Valuations matter because they are predictive of future returns.
Not exact matches
Finally, it doesn't
matter if the low P / E ratio is related to the company or the industry,
because a low
valuation simply means the market does not believe in sustainable profit growth.
All three companies are planning to sell shares to the public and seeking
valuations in excess of $ 1 billion, according to people familiar with the
matter, who declined to be identified
because the plans are not yet public.
This trend
matters to investors
because rising
valuation levels inflate past performance, reduce potential future performance, and amplify the risk of mean reversion to historical
valuations.
Of course, starting
valuations always
matter and one reason why returns for all equities are so modest is
because valuation was sky high at the start of the time period.
As a result, it's the relative
valuation between the two choices that
matter because it's the relative risk - premium spread that drives much of investors decision making (whether they're conscious of it or not).
I told myself that it didn't
matter because valuations probably don't make that big a difference (I was of course careful not to check whether this is actually so or...
Many of us are afraid to write about issue that
matters most
because it is scary to contemplate how much financial misery we have caused with our tolerance of the widespread promotion of Buy - and - Hold strategies (it is the Buy - and - Hold Model — rooted in the long - discredited belief that markets are efficient — that is responsible for studies that fail to take
valuations into consideration when identifying safe withdrawal rates).
But to say that
valuations matter is to say that emotions
matter because both overvaluation and undervaluation are the product of emotions.
I was told more than once by Appraisal Institute of Canada instructors that the end appraisal document result (the final
valuation) did not
matter that much, that only the «process»
mattered,
because that process, if done correctly, would be our best defense in a lawsuit.