The most valuable indicators in the Continental telecom group, according to White, are price to cash flow, dividend yield and price to book.

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Its price-to-book ratio of 2.2x and dividend yield of 2.3 percent make it a relatively expensive market.

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In my Greenblatt model, I calculate return on capital and earnings yield in the same ways that Greenblatt lays out in his book.

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It has a 4% dividend yield and sells at 50% of revenue and 70% of book.

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The stock sells at 70% of book value and has a 5.1% dividend yield.

FORBES: The Old Normal

Even if the Russian archives were to yield everything they contain about the American names that so tantalisingly surface in his book, other questions would remain unanswered.

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Portfolios would still be chock-a-block with loans that yield no interest and shares that cannot be sold because their sale would force banks to book a loss.

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It trades at 15 times trailing earnings, 1.2 times book value and 4 times cash flow, with a 3.7% dividend yield.

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