BMW shares – our view: The current BMW share price of EUR 72.65 values BMW shares at 9.0x 2013E prospective earnings and at 8.4x prospective 2014E earnings; the latter is a 20% discount to the 10-year average historic valuation of 10.5x. This is inconsistent with the implication that our 2014E EPS estimates of EUR 8.63 are 16% above 2011’s record EUR 7.45, 74% higher than the 5-year average of EUR 4.97 and 123% higher than the 10-year average of EUR 3.87. (See pp. 21-22.)
