Exam 14: Valuation: Market-Based Approaches

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A firm's value-to-book and market-to-book ratios may differ from one for a number of reasons. Discuss how a successful internally funded research and development program would create a situation where the value-to-book and market-to-book ratios differ from one.

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Market multiples capture ____________________ valuation per dollar of book value or per dollar of earnings.

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Which of the following is not a reason why price-earnings ratios would differ across firms?

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Strictly speaking, the price-earnings ratio assumes that firm value is

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Companies value-to-book and market-to-book ratios may differ due to accounting reasons. An example of an accounting reason that would create a difference is

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The market-to-book ratio is calculated by

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The ______________________________ represents the value of the firm, based on book value of equity and forecasts of expected future earnings, in the absence of discounting for risk.

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Assume an analyst is evaluating a firm with $1,000 of book value of common equity and a cost of equity capital equal to 8 percent. Assume that the analyst forecasts that the firm will earn ROCE of 14 percent until year 2011, when the firm will start earning ROCE equal to 8 percent. The company pays no dividends and will not engage in any stock transactions. Use this information to complete the following table and calculate the firm's value-to-book ratio. Assume an analyst is evaluating a firm with $1,000 of book value of common equity and a cost of equity capital equal to 8 percent. Assume that the analyst forecasts that the firm will earn ROCE of 14 percent until year 2011, when the firm will start earning ROCE equal to 8 percent. The company pays no dividends and will not engage in any stock transactions. Use this information to complete the following table and calculate the firm's value-to-book ratio.

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Firms with low P/E ratios tend to have current residual income that is greater than

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What information can a PEG ratio provide about a company's stock price? What does a PEG ratio greater than mean? less than one?

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