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		seanalltogether on May 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Companies in the U.S. are valued 10% above the cos... Customers are probably one of the highest rated "assets" of any company nowadays. So much of the expenses of the company go into acquiring them.

fweespeech on May 18, 2015 [–]

Yes. But my understanding of the Q ratio is it takes into account on-paper assets, not the cost of "acquiring" customers or knowledge to produce R&D type "assets".

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