He notes that the stock continues to trade at a discount to its peers, such as Kroger (KR) and Safeway (SWY) based on p-e ratios and price-to-EBITDA (earnings beforeinterest, taxes, depreciationandamortization) multiples.
Various costs are subtracted from the revenues to calculate various progressively smaller measures of profit and loss: gross income, net income, EBITDA(earnings beforeinterest, taxes, depreciationandamortization), taxable income, etc.