Question

Today, a firm has a stock price of $14.26 and an EPS of $1.15. Its close competitor has an EPS of $0.48. What would be the expected price of the competitor's stock if estimated using the method of comparables

Answer 1

$5.952

Explanation:

For the computation of expected price of the competitor's stock first we need to find out the P/E ratio of a firm which is shown below:-

P/E ratio of a firm = Stock price ÷ Earning per share

= $14.26 ÷ $1.15

= $12.4

Price of competitor's stock = P/E ratio of a firm × Earning per share

= $12.4 × $0.48

= $5.952

Therefore for computing the expected price of the competitor's stock we simply applied the above formula.