Comments on: MSN Money vs. Yahoo Finance Quotes

By: Phantasmix

Phantasmix — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:05:57 +0000

Weirder and weirder 🙂

Well then which web site is more reliable? I guess the company’s web site and statements are the best bet.

By: Phantasmix

Phantasmix — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:04:52 +0000

Duc,
MSN is showing plain P/E (whatever that is) and Forward P/E, see screenshot above.

Neither of these P/E values match what Yahoo is showing, however EPS is very similar at both web sties, almost the same. I have to say that MSN’s calculations while may be correct, are confusing.

By: ducati998

ducati998 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:03:38 +0000

Kat,

In this case however [having just checked] relates to the actual earnings themselves.

MSN report Earnings + Extraordinary Items = Total $1340.6
Yahoo report Earnings excluding EI = Total $231.3

Obviously, such a large difference in reported earnings plays havoc with a P/E ratio.

jog on
duc

By: ducati998

ducati998 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:55:46 +0000

Kat,

There are many P/E ratios, past, present, and future [projected]. Just depends which one you want to use.

P/E ttm [trailing twelve months] has historical earnings. Projected earnings might well be lower, which would account for the higher P/E.

jog on
duc