- 8 - Standard & Poor’s Stock Reports. Ignoring those P/E ratios over 25 and those not calculable due to losses or zero profits (which eliminated eight companies and truncated the range for one), petitioner’s expert determined that the median of the midpoints of the companies’ 1992 ranges of P/E ratios was a P/E ratio of 14.25. Petitioner’s expert then considered the following factors and made adjustments of unspecified quantities in the directions indicated below for an end result of a pretax P/E ratio in the range of 3 to 5: Factor Adjustment Market diversification Down Product diversification None Management depth Down Future earnings prospect None Financial strength None Access to capital markets Down Marketability Down Control Up Net effect Down Petitioner’s expert also calculated a capitalization rate using the buildup approach as follows:Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
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