Question

As a stockholder in Bozo Oil Company, you receive its annual report. In the financial statements, the firm has reported assets of $15 million, liabilities of $9 million, after-tax earnings of $3 million, and 761,000 outstanding shares of common stock.
Required:
a. Calculate the earnings per share of Bozo Oils common stock. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
b. Assuming a share of Bozo Oil's common stock has a market value of $40, What is the firm's price-earnings ratio?. (Round your intermediate calculation to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.)
c. Calculate the book value of a share of Bozo Oil's common stock. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places)

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

a. Earnings per share

= After tax earnings / Number of common shares outstanding

= $3,000,000 / 761,000

= $3.9 per share

b. Assuming that a share of Bozo Oil's company has a market value of $40, then, the firm's price earning ratio would be:

= Common stock market value / Earnings per share

= $40 / $3.9

= 10.26

c. The book value of a share of Bozo Oil's common stock

Book value = (Assets - Liabilities) / Number of shares outstanding

= ($15,000,000 - $9,000,000) / 761,000

= $6,000,000 / 751,000

= $7.88