Which of the following statements is FALSE?

A. The most common valuation multiple is the price-earnings (P/E) ratio.

B. You should be willing to pay proportionally more for a stock with lower current earnings.

C. A firm's P/E ratio is equal to the share price divided by its earnings per share.

D. The intuition behind the use of the P/E ratio is that when you buy a stock, you are in sense buying the rights to the firm's future earnings and differences in the scale of the firms' earnings are likely to persist.