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Upcoming changes, though, mean a country could support a higher multiple than is safe today, he adds.

After 18 months of talks, Walgreens is paying a lower earnings multiple than KKR and co did.

The stock is also priced at a lower multiple than China Telecom, because it has businesses other than cellular".

But there are also some utility companies that pay absolutely no dividends, instead offering investors a growth stock story at a lower multiple than your basic dot-com.

That was a higher multiple than it enjoyed through the first half of the 1990's, hardly a time of investor pessimism regarding the company.

Disney, in fact, has a lower multiple than the media conglomerate AOL Time Warner, whose shares are trading at 43 times operating income.

On last year's revenues, a $20bn market cap would value the company at 23 times last year's sales – a higher multiple than the recent big-money technology flotations.

Four or five months ago, those companies traded for 20 to 30 times per-share earnings, a considerably higher multiple than investors paid for regulated utilities that distribute power to homes and businesses, Mr. Patterson said.

The final price is also less than one-third of the company's annual revenue of $662 million, a significantly smaller multiple than European luxury fashion houses like Fendi were receiving last year.

But then, media companies typically trade at higher multiples than many other types of businesses, on the theory that they will grow faster.

The other two — Precision Castparts and Foster Wheeler — have been trading at higher multiples than some investors would like, but, Mr. Pearlman says, are worth the price.