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It can be used in financial contexts to refer to a figure that is a specific multiple of a company's profits, often in discussions about valuation or performance metrics.
Example: "The company was valued at a multiple of profits that reflected its strong market position and growth potential."
Alternatives: "a factor of earnings" or "a ratio of profits".
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We went through a period where valuations were a multiple of expenses rather than a multiple of profits, and that has changed.
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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.
Typically a multiple of annual profits will be used to generate a balance sheet value".
As a general rule you can take a multiple of future profits to land on a price.
Between late August and October 25th, almost $34 billion flowed into such funds, more than the annual totals for 2005 and 2006.Emerging markets now trade at a higher multiple of profits than developed markets, a development that has in the past been associated with peaks in emerging-market share prices.
The old rule of thumb was that emerging markets were pricey when they traded at a higher multiple of profits than their developed counterparts, as they did in 1999 and 2007 just before sharp falls in prices.
More important still, the firm trades at a seemingly modest multiple of profits.
The company is now valued at a multiple of its operating profit, which is a simplification but an accurate one.
Exxon Mobil, a company that has been around for more than a hundred years and generates vast profits, trades at a multiple of one times earnings — yes, one times earnings — and at a multiple of seven times its cash flow.
Wall Street tends to value a company's stock on a multiple of its future expected profits.
Because stocks tend to trade as a multiple of a company's future profits, those upgrades last week sent Facebook's stock soaring.
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