For banks they review the multiple of price to book value, or net worth.
It is like Coke or Gillette or Colgate, but the stock trades at half the multiple of those companies.
Returns the multiple of all the tuplet multipliers as an opFrac.
In fact, the multiple of value created by growth versus margins is more than four to one.
But Dr. Pimm said the multiple of 10 was an arbitrary choice.
In everywhere in England and Wales, including the poorest districts, the multiple of house prices has risen since 2002, when the ONS first started collecting local pay data.
In general, he said, "The lower the rents the higher the upside, and the higher the upside the greater the multiple of price to rents".
Juniper trades at 330 times its expected earnings for 2000 -- 15 times the multiple of the average stock in the Standard & Poor's 500.
It will report on the multiple of the DG's pay to the BBC median each year and it will regard the current multiple as a cap.
That is far above the 20.52 of the Standard & Poor's 500, but below the multiple of some other fast-growing technology companies tracked by CIBC, Mr. Holman said.
In fact, Corning's price-to-earnings ratio is nearly 47, lower than the multiple of 81 at JDS Uniphase but well above the 14 of Lucent.
