diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index 0d74346d21a..484080dd5b6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -a::
         system-wide collection
 
--S::
+-c::
         scale counter values
 
 EXAMPLES
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index f9510eeeb6c..b4b06c7903e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
 		    "stat events on existing pid"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all-cpus", &system_wide,
 		    "system-wide collection from all CPUs"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('S', "scale", &scale,
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('c', "scale", &scale,
 		    "scale/normalize counters"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 		    "be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)"),