But its price-to-earnings ratio is 73, and its price-to-sales is 18.
So he is confident that Dollar General will maintain a 5% comparable-store sales gain largely due to its price advantage over Wal-Mart.
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What he made clear immediately, is that unlike the launch of its 3DS in 2011, Nintendo will not attempt to boost its sales by cutting the price anytime soon.
PetSmart is trading within its historically normal price-to-cash earnings and price-to-sales ranges as the market has finally rewarded PETM for its steady growth.
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Freeport McMoRan trades at a discount to its 3-year average price-to-sales ratio of 2.218.
It trades for 3.9 times sales, but its price-to-book-value ratio is just 1.2.
By changing to product segment reporting going forward, but not providing this information for the period just ended, we believe management is intentionally emphasizing declining PC sales in order to justify its inadequate buyout price.
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However, if the company finds its iPad sales unaffected due to competition, it may not feel compelled to decrease its price in the near term.
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It also sports a 37% discount to its average price-sales ratio over the past five years.
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But its shares are trading well off its peak price to sales ratio.
If the company can turn things around, its shares will enjoy substantial upside as the price-to-sales ratio becomes more closely matched with those of its peers.
At 11, its trailing-twelve-months PE ratio is low, as is its price-to-sales ratio.
Its price-to-sales multiple, 2.5 times, looks decent relative to 3.5 for imaging concern Getty Images.
Based on its price-to-sales multiple, Greenhill is approximately 16% undervalued using its trailing 12 months of sales.
Again, its price-to-sales ratio of 4.26 is at a premium to the peer group average of 0.70.
The O'Shaughnessy strategy likes that Hasbro's earnings per share have increased in each of the past five years, its price-to-sales ratio of 1.44 is below the 1.5 maximum allowed, and its relative strength is strong at 84.
Last week led Deutsche Bank to ease back on its share price target for Starbucks based upon potential loss of coffee sales to McDonald's.
Its present price-to-sales multiple of 2.7 stands well above a five-year average of 0.9.
Maybe Mr. Weiss is aware that American Greetings trades well below its average price-to-sales ratio for the past three years of 0.48.
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The growth was attributable to higher sales volume across all its industrial businesses, better price realizations and acquisitions.
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If OSI Shares fail to appreciate significantly on their own, Reid notes that the company, with its low price-to-earnings, sales and book value, would make an attractive takeover target.
The latest change came this month when Penney began adding back more sales events and putting price tags on half of its merchandise to show customers how much they're saving by shopping at Penney.
The industry frets that a greater supply of generic drugs will undermine its sales among those who can afford to pay the asking price in more developed places, such as South Africa, or even worse, in lucrative markets such as America or Europe, should generic drugs stray from their intended destinations.
The stock does trade on the low side of its historically normal ranges of price-to-sales and price-to-cash earnings.
We can understand the impact of a reduction in sales for First Solar on its share price using the estimated shipments to its customers outside the U.S. and Germany.
The bottom line: If Dell is not able to overcome its reputational issues, there could be a downside of 20% or more to its stock price due to weak hardware and service sales.
At Ockham, we currently have a Fairly Valued or neutral rating on JEF, as it traded within its historically normal range of price-to-sales and price-to-cash earnings as of our report to start the week.
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Say the company has a price-to-sales ratio of 0.7 while its peers have higher ratios of, say, 2.
The stock is trading within its historically normal ranges of both price-to-sales and price-to-cash earnings, so there is nothing particularly intriguing from a historical valuation standpoint.
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