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DJIA P/E: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is the oldest and probably the most well-known stock market index. It is a price-weighted index, which means that its component stocks carry different weights proportional to their stock prices. In the following Table I have given you the investment weights for DJIA component stocks. Please use Yahoo ! Finance to find out their consensus projected EPS for Next Year and fill in the table.

stocks	Weight (%)	Projected EPS in $	Weight * EPS
MMM	5.75
AXP	3.1
AAPL	4.56
BA	5.28
CAT	3.09
CVX	3.27
CSCO	1.05
KO	1.59
DIS	4.12
DD	2.08
XOM	3.04
GE	1
GS	7.62
HD	4.71
IBM	5.98
INTC	1.15
JNJ	3.8
JPM	2.59
MCD	3.84
MRK	2.18
MSFT	1.76
NKE	4.52
PFE	1.3
PG	2.86
TRV	4.02
UTX	3.7
UNH	4.68
VZ	1.86
V	2.88
WMT	2.62

What is DJIAs EPS (please use weighted average, i.e. multiply the numbers in the second and third columns of the above table and add up.)? And what is its P/E ratio (based its closing price of 21987.56 on September 1st, 2017?

DJIA EPS (sum of the last column) =

DJIA forward P/E =

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