Question: can you tell me how to compute the current price to book value, book value, and P/E Multiplier of Wal-Mart? 

Answer: Go here: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=WMT&annual\n\nThe book value is the Shareholder Equity, I think.  Then, you figure out the number of shares to get a book value per share.  To do this, you can take their market cap and divide by the price.\n\nFor WMT, this is 191.61B / 45.98 = 4.17 billion shares.\nSE/shares = 53.171 / 4.17 = 12.76 book value per share.\n\nPrice to book will be price divided by book value per share.\n45.98 / 12.76 = 3.60, which is close enough.\n\nP/E is just the price divided by the earnings per share (EPS).\n\nTheir EPS was 2.68.\n45.98 / 2.68 = 17.2 P/E\n\nSome of that info is on the main quote page: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=WMT
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