Question

Blitz Corp. had total sales of $3,010,000 last year and has 106,000 shares of stock outstanding. The benchmark PS is 1.6 times. What stock price would you consider appropriate?

Answer 1

Answer:

the stock price is $45.44

Explanation:

The computation of the stock price is shown below:

Sales per share is

= Total sales ÷ stock outstanding  shares

= $3,010,000 ÷ 106,000 shares

= $28.40

Now

Benchmark PS = Stock price ÷ Sales per share

Stock price = $28.40 × 1.6

= $45.44

hence, the stock price is $45.44

We simply applied the above formula so that the correct value could come

And, the same is to be considered