I am not great at this but let me still try, pleas
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"Salesforce.com has a trailing-twelve-months P/E of 63.06X compared to the Computer - Software industry's P/E of 27.54X.
Price to Earnings Ratio or P/E is price x earnings. It is the most commonly used metric for determining a company's value relative to its earnings.
Note: This came up while I was responding to another long on the other board and he brought up EPS topic.