The PE Ratio (TTM), or Price-to-Earnings ratio, or P/E Ratio, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Earnings per Share (Diluted). As of today (2024-04-26), Constant Contact's share price is
$32.01.
Constant Contact's Earnings per Share (Diluted) for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2015 was $0.60. Therefore, Constant Contact's PE Ratio (TTM) for today is 53.35.
The historical rank and industry rank for Constant Contact's PE Ratio (TTM) or its related term are showing as below:
CTCT'
s PE Ratio (TTM) Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: At Loss Med: At Loss Max: At Loss
Current: At Loss
CTCT's PE Ratio (TTM) is not ranked
in the Media - Diversified industry.
Industry Median: 18.84
vs CTCT: At Loss
Constant Contact's EPS (Basic) for the
three
months ended in Sep. 2015 was $0.20.
Its EPS (Basic) for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2015 was $0.62.
Constant Contact PE Ratio (TTM) Historical Data
The historical data trend for Constant Contact's PE Ratio (TTM) can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Constant Contact's PE Ratio (TTM)
For the Advertising Agencies subindustry, Constant Contact's PE Ratio (TTM), along with its competitors' market caps and PE Ratio (TTM) data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Constant Contact's PE Ratio (TTM) Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry
For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Constant Contact's PE Ratio (TTM) distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Constant Contact's PE Ratio (TTM) falls into.
Constant Contact PE Ratio (TTM) Calculation
The PE Ratio (TTM), or Price-to-Earnings ratio, or P/E Ratio, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Earnings per Share (Diluted). It is the most widely used ratio in the valuation of stocks.
Constant Contact's Share Price of today is $32.01.
Constant Contact's Earnings per Share (Diluted) for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.60.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
There are at least three kinds of PE Ratio (TTM)s used by different investors. They are Trailing Twelve Month PE Ratio (TTM) or PE Ratio (TTM) (TTM), Forward PE Ratio, or PE Ratio without NRI. A new PE Ratio (TTM) based on inflation-adjusted normalized PE Ratio (TTM) is called Shiller PE Ratio, after Yale professor Robert Shiller.
In the calculation of PE Ratio (TTM), the earnings per share used are the earnings per share over the past 12 months. For Forward PE Ratio, the earnings are the expected earnings for the next twelve months. In the case of PE Ratio without NRI, the reported earnings less the non-recurring items are used.
For Shiller PE Ratio, the earnings of the past 10 years are inflation-adjusted and averaged. Since it looks at the average over the last 10 years, Shiller PE Ratio is also called PE10.
Constant Contact (NAS:CTCT) PE Ratio (TTM) Explanation
The PE Ratio (TTM) can be viewed as the number of years it takes for the company to earn back the price you pay for the stock. For example, if a company earns $2 a share per year, and the stock is traded at $30, the PE Ratio (TTM) is 15. Therefore it takes 15 years for the company to earn back the $30 you paid for its stock, assuming the earnings stays constant over the next 15 years.
In real business, earnings never stay constant. If a company can grow its earnings, it takes fewer years for the company to earn back the price you pay for the stock. If a company's earnings decline it takes more years. As a shareholder, you want the company to earn back the price you pay as soon as possible. Therefore, lower P/E stocks are more attractive than higher P/E stocks so long as the PE Ratio (TTM) is positive. Also for stocks with the same PE Ratio (TTM), the one with faster growth business is more attractive.
If a company loses money, the PE Ratio (TTM) becomes meaningless.
To compare stocks with different growth rates, Peter Lynch invented a ratio called PEG Ratio. PEG Ratio is defined as the PE Ratio (TTM) divided by the growth ratio. He thinks a company with a PE Ratio (TTM) equal to its growth rate is fairly valued. Still he said he would rather buy a company growing 20% a year with a PE Ratio (TTM) of 20, instead of a company growing 10% a year with a PE Ratio (TTM) of 10.
Because the PE Ratio (TTM) measures how long it takes to earn back the price you pay, the PE Ratio (TTM) can be applied to the stocks across different industries. That is why it is the one of the most important and widely used indicators for the valuation of stocks.
Investors need to be aware that the PE Ratio (TTM) can be misleading a lot of times, especially when the underlying business is cyclical and unpredictable. As Peter Lynch pointed out, cyclical businesses have higher profit margins at the peaks of the business cycles. Their earnings are high and PE Ratio (TTM)s are artificially low. It is usually a bad idea to buy a cyclical business when the PE Ratio (TTM) is low. A better ratio to identify the time to buy a cyclical businesses is the PS Ratio .
PE Ratio (TTM) can also be affected by non-recurring-items such as the sale of part of businesses. This may increase for the current year or quarter dramatically. But it cannot be repeated over and over. Therefore PE Ratio without NRI is a more accurate indication of valuation than PE Ratio (TTM).
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Constant Contact (Constant Contact) Business Description
Constant Contact Inc was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1995 under the name Roving Software Incorporated. The Company provides online marketing tools that are designed for small organizations, including small businesses, associations and non-profits. Its suite of online marketing tools, which include Email Marketing, EventSpot, Social Campaigns, SaveLocal, SinglePlatform and Survey, enable its customers to launch and monitor marketing campaigns across multiple channels, including email, social media, events, local deals, online listings and surveys. Its customers include various types of small organizations including retailers, restaurants, law and accounting firms, consultants, non-profits, religious organizations and alumni associations. Its email marketing product allows customers to easily create, send and track professional-looking email campaigns. The product includes a campaign creation wizard that makes it easy to create and edit email campaigns with access to over 300 pre-designed email campaign templates that reflect a wide variety of themes and styles and over 15 million images through its relationship with Bigstock, a subsidiary of Shutterstock, Inc. The Company also offers market leading free tools and applications that allow customers to add and update contacts, including adding contacts directly from a computer or point of sale device. Its event marketing product allows its customers to promote and manage events, communicate with invitees and registrants, capture and track registrations and collect online payments. The Company's social media products include Social Campaigns, which empowers customers to reach and engage users on Facebook to grow their fans and create social word-of-mouth through easy-to-create offers and promotions. SaveLocal provides service to its customers to retain existing customers and attract new customers by creating, running and managing local deals, and provides them with end-to-end control over their deals at an affordable price. The Company's online survey product enables its customers to survey their customers or members and analyze responses. SinglePlatform provides its customers the power to manage all of their key online listings from one place by helping them to create a content rich digital storefront, which can include menus, photos, services, offers and featured products. As of December 31, 2013, the Company served a large and diverse group of approximately 595,000 unique paying customers. Its Social Campaigns product competes with offerings by Offerpop Corporation, Pagemodo, a subsidiary of VistaPrint N.V., Vocus Social Media LLC doing business as North Social and Wildfire Interactive, Inc. Its SaveLocal product competes with offerings by Groupon, Inc., LivingSocial, Inc., Amazon Local and Google Offers. Its SinglePlatform product competes with offerings by Yext, Inc. and Locu Inc., a subsidiary of GoDaddy.com, LLC. Its survey product competes with offerings by Surveymonkey.c
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