Sentences with phrase «if value investors»

If value investors are the «grown ups» of the investment world, why aren't their returns better?

In practice, however, few if any value investors are deploying behavioral principles to sort out which cheap stocks actually offer returns that can be taken to the bank.

So, even if a value investor liked Starbucks during its big growth phase — the stock tended to always be too expensive to buy.

Does this matter if the value investor is amateur or professional?

If a value investor focuses on the micro aspect of individual businesses on a bottoms up basis, the macro tends to take care of itself.

Not exact matches

Ever since Benjamin Graham spelled out the principles of value investing and demonstrated their potential to improve returns and reduce risk — this was during the Great Depression, after all — investors around the world have been crunching numbers, trying to determine if the companies they're interested in are undervalued or overvalued.

If an investor holds, their investment might spike in value «to the moon,» as the saying goes.)

I can't imagine being in this business if you didn't respect, like and value your investors.

But even if hedge fund investors have an agenda, «the strongest voices will be the long - term investors» who are primarily focused on the long - term creation of value, said Desjardins Securities analyst Keith Howlett.

Still, successful value investors look past short - term concerns to determine whether a company's balance sheet is strong, or if the market has overplayed the downside, or if it's positioned to benefit from trends overlooked by other investors.

In the article I made the point that VC investors seldom value profitability if it comes with slow growth so forcing yourself to be profitable is wise in three specific scenarios:

«If investors spent less time listening to the talking heads on BNN and CNBC and more time studying history, they would realize that there is little value added by obsessing about economic growth,» Murray Leith, an analyst at Odlum Brown in Vancouver, wrote last fall.

«If... investors start to value Citigroup like it's an electric utility, it should trade at a much higher stock price,» Nygren says.

If you're an investor in Disney because of its ESPN stake, these are some of the questions you probably want to ask yourself: How much value do those existing contracts have as the TV market continues to implode?

If a company beats these estimates, it usually portends good fortune for their market value as investors flock to buy up stock of the company.

If you found an investor for your business right now, would you know how to value a stake in your business?

Startup investors, Blank says, don't even look at business plans; they're not expecting a five - year forecast, they want to know if the product will sell, and how a company creates value for investors and customers.

History shows that investors are frequently irrational, but if there were a lot of value per share that went wanting, you can comfortably bet that share prices would have gone up.

The fact that companies today are building most of their value pre-IPO versus post-IPO (if they IPO at all) means that investors who don't have access to high - quality venture capital and other private opportunities are missing out on considerable gains.

The pressure of giving up investments from investors or incubators are so great that I'm questioning myself if my education is going to be worth the time - value that I just passed up an angel or an investor that came in.

Recently, at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, legendary value investor and Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) CEO Warren Buffett said that if you are looking to place a bet against the dollar, or that interest rates would soon rise, you should just take out a plain vanilla, 30 - year fixed mortgage.

If you own a company that you and an investor value at $ 1 million, and he puts $ 1 million into it, the pre-money is $ 1 million, the post-money is $ 2 million, and you are now 50 - 50 partners.

The activist investor says the chemical giant's shares could more than double in value if the company is broken into three parts.

Stock values would not have held up if investors believed the worst - case scenario — failed negotiations that trigger an effective Greek default — would lead to mass panic.

While some shareholders argue that Dell's stock will continue to go up if the company remains public because investors are realizing the value of the company, Niles said that he only sees the stock declining if shareholders refuse Dell's offer.

But, even if Manby struggles with his turnaround plan, analysts and investors point out there's lots of value there.

Carlson hopes to leverage his low - cost gas into partnerships with downstream end - users without having to be a big investor: «If we're going to recover a large portion of the value generated from our natural gas production, we're going to have to take our value further down the supply chain.»

In our terms, there are value investors for Treasuries 10: There are lots of natural buyers and sellers of interest rates, and if Treasury bonds crash dramatically someone will step in to buy them.

If you could buy single - name CDS efficiently (from correlation desks who source it from CDOs), then it would be easier to be a relative - value credit investor, and relative - value credit investors could provide a bid when all of the mutual funds buying credit now turn into sellers.

the percentage of return an investor receives based on the amount invested or on the current market value of holdings; it is expressed as an annual percentage rate; yield stated is the yield to worst — the yield if the worst possible bond repayment takes place, reflecting the lower of the yield to maturity or the yield to call based on the previous close

Second, if — as many people believe — the publication of findings on the value premium has led to cash flows that have caused it to disappear, we should have seen massive outperformance in value stocks as investors purchased those equities and sold growth stocks.

To be sure, this is a travesty of economic reality inasmuch as it reflects a distorted set of tax laws that permit absentee investors to depreciate buildings again and again, as if they wear out and lose value through lack of upkeep (despite landlords being legally required to maintain rental properties intact), or by obsolescence (even as construction standards cheapen).

Taking it one step further, if the investors had received 1.5 X or 2.0 X liquidation preference, they would have actually earned 1.5 x and 2.0 x return, respectively, despite the startup losing value.

This is especially true if you consider factors such as price, trend, value and investor psychology.

If that is the case, then a correction may erase more of an investment portfolio's value than investors may be expecting.

The investment return and principal value of ETF investments will fluctuate, so that an investor's ETF shares, if or when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost.

So if you drew a horizontal line and call that fair value like Ben Graham said, and then you draw a wavy line around that horizontal line and call that stock prices, the market is pitching us opportunities all the time between stocks that are way below fair value and way above fair value, the reason investors don't beat the market has nothing to do with the market is not throwing us pitches in that it's not still emotional, they are behavioral problem, there's agency problems, there is a lot of other issues going on but it's not because we're not getting really great pictures all the time.

Ironically, the trend of companies raising less capital actually enhances the importance of the initial round buy - in (both because that initial buy - in becomes less diluted meaning the first round price was that much more important and because even if an angel wants to buy up more in later rounds they'll have less of a chance to do so; I also believe that along with the trend of companies raising less capital we're also seeing earlier and somewhat smaller average exits — also enhancing the value of initial round buy - ins as fewer investors are truly swinging for the proverbial fence).

Much of the reason that PBR's stock still has as much value as it does is because investors are assuming that the company will be bailed out by Brazil if it's problems become too severe.

Even if income does not change by much, wealth can rise or fall because of changes in the attitude of investors toward risk, and declines in the value of collateral behind debt.

In fact, if you're a value investor, this is the perfect service for you.

«Given the performance of certain stocks, we wonder if the market has adopted an alternative paradigm for calculating equity value,» Einhorn wrote in a letter to investors dated October 24.

If the company's underlying stock decreases in value, an investor can still hold onto the convertible bond and receive the bond's par value at maturity, as long as the issuer does not default.

The value of Goldman's stake has not been determined, but if it is determined to be worth more than one third of the broadcast operations, Goldman would have enough votes to push out Shaw if it wanted, using Mr. Asper as the Canadian investor in the deal.

If you are a long - term investor and believe the company has fundamental value — think Google (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN) or Facebook — then the early volatility and the risk of price drops are of less concern.

It is painfully obvious how wrong this method is if you are a value investor and like to buy things that are out of favor.

If another coin is useful to store value AND to transact cheaply with, it severely undermines Bitcon's appeal to investors.

If you restate his argument in an uncharitable way, he is saying that the solution for the problem of excluding non-accredited investors in value appreciation is not to let them participate in private markets, but instead to suffer them to populate an earlier public market for private investors seeking liquidity.

This can be expressed as a multiple to the investment amount (2X or 3X, for example), or as a «double - dip» — the investor's right to get their money back, plus an amount equal to the as - if - converted value (that is, the amount the investor would receive on liquidation had they converted their preferred shares to common shares).

If interest rates decline, however, bond prices usually increase, which means an investor can sometimes sell a bond for more than face value, since other investors are willing to pay a premium for a bond with a higher interest payment.