Sentence examples for a multiple of earnings from inspiring English sources

"This could involve imposing limits on mortgage lending to potential homebuyers as a multiple of earnings, also demanding banks hold greater buffers against lending," says economist Howard Archer.

Public companies are typically valued at a multiple of earnings, and the interest payments associated with high leverage may all but eliminate earnings.

The general principle of pricing media properties on a multiple of earnings could be replaced by an equation based on the size of the buyer's ego.

Just how high a multiple of earnings is she willing to pay for a company?

This is a company about to sell shares at a multiple of earnings that dwarfs companies with massive revenues, profits and growth rates – like Apple's.

The stock market is battered and yet anything but cheap (as a multiple of earnings, stocks are trading at twice the norm over the last century).

He's talking about Yahoo! and it turns out this isn't any multiple of earnings, but a multiple of revenue.

This would show the total compensation of a company's chief executive as a multiple of the earnings of its average worker or, better yet, of its lowest-paid worker.

The price of a company used to be determined as a multiple of its earnings or revenue.

To a follower of Benjamin Graham, it means a stock trading at a low multiple of earnings, dividends or book value.

Van Brady doesn't shrink from paying a high multiple of earnings to get a company with a high growth rate.