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The price earnings ratios on Feb 8th 2006 for five companies traded on the London Stock Exchange are listed below. All the companies are quite well know and involved in retailing in the UK. Discuss the factors that might explain the differences between these price earnings ratios.

Company Price/Earnings Ratio
Boots 19.9
JB Sports 9.4
Marks and Spencer 13.4
Morrison 47.2
Tesco 17.2

please discuss the EPS and changes for the above companies.

If the undermentioned factors influence P/E ratio then pls try to explain with help of examples how they effect the P/E ratio.

Risk of investment
Nature of accounting policies
the extent to which current earnings deviate from expected earnings
difference in expected growth
Dividend policy
Debt to equity ratio
Bonus declaration
Inflation
Interest rates

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