Market value ratios

Ratios that relate the market price of the firm's common stock to selected financial statement items.

Market Value Ratios

Any ratio that compares a security's current market price (or average market price over a period of time) to any item on its financial statement. One of the most common market value ratios is the price-earnings ratio, which measure the market price against the company's earnings for a given period of time. Fundamental analysts use market value ratios to help determine whether a security is overvalued or undervalued.

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Calculate liquidity, leverage, asset management, and profitability and market value ratios. Show major trends graphically and describe strengths and weaknesses.

Mohawk Industries, Inc. (MHK): assessing financial performance during a period of rapid expansion.(Instructor's Note)

Although, the identification of cases where the market value of a parent's holdings in a subsidiary exceeds the entire market value of the consolidated parent firm is notable; even some of the market value ratios below one are impressive, given the relative proportion of assets.

These spin-offs illustrate that through prudent management, shareholders of the parent do not necessarily appear to be highly exposed to untimely capital gains recognition, certainly not to the extent required to justify the resulting market value ratios.

These predictions are inconsistent with the observed market value ratios. An agency-based explanation appears unlikely.

Market Value Ratio = [P.sub.S][S.sub.S\P] + [D.sub.S\P] / [P.sub.P][S.sub.P] + [D.sub.P] (2)

In Table I, we see that on the close of the first day of trading, the market value ratio for both TURF and PFS Web (PFSW) are 1.45 and 1.16, respectively.

A high market value ratio is not surprising if the carve-out subsidiary is shielded from a large potential legal liability of the parent.

Because of the possibility of dilution effects, the omission of outstanding off-balancesheet derivative contracts is likely to bias the market value ratio estimates.

Adjusted Market Value Ratio = [P.sub.S][S.sub.S\P] + [D.sub.S\P] + [O.sub.S\P] / [P.sub.P][S.sub.P] + [D.sub.P] + [O.sub.P] (7)

Pricing an emerging industry: Evidence from Internet subsidiary carve-outs

Market value ratios - relate the firm's stock price to its earnings and book value.

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(16.) The variability of exposures at the level of individual firms is apparent in the dispersion of firms' net market value ratios. These ratios are the net market value of a firm's contracts as a proportion of the value of either the positive or the negative market value contracts, whichever is smaller in absolute value.

Still, for some dealers the net market value as a percentage of total market value of their contracts was significantly higher than for the market as a whole.(16) However, whether the higher net market value ratio of an individual firm's position represents significant price risk for that firm cannot be determined without taking into account the firm's offsetting cash market and exchange-traded futures positions.

Price risk intermediation in the over-the-counter derivatives markets: interpretation of a global survey