And there are literally hundreds of examples like that in the data, often differences in multiples of five or ten or 20 or 40.
Since the charge comes in small multiples of the charge on an electron, it is easy to account for.
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The result: a quiet long-term decline, in the multiples of branded-food biggies like General Mills, ConAgra ( CAG) and Kraft ( KFT).
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When confronted, Miller falsely claimed that he had made a mistake in ordering many multiples of what was written in a client's order, authorities said.
Dick May, managing director of American Working Capital, a private equity firm in Los Angeles and Chicago, said the family that founded American Greetings is taking advantage of low multiples in an out-of-favor industry, as well as inexpensive debt financing to bet on its future.
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The first of our three stock screens selected companies in the Worldscope database whose prices today are at historically low multiples of earnings, cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation) and book value.
In most cases, public markets value companies, including hotel owners, in terms of multiples of their cash flow or earnings.
Any new electronic gadget had to be the best and newest, and he collected objects in multiples, regardless of price, from radios to construction equipment.
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In fact, we later discovered the fund had lost multiples of that amount in a scheme involving a corrupt financial adviser.
The inability of a bank in a 100% reserve system to lend multiples of the value of my gold places a natural and desirable limit on the demands for goods and services beyond those matching my deferred consumption.
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Our valuation estimates are based on multiples of revenue in 2011, the last completed season.
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Oberweis follows his father's philosophy of buying profitable companies in the early stages of earnings acceleration to capture gains in earnings per share and an expansion of price-earnings multiples as investors catch on to a company's growth and become willing to pay more for it.
Goldman Sachs ( GS) and Morgan Stanley ( MS) and other investment banks, of course, tend over time to trade at lower multiples because of the risk inherent in their business model (including being funded by hot money).
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There will always be a huge gap in team values because telecommunications companies like Rogers and Bell Canada can leverage the media rights for the Maple Leafs multiples of what Stillman can command in media fees for the Blues.
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Fund manager says there are chances to make multiples of your money in these European stocks.
In spite of these seemingly insane multiples, we heard from a number of brokers that retail investors were clamoring for Facebook shares.
The extraordinarily good performance of the US economy in recent years has owed much to new technology, as Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan never tires of repeating - and to public confidence in that technology - hence the astonishing multiples at which many of the new tech companies still trade.
The important question, however, may be how it is that Lloyds and the other big banks are allowed to lend such large multiples of their protective capital in the form of mortgages?
The stock's multiples of earnings, cash flow (in the sense of net plus depreciation) and book value all stand at discounts to their respective five-year averages.
After all, what destroyed the Nifty Fifty in 1973-74 was not lofty multiples but a combination of rising inflation and the deep recession that collapsed earnings.
The lesson, at the end of the day, is this: When looking at lists of companies selling in the market at low multiples to cash flow or earnings, investors must discriminate.
The stock also looks relatively less expensive according to the price-to-sales, price-to-cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation) and enterprise multiples.
Each of these four choices could show substantial variation in multiples.
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Both multiples are far lower than those of smaller lenders in India and Indonesia that are perceived to have better growth prospects or less suspect accounts.
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But because they were so equity capital efficient, the return multiples could easily be in the top 1-5% of all venture deals in the vintage should the milestones deliver.
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In the nineteen-sixties, the sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote a famous essay on scientific discovery in which he raised the question of what the existence of multiples tells us about genius.
He advises buying when pharma is trading at low multiples of earnings, sales, cash flow (in the sense of earnings before interest, depreciation, taxes and amortization but before capital spending) or all three.
Back in September, Apple traded at what then seemed like unbelievably low multiples of 10.5x forward earnings (less cash).
Investors, in their more rational moments, say the high price-earnings multiples of red chips, often two or three times those of blue chips, are justified by the prospects of economic growth on the mainland.
And there are numerous examples of audit firms still earning at least as much of their fees from audit clients, or multiples of their audit fees, from what were, in my mind, supposed to be prohibited services to those companies.
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