1-You will use the price multiples approach to estimate the value of company X. You gather the following information about 4 comparable companies

Valuation Variables	A	B	C	D
Market Price	$44.12	$24.36	$31.25	$35.33
EPS	2.36	1.85	1.97	2.07
Book Value/share	3.25	4.58	3.98	2.89
CF/share	11.69	8.95	7.58	12.84
Sales/share	6.58	4.36	4.85	3.85

Company X has the following information: Company X
EPS	2.58
Book Value/share	4.36
CF/share	5.84
Sales/share	7.25

You also have the following information related to recent acquisition of similar companies

acquisition	Price prior to sale	Sale Price
1	35.36	41.25
2	19.85	26.5
3	24.85	30.5
4	33.64	39.75

1-Calculate the average values of the price multiples, P/E, P/B, P/CF and P/S based on the 4 comparables.

2-What are the 4 price estimates of company X using each of the P/E, P/B, P/CF and P/S multiples.

3-What is the average price of company X?

4-What is the price of company X under the following weighting method: 35% P/E, 30% P/B, 15% P/CF, 20% P/S.

5-What is the average premium paid for the recent acquisitions?

6-What is the range of asking prices of this company if youre going to use only the two averages calculated in questions 3 and 4 and the premium in question 5?