The company has no preferred stock outstanding. Calculate the price/earnings ratio of common stock. (Round any intermediate calculations and your final answer to two decimal places.)

Ketchen, Inc. provides the following information for 2018:



A) 48.67 times

B) 55.00 times

C) 40.74 times

D) 32.54 times


C) 40.74 times





* Earnings per share = (Net income- Preferred dividend) / Weighted average number of common shares

outstanding

**Price/earnings ratio = Market price per share of common stock / Earnings per share

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