Why doesn’t PE ratio take into account balance sheet risk?

I heard that one of the reasons why EV to EBITDA is superior to PE ratio is the fact that it takes into account balance sheet risk. However, I don’t see how this is the case considering the fact that a person needs to subtract interest payments to arrive at the net income that is needed to calculate PE ratio, whereas you don’t need to subtract interest payments to arrive at the EBITDA that is needed to calculate the EV to EBITDA ratio. Therefore, shouldn’t it be the other way around in the sense that PE ratio considers balance sheet risk and EV to EBITDA does not?

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