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You are examining the wide differences in price/sales ratios that you can observe among firms in the retail store industry and trying to come up with a rationale to explain these differences.

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Price

Sales

Earnings

Expected
Growth

Beta

Payout

Bombay Co.

$38

$9.70

0.68

29%

145%

0%

Bradlees

15

16860.00%

1.75

12%

115%

34

Caldor

32

14745.00%

2.7

13%

155%

0

Consolidated

21

2300.00%

0.95

27%

135%

0

Dayton Hudson

73

27290.00%

4.65

13%

130%

38

Federated

22

5890.00%

1.4

10%

145%

0

Kmart

23

10145.00%

1.75

12%

130%

59

Nordstrom

36

4385.00%

1.6

12%

145%

20

Penney

54

8105.00%

3.5

11%

110%

41

Sears

57

15000.00%

4.55

11%

135%

36

Tiffany”s

32

3565.00%

1.5

11%

150%

19

Wal-Mart

30

2935.00%

1.05

19%

130%

11

Woolworth

23

7415.00%

1.35

13%

125%

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a. There are two companies that sell for more than revenues, the Bombay company and Wal-Mart. Why?

b. What is the variable that is most highly correlated with price-sales ratios?

c. Which of these companies is most likely to be over/under valued? How did you arrive at this judgment?

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