Bumble Company is planning an IPO and management is meeting with their investment bankers to discuss the pricing strategy for this first time offering of the company's shares to the public. Bumble's CFO has spent a lot of time researching the price to earnings per share ratios (P/E Ratios) of several competitor companies, including Match which currently trades at $100 per share. The competitor P/E ratios range from 25-30x the next year's forecasted earnings per share. The CFO is forecasting Bumble's next year's earnings per share will be $3.20. He expects the Investment Bank to discuss a price range for the Bumble IPO of ...? a. $100-$150 per share
b. $50-$100 per share
c. $80-$96 per share
d. Not enough information

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

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