These stocks also traded at a trailing 12-month price-to-earnings multiple below their five-year averages.
Sherwin-Williams ( SHW - news - people ) has a better price-to-forward-earnings multiple.
The forward earnings multiple of 15x is nearly at an equal discount to the 20x industry average.
Meanwhile, Mulholland says, Caterpillar could easily expand its earnings multiple to 12 times from 8 times today.
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Even amid a global search for oil alternatives, it's hard to justify GSE's trailing earnings multiple of 160.
In addition, its average price-earnings multiple since 2008 has been 17.72 times earnings.
Yes, you can see the current situation of lots of cash, a low price-earnings multiple, name recognition, enterprise usage.
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That compares with a price-to-earnings multiple of about 18 for the U.S. market.
Honda's shares trade on a paltry (in Japanese terms) price-earnings multiple of 28.
And, says retail analyst Bakay, there would be a higher earnings multiple.
The forward earnings multiple of 15x is much closer to the 22x industry average, but still trading at a discount.
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If the turnaround in Las Vegas continues and Macau stays hot, future profits will justify the current high earnings multiple.
That, in turn, could damage the price-earnings multiple that investors are willing to pay for their shares, raising banks' cost of capital.
Measured against McEvoy's estimate, the company trades at 21 times 2007 earnings, versus a price-to-earnings multiple of 14 for the consensus number.
We applied the average price-to-earnings multiple of the parent company to the net brand earnings number to arrive at a brand value.
Its hot price-to-earnings multiple of 72 is irrelevant--skewed by projects under construction.
As a result, its shares now sell at a modest 14 times latest-12-month profits, vs. a five-year average earnings multiple of 19.
Investors are not paying IBM the earnings multiple it deserves, contends Subramanian.
The problem was valuation which ratcheted to a price-earnings multiple near 30.
Its hot price-to-earnings multiple of 70 is irrelevant--skewed by projects under construction.
These are spectacular figures, especially when one considers this is five times the similar earnings multiple of Google and seven times that of Apple.
The current price-to-cash earnings multiple is neither particularly high or particularly low based on fiscal 2010 estimates (predicting full year profits double) at 12.1x.
Analyst Heath Terry at fbr Capital Markets looks for Activision to earn 79 cents a share in 2010 and thinks it deserves an earnings multiple of 20.
Over the past ten years, Coke has historically fetched a price-to-cash earnings multiple of between 17.3x and 24.5x, and it is currently less than 16x.
For example, RIMM has normally traded for a price-to-cash earnings multiple of 15.3x to 43.4x, but the current metric falls below that range at 14.8x.
It trades at a forward price-to-earnings multiple of 14, compared with 16 for rival Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ).
Shares of Pfizer are trading for 12 times projected earnings for the next 12 months, way down from their price-to-earnings multiple of nearly 20 just a year ago.
Despite having much more room to grow in China, Netease trades at 27 times estimated 2004 earnings, compared with the forward price-to-earnings multiple of 74 enjoyed by Yahoo!
The SME board now has 588 listed companies with a total market value of RMB 3.1 trillion that trade at an average price earnings multiple of 34.7 times.
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