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PATENT-TO-STOCK-PRICE RATIO [1 record]

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Record 1 1993-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
CONT

[Used to] determine a company's odds of turning out new products that might attract a market ...[,the] Patent-to-Stock- Price Ratio, which takes the number of patents and divides it by the price of a company's stock, is one of the most telling gauges of any company's chances of success. Take two companies in the plastics industry [both reporting approximately the same earnings and stock prices]. ... Say Company A has filed only three patents in the past year, while its competitor, Company B, has submitted thirty. ... The Patent-to-Stock-Price Ratio reveals that investors in Company A's $50 shares are paying over $16 for every patent filed. With Company B, the investor is paying just over $1.60 per patent.

Key term(s)
  • patent to stock price ratio

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques
Key term(s)
  • ratio des brevets d'invention aux cours de l'action
  • rapport des brevets d'invention aux cours de l'action
  • coefficient des brevets d'invention aux cours de l'action
  • indice des brevets d'invention aux cours de l'action
  • ratio de brevets d'invention aux cours des titres
  • rapport de brevets d'invention aux cours des titres
  • coefficient de brevets d'invention aux cours des titres
  • indice de brevets d'invention aux cours des titres

Spanish

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