Abstract

The main objective of this study is to investigate and analyze the relationship between the prices to earnings ratio with the return of adjusted stock through total risk of companies listed on the Stock Exchange market of Tehran in Iran. The main objective of any investment is to achieve higher efficiency. Investors in shares of listed companies on the exchange considered several factors. The price to earnings ratio, return and risk are the factors that investors should consider when they want to invest in them. Therefore 100 companies have been investigated during the period 2004-2008. To test the hypothesis we used the regression analysis and correlation, also the significant of patterns were determined by using F and T test and correlation coefficients. The results show that there is no significant relationship between the prices to earnings ratio and adjusted stock returns in the 95% confidence level.

Keywords:

Dividends per share, earnings per share, prices to earnings ratio, returns of each share, risk,

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