*Mercedes Benz*: What is this company's current stock price ? The P/E ratio, Beta, and EPS ratio. What do thesenumbers tell us? How is the company doing compared to the market if the market's beta is...

Mercedes Benz
· The current stock price of Mercedes Benz Group AG is EURO 67.80.
· The trailing twelve-month (TTM) PE ratio of the company is 3.27.
· The beta of the company is 1.35 (on a 5-year monthly basis).
· The trailing twelve-month EPS is 20.76.
· As per the PE ratio, the company’s stock is priced 3.27 times as that of its book value. Beta shows the risk of the company based on the market. The company has a risk of 1.35 times as compared to the market risk. The earnings per share determines how much earnings are allocated to each share. Here, the per share earnings of a company is EURO 20.76.
· Since the market beta is always one because beta captures the risk of an asset compared to market and if market is compared to market, then the beta will always be 1. In case of Mercedes, the company’s beta is 1.35, which is higher than the market. It is obvious to have a beta of higher than for a company like Mercedes because of the additional industry specific risk that the company undertakes. Further, unsystematic risk and idiosyncratic risk also affects the beta of the company.
· The company has a total of 1.07 billion shares outstanding.
· The most recent news about the company is that a company named Daimler AG will be a part of Mercedes Benz AG group. This news has announced in February 2022.
· The company’s sales decreased dramatically during the pandemic because of the fact that the consumers were not willing to purchase luxury items during lockdown. The inflation in various metals, coal and other commodities have resulted in an increase in the price of the company’s automobile.
· Yes, the company has issued preferred stock.
· The company is a good investment...