The reporter was asking about book value -> which is the value of a companies assets and not the value of cash flow or profits as you suggest.
Her question was relevant in the fact that it demonstrated that the stock had an inflated premium to peers on a book value measure (a more defensive measure of value than PE, EV/EBITDA etc - i.e. whats its break up sell everything and liquidate value)
If "RP" had an idea he surely would have simply said that the premium is an indication that the market is pricing our prospects of proving major reserves more highly than those of our peers.
Or that BOWs assets were more attractive than peers or some other similar justification. It came off as if he didn't even know that his stock was trading at a premium to sector P/BV multiples.
It was a deer in the headlights moment to me. I don't own the stock its just my observation from watching the interview.
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