For one thing, he notes that it may take until 2012 for rivals to price their tablets at a discount to the iPad while still making acceptable gross margins.
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The company's shares trade in lockstep with the price of oil and at a discount to more well-rounded (but less profitable) competitors Jacobs Engineering and Fluor.
Olney was heartened by this especially since Europe on a 30-year 12-month forward price-to-earnings basis trades at a discount of 16% to the U.S. which is double the long-run average of 8%.
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Already he's got America's largest consumer financial and Countrywide, the largest mortgage company (nabbed at a discount price).
And both parties get what they want at a discount price, since MCI's bankruptcy proceedings left it with relatively low debt.
Before a One Kings Lane sale begins, staffers work with vendors to secure goods at a price that will let the site offer a deep discount and still charge about 50% more than what it paid.
At its recent price, SWZ trades at or near a 14.8% discount to the underlying value of its portfolio.
We also required companies to have latest 12-month price-to-sales ratios at a discount to their five-year averages.
Most distributors buy products from Herbalife at a 50% discount, resell them at full price and pocket the markup.
Continental Europe is cheap, with a sector-adjusted price-to-earnings market valuation that is at a 30% discount to the U.S. That, Credit Suisse says, is very close to an all-time low.
The BP deal guarantees Sempra gas at a discount to the price on the U.S.-Mexico border, locking in a nice spread.
Controlling shareholders, often referred to as promoters, are allowed to sell themselves securities at a discount to the market price, which most investors would view as a form of insider trading.
Because there is so much excess capacity in the worlds refineries, because there is a fair range of capabilities in that excess capacity and because if there was not enough refining capacity to handle all the sour crude that is available, the price of sour crude would be selling at a greater discount to sweet crude than the current modest discount.
Penney is sold at a 50% discount, and less than 1% is sold at full price.
On a price-to-book basis, shares currently trade at 1.34x, a 47% discount to the industry average of 2.53x.
Or they can sell them to others at a discount to the mooncakes' market price.
The Plan then uses the employees money that has been payroll deducted during the offering period to automatically purchase shares at a 15% discount to the purchase price.
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As the price of senior gold mining stocks and gold bullion have diverged, the enterprise value per ounce of gold reserves held by gold miners is at a historically steep discount to the spot price of gold.
In after-market trading that took place immediately after the earnings release, investors bid up Facebook stock by as much as 9.6%, a big and important spike for a stock that this week traded at a 50% discount to its IPO price.
Freeport McMoRan trades at a discount to its 3-year average price-to-sales ratio of 2.218.
They are trading at a 27% discount to their historical average price-to-earnings ratio.
Dr. Pai said he and the Clinton group canvassed the Indian laboratory industry, convincing 27 of the 400 laboratories in the country to agree to a price ceiling on the diagnostics they purchased at the steep discount.
He wanted the contract to carry Reliance Petroleum's crude oil, but the billionaire controlling owner Mukesh Ambani told him that the railways were just too expensive and he was using the pipelines of his competitors at a 10% discount on IR's price.
Tronox trades for less than book value, and at a 45% discount to its five-year average price-to-book value ratio.
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While Deutsche Bank didn't disclose the terms of the share sale, industry officials said the deal's structure would likely involve a small number of big institutional money managers picking up the shares at a small discount to the stock's current trading price.
Kembrel offers the item at a discount between 45% and 75% off the retail price.
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Infy is trading at a 36 per cent discount to its 10-year median price to earnings ratio, the widest gap among the foursome.
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Such plans allow employees to buy their company's stock at a discount of 5% to 15% off the market price on a specific day.
Its price-to-book ratio of 1.49 is at a 15.8% discount to the peer group average of 1.77.
With a large portfolio of brands, the company offers products at every price point from discount (Chaps) to luxury (Ralph Lauren Collection), widening its target demographic.
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