Like coupons, group discount buying will be subsumed into the retail tactics of every major retailer.
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Family Dollar Stores is one of a group of discount retailers that are proving being cheap pays in this economy.
Security analysts know next to nothing about the group, and some discount its claim.
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Last year, Mr Ebner spotted that shares in Investor were trading at a 30% discount to the group's theoretical net asset value.
Its price-to-book ratio of 1.49 is at a 15.8% discount to the peer group average of 1.77.
However, the price-to-free-cash-flow ratio looks attractive at 19.29x, a roughly 13.8% discount to the peer group average of 22.37x.
Shares of Digital Realty currently trade at 14.4x 12-month forward earnings, a 3.4% discount to the peer group average of 14.9x.
Shares of American Water Works currently trade at 16.89x 12-month forward earnings, an 8.8% discount to the peer group average of 18.53x.
Relative to its peer group, Coach is trading at a discount (64% cheaper) and is financially very strong as well as highly profitable.
Cigna says 82% of the dentists in its group dental network also participate in its discount plans and accept the same rate for both.
Supporters of the discount cards say that the group purchasing power of seniors will force drug companies to lower their prices -- the thinking is that the drug companies will want to get the business of a great number of seniors, and therefore will lower their prices to get their business.
An example is shopping mall developer Westfield Group, which fell to a 20% discount to NAV in 2011.
It also works the same way in reverse: if you have to lower your rate in order to compete, any new corporate or group business you get will have leverage to negotiate a deeper discount and lower rate for themselves.
As a group, the gold miners are trading at a historic extreme discount relative to the metals, meaning if you look at the stocks vs. gold or the stocks vs. silver, they are at an historic discount to those metals.
The outcome was that Argentaria's share of the new group, just under 30%, was determined at a slight discount to the level at which shares closed on October 18th.
This is the largest discount brokerage in the U.S. SCHW is trading down in tandem with the group.
The students who received the energy drink at a discount performed worse than both the students who received the drink at the full price and the control group.
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She said the group, which represents nurses, was pleased University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust had offered a last-minute discount to allow 180 off-island operations to go ahead in December.
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