The S&P 500’s forward price-to-earnings ratio, a common metric for valuing stocks, is at 16.8 times earnings – far below the nearly 22 times forward P/E that stocks commanded at the start of the year.
Wall Street shares close up as megacap tech stocks rally
Investors cheered Alphabet’s first-ever dividend, its $70 billion stock buyback program, and better-than-expected first-quarter results. Its shares jumped 10% and reached a record high, lifting