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A common valuation mechanism is the ratio of a company's price to its measured or expected earnings. This is the PE ratio.

One problem with the PE ratio is that it's easy to manipulate reported earnings on a balance sheet, even while following generally accepted accounting practices. Other people like to use Free Cash Flow, which measures how much real money a company can actually produce in a year. That's much more accurate.

Beyond free cash flow, some people use a metric called owner earnings, which measures how much real money a business can return to its owners every year in the form of dividends, reinvestment in the company, or buying back stocks.

You can find a lot of information on these metrics online. PE is a decent first way to look at a company, but even doing some basic math for free cash flow will help you figure out whether a stock is wildly over- or underpriced.

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