Tech: All it’s Cracked Up to P/E?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
We discuss the P/E ratio and what it implies. Premium analyst Simon Erickson joins the show to explain how some Fools’ mentality towards the metric is different than most investors.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Industry Focus is brought to you by a Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. |
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| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every |
| 0:18.2 | day. |
| 0:19.2 | It's Friday, June 3rd and we're talking tech and PE ratios. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm your host, Dylan Lewis, and I'm joined in studio by Motley Fool Premium |
| 0:25.2 | analyst Simon Erickson. |
| 0:26.2 | Simon, how's it going? |
| 0:27.2 | Hey, pretty good. |
| 0:28.2 | Thanks for having me, Dylan. |
| 0:28.8 | It's great to have you. |
| 0:29.4 | So you said before we did the show, this is the first time that you've been on |
| 0:31.9 | industry focus. I believe it is. I find that hard to believe because you are so |
| 0:35.1 | every time I see you walking around the office like you're like coming back from like a |
| 0:38.2 | supernova shoot or you know like doing some video work here you're on a |
| 0:42.2 | couple different premium products right? |
| 0:43.8 | That's right work on the the Supernova Explorer missions for that service and |
| 0:47.9 | then also for the million dollar portfolio so really glad to be here. |
| 0:50.6 | Yeah and just for your own kind of investing background, you are a very tech-focused guy, right? |
| 0:55.1 | I mean, you're kind of that rule breaker mindset that we have here at the pool. |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah, and when we say rule breaker, we're looking for innovative companies. |
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