Question

Dove, Inc., had additions to retained earnings for the year just ended of $486,000. The firm paid out $175,000 in cash dividends, and it has ending total equity of $6.825 million. If the company currently has 335,000 shares of common stock outstanding, what are earnings per share? Dividends per share? What is book value per share? If the stock currently sells for $46 per share, what is the market-to-book ratio? The price-earnings ratio? If total sales were $15.4 million, what is the price-sales ratio?

Answer 1

Answer:

(A) $1.97 per share

(B) $0.52 per share

(C) $20.37 per share

(D) 2.26 times

(E) 23.35 times

(F) 1.00

Explanation:

The computation is shown below:

(A) Earning per share = (Net income) ÷ (Number of shares)

where,  

Net income = Retained earnings + dividend paid

= $486,000 + $175,000

= $661,000

And, the number of shares are 335,000 shares

Now put these values to the above formula  

So, the value would equal to

= ($661,000) ÷ (335,000  shares)

= $1.97 per share

(B) Dividend per share = (Total dividend) ÷ (number of shares)

= ($175,000) ÷ (335,000 shares)

= $0.52 per share

(C) Book value per share = (Total equity) ÷ (number of shares)

= ($6,825,000) ÷ (335,000 shares)

= $20.37 per share

(D) Market to book ratio = (Market price per share) ÷ (book value per share)

= $46 ÷ $20.37

= 2.26 times

(E) Price-earnings ratio = (Market price per share) ÷ (Earning per share)

= $46 ÷ $1.97

= 23.35 times

(F) Price sales ratio = (Market price per share) ÷ (Total sales per share)

where,  

Total sales per share = (total sales) ÷ (Number of shares)

= (154,00,000) ÷ (335,000 shares)

= $45.97 per share

So, the price sales ratio = $46 ÷ $45.97 = 1.00