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You notice that Dell Computers has a stock price of $27.85 and EPS of $1.26. Its competitor Hewlett-Packard has EPS

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You notice that Dell Computers has a stock price of $27.85 and EPS of $1.26. Its competitor Hewlett-Packard has EPS of $2.47. What is one estimate of the value of a share of Hewlett-Packard stock?

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