It would appear that they both could be correct. Yahoo uses fully diluted EPS including extraordinary expenses. A quick glance at the quarterly Income Statement for ALD shows a lot of extraordinary items must have been included it the 4th quarter last year.
See: http://finance.google.com/finance?fstype=ci&cid=657581 If QP's data excludes these items then the 8.02 P/E could well be correct. Just because numbers are different don't mean that QP or Yahoo either one are incorrect. Someone once said that accounting is an art not a science. --- In [email protected], "investor0329" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to QP, the TTM P/E for ALD (twelve month trailing) is 23.31. > > According to Yahoo, it is 8.02 !! > > This is a big difference...too big. > > Which one is correct? > > > http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=ALD >
