How to figure out PE Multiple?

I want to invest in stocks. How and where would i find Earnings and company Growth Rate of a given company? Thanks

Yahoo!Finance is my drug of choice for this information.
Enter in the company's ticker symbol and this information will be present in three categories:
Competitors: will show this information relative to its peers
Key Statistics: will show this information in conjunction to other key metrics
Analysts Estimates: This will give this information for the year coming (which is far more important that last years information. You can't move forward if you are looking back. You want to know where a company is headed, not where it has been.)

My suggestion, never buy a stock where its multiple is more than twice is expected earnings.

go to the companies website
look at the financial statements until you find the earnings amount
write it down

go to your local paper and look up the current price of that stock...write it down

divide the price by the earnings to get the ratio.

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