How does Yahoo Finance calculate Price/Earnings (avg. for comparison categories)?

Question

On the Yahoo finance analyst estimates page they show the Price/Earnings (avg. for comparison categories) e.g. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ae?s=ATHR shows 28.6

How do they calculate this field? Which they then use as an input in to PEG.

The current P/E for ATHR is 84.58 and the forward P/E is 23.92

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

You might need to give them a holler directly.

Here's how to get to a page to ask your question directly to Yahoo!

In Yahoo!Finance, at the top right of the page, there's a help link. Click on that to get your here

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/finance...

Then click on one of the links on the left like quote basics. Here's that page:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/finance...

Finally, at the bottom is the contact customer care button. Yes, it's convoluted, but that's one way to get there!

Oh, or just click here (if it works). (hard for me to test if it works since I clicked through to get there)

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/finance...

Once you get there and ask your question, they're pretty good at getting back to you, but you may have to ask/answer back and forth a couple of times.

Hope that helps!