Price-Earnings Ratio Consider Pacific Energy Company and Atlantic Energy, Inc., both of which reported earnings of
a. What is the current PE ratio for each company?
b. Pacific Energy Company has a new project that will generate additional earnings of
c. Atlantic Energy has a new project that will increase earnings by
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