So in the case of Clear Capital, the company has its market analytics department, but it also boasts an on-the-ground in-house staff that crunches tens of thousands of real-time valuation reports across the country, looking at everything from broker price opinions to appraisals.
If MDT remains at this valuation for a long time, it can buy back 12% of the company year after year, and this in itself would result in 12% earnings growth.