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No, P/E being high means the stock market thinks the company's income will grow by a lot in the future. The price may go up or down as those expectations for the future change (a high P/E stock can announce record profits and have the stock go down, if in fact the stock was being priced on the expectation that the profits would be higher than announced).



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