just over $25 which puts their P/E (ttm) at about 15.5.

Their forward P/E based on earnings expectations for the next twelve months indicates a P/E of just over 12. That seems very cheap to me.

Here is an article that explains P/E very well and also happens to have the numbers (EPS and P/E for Apple for July 22, 2011) and a link as well.

http://familymanfinance.blogspot.com/

It's a perfect company. Of course it's expensive. I'm not buying (but I would never short either).

It's not expensive when its growing like crazy. The p/e is on yahoo finance, it's 15.56