Though London's current price-earnings ratio of 15 sounds quite reasonable, Norwich Union's Mr Lis points out that most past bear markets have ended with ratios in single figures.
Maintaining the current franchised to company-owned ratio of 80%, there would be 32, 400 franchise units and 8, 100 company owned units by 2019.
Similarly, the current price-to-sales ratio of .49x is equal to the low end of its range established over the last ten years (.49x to .72x).
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Moreover, most analysts compute the simple price-rent ratio by comparing the prices of current for-sale listings or recent sales to the prices of current rental listings.
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While we were somewhat conflicted, given that the shares now trade for 12 times book value, in the end we decided to hold on a while longer as the current price-to-sales ratio of less than two is quite low for this sector, and we have previously sold Avanex on two separate occasions at much higher prices.
The balance sheet must be strong with a current ratio above 1.0 and a debt-to-equity ratio below 50%.
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With a current-year price-to-earnings ratio just above 10 and a projected five-year growth rate of 10.8%, Scotts sells at a discount to anticipated growth.
The economist makes the argument that post-crisis GDP growth rates are about 11.9% off of historical standards, which, along with the employment-to-population ratio, suggest the current macroeconomic environment is a lot more challenging than in other recessions and will need the intervention of government to recover.
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The company pays a 2% dividend, the current ratio is 1.8 and long-term debt-to-equity is .39.
The current ratio is 2.7 and long-term debt-to-equity is .14.
They want the firms to give 90% of it to policyholders, the same ratio that applies to current earnings of with-profits funds.
Stated more clearly, their current PE ratio is approximately the same as their expected long-term earnings growth rate.
After eliminating these sales from the insider sell-to-buy ratio, Mr. Seyhun found that current insider behavior is right in line with its average level of the past 10 years, with implications for the overall market that are no worse than neutral.
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This ratio compares the current market price to its trailing 12-month reported earnings.
Also on the plus side were a more than doubling of net current assets, to 769 million pounds and a debt-to-equity ratio that actually improved to 0.7 from 1.1 the previous year.
That makes the price-to-earnings ratio look leaner than it is, since buyers at current prices are buying next year's growth at a discount.
The way Reese calculates the price-to-earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio based on an average of historical, current and projected growth rates, AEO has a 0.33 PEG ratio.
The current (CAPE) ratio is at 23.4 times earnings, compared with the long-term average of 16.5.
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We do believe, though, that the current trend will continue for years to come, with the oil-to-natural-gas ratio ranging between 15 and 20.
To qualify, a borrower must be "prime, " with a minimum FICO score of 660, a debt-to-income ratio (excluding mortgage debt) of less than 25% and no current delinquencies, recent bankruptcies or tax liens.
Current cellulose based plastics include large amounts of petroleum-based additives, which results in a low plant component ratio.
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Liquidity for major non-financial corporations has never been better as measured by the high ratio of liquid assets to current liabilities.
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One technique would be to replace the current statutory debt limit with a glide path to a 50% ceiling on the debt-to-GDP ratio and empower the President to cut spending when we exceed the debt ceiling.
The current rulemaking orgy comes as three out of four investors can't define an "expense ratio" and two-thirds think "no-load" funds are free (in truth, they don't charge a fee to start an account, but they do take annual charges for expenses).
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