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Low earnings can make a price/earnings ratio very high. This fact may not mean that the company is overvalued. Instead, there may simply be an industrywide ________.
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Recession. A recession may lower earnings.
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Return on equity is a measurement that stock investors watch closely. It measures ________ compared to equity.
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Earnings after taxes. In other words, return on equity measures what a company is earning for stockholders.
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Asset utilization ratios are used to _______.
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Determine how a company manages its assets. Ultimately, asset utilization ratios help to measure a company's efficiency.
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A low price-to-book (P/B) ratio means _______.
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Less than 1. Mathematically, it means less than 1.
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If a company with a beta of 3.0 is expected to get a return of 15 percent, what can we expect the return of the overall market to be?
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5 percent. A beta of three indicates three times the earnings possibility of the overall market. Thus, the overall market's return would be only one-third that of our company.
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Which source of company information includes the costs of producing the company's goods?
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The income statement. This statement includes income and costs.
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Balance sheets balance _______.
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Assets with liabilities. Equity, debt, taxes, and income are all included in assets and liabilities.