Value
Is the stock cheap or expensive relative to what it actually earns?
Value asks one question: how much are you paying for a dollar of this company's earnings? The same $50 stock can be cheap or expensive purely depending on how much profit sits behind it — value metrics strip price down to that comparison.
InsiderWolf's live Value score on every ticker page is scored from P/E (TTM), Forward P/E, and PEG Ratio. Lower multiples score higher: a P/E below 15 or PEG below 1 reads as Excellent; a P/E above 60 reads as Poor.
A P/E of 20 means you're paying $20 for every $1 of the company's trailing annual profit.
Adjusts P/E for growth — a P/E of 30 looks expensive alone, but a PEG near 1 says the market thinks growth justifies it.
A common beginner mix-up is treating a lower share price as automatically "cheaper." P/E is what actually answers that question, and it can invert the intuition completely.
Stock A trades at $50/share with $2.50 of trailing annual earnings per share — a P/E of 20. Stock B trades at $200/share with $4 of earnings per share — a P/E of 50. Despite A's much lower sticker price, B is the more expensive stock on a per-dollar-of-earnings basis. Share price by itself says nothing about valuation without dividing it by what the company actually earns.
- A low P/E isn't automatically "cheap and good" — it can also mean the market expects earnings to fall. Value is one lens, not the whole picture.
- Comparing P/E across industries is misleading — a capital-light software company and a capital-heavy utility trade at structurally different multiples for real, permanent reasons.
- PEG tries to fix P/E's biggest blind spot (growth) but is only as reliable as the growth estimate feeding it.