=+46. Technology investment. The Price-to-Book-value ratio is often used by investors to indicate whether a stocks price

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=+46. Technology investment. The Price-to-Book-value ratio is often used by investors to indicate whether a stock’s price is particularly high or low relative to the value of the company. But different market sectors expect different Price/

Book values. Here are data on technology companies (biz.

yahoo.com/p/8conameu.html accessed in May 2013).

We’ll compare applications software companies with manufacturers of peripheral equipment. For both, we have taken the logarithm of the Price/Book ratio to make the distributions more nearly symmetric.

Group Count Mean Median StdDev Peripherals 19 0.339035 0.264818 0.342258 Software 102 0.566206 0.516535 0.527435

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