Key ratio is the name given to any financial ratio that's considered particularly effective at measuring, illustrating, and summarizing a company's financials in relation to its competitors or peers.

As explained in this Edraw article, every data visual has one of the five key objectives—distribution, composition, relationship, trend and comparison. • Distribution: The visuals show how ...

Because of the unique requirements for bringing products to market, pharmaceutical industry stocks are best analyzed using certain key financial ratios.

"A key ratio for investors going into 2023 is the price-to-earnings ratio," says Jonathan Elliott, managing partner with wealth management firm Optima Capital Management.

This article is written for those who want to get better at using price to earnings ratios (P/E ratios). To keep it practical, we'll show how KeyCorp's (NYSE:KEY) P/E ratio could help you assess ...