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- From: meyers@lorenz.ocean.fsu.edu (Steve Meyers)
- Subject: Re: Buy Recommendation For Shares Priced Greater Than Book Value
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- References: <HPZ7VB3w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 19:25:44 GMT
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- In article <HPZ7VB3w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
- pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky) writes:
- > georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
- >
- > >
- > > The current issue of Money Magazine ranks Syntex as their highest
- > > buy recommendation for 1993. However, the current issue of Business
- > > Week ranks Syntex as selling at twice its book value, even though its
- > > share price is half its 52-week high.
- > >
- > > Is this a contradiction?
- >
- > Not at all. Stocks trade on a heck of a lot more than breakup value
- > (which is what you're at least party talking about with book).
-
- But how high is reasonable? 2x book is pretty good, but 20x book
- is too expensive. I guess my question is, how important is price/book
- value when selecting a stock?
-
- Steve
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