Comment by fallingfrog

Wait, the median P/E is three times higher than the average? That does not sound right. Because the P/E cannot go below zero, the ability of a small number of stocks to throw the average off is limited.. In fact I can't think of any way for the average to be more than twice the median, even if half the stocks (minus one) had a P/E of zero. How would that work, mathematically?