Private companies were valued based on comparison with prevailing price-to-earnings or other financial ratios.
Norwegian diapers cost as little as 30 crowns for 50, less than half of the prevailing price in Lithuania.
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Privately held companies are valued by coupling estimates of revenues or profits with prevailing price-to-revenues or price-to-earnings ratios for similar public companies.
Privately held companies, for whom in most cases only 2004 data were readily available, were valued based on comparisons to prevailing price-to-earnings or price-to-sales ratios for similar publicly traded companies.
The number of scanners per capita in the U.S. is now 7x (for CT) and 2.5x (for MRI) the average of France and Germany, and many of these scanners are poorly utilized but still profitable for their owners at prevailing price levels.
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Last week, shares of Citigroup halted for five minutes after an erroneous order was entered 17% below the prevailing market price for the stock.
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Mr Isaac reckons that many of the measures that were introduced to instil discipline notably fair-value accounting, which forces banks to mark assets to the prevailing market price actually exacerbated the latest crisis.
Investors type in what they want to buy or sell, and how much more than the prevailing market price they would be willing to pay or receive for various-sized parcels of shares.
The Trustees, who were also highranking officials of Grumman, determined not to tender any of these shares and on October 12 and 13 used Plan funds to purchase 1, 158, 000 additional shares of Grumman stock at the prevailing market price in an effort to defeat the tender offer.
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Predictably, short-seller advocacy groups lamented the toughness and cost burdens of the new regulations, under which a trader wanting to short a particular stock has to find a price above the prevailing national best bid and offer price if the stock has already fallen 10% or more from the previous trading session.
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Over the past two years, the price of the prevailing solar technology polysilicon-based photovoltaic cells has plummeted.
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But what is also baked into the share price is the general prevailing view of what future profits are going to be, how much money is going to be made out of new products, how much can be made out of leveraging the brand, the cash the company has, the bright minds it has working for it?
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But given the prevailing conditions in the natural gas market, price realization has been weak.
With the strike price of the option set a long way above prevailing levels, they will have reckoned they could convert the debt into equity at ever giddier prices.
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