quote:Originally posted by Paper Tiger

Optiontrader:
The profit for the third quarter was $6.6M (i.e. the running profit for the year, went from $1.1M to $7.7M) Annualise that and you get a P/E of 8.9. The fourth quarter was probably better yet.

But the real question is where does it go from here and not where was it last year.
Yes tiger, but so far the profit is only 20% above the same period of last year. The fourth was by far the weakest period last year, where the firm lost money! A 50 - 50 chance that the fourth period will be different from last years is not good enough for me at the moment, though it may be a good bet for the future when the fundamentals become clear