With IBM stock trading for just 11 times its guidance for
adjusted earnings this year, investors can get a near - 4 % dividend yield, along with a long history of dividend growth, all for a bargain price.
Combined with modest growth from its Fios segment — where increases in Fios Internet customers have more than offset losses in Fios Video connections — as well as sales from its Oath subsidiary, which encompasses more than 50 media and tech brands including Yahoo!, tumblr, TechCrunch, HuffPost, and AOL, management says investors can safely expect Verizon to deliver solid low - single - digit percent growth in both revenue and
adjusted earnings this year.
IBM expects to produce at least $ 13.80 in
adjusted earnings this year, putting the PE ratio below 12.
Not exact matches
The company raised its 2018
adjusted earnings per share forecast to a range of $ 6.95 - $ 7.15 from $ 6.85 - $ 7.10, and full -
year sales to a range of $ 63 billion to $ 64.5 billion from $ 62.5 billion to $ 64 billion.
Wal - Mart Stores, the retailer's parent that also operates the Sam's Club chain, said it expects profit for fiscal
year 2019 to increase about 5 % over the expected
adjusted earnings of $ 4.30 to $ 4.40 per share for the current fiscal
year.
Merck raised its full -
year forecast for
adjusted earnings to between $ 4.16 and $ 4.28 per share from between $ 4.08 and $ 4.23 per share estimated previously.
For the quarter ended July 20, Dick's
adjusted earnings were 96 cents a share, up from 82 cents a
year ago, but less than the $ 1.00 expected by Wall Street and even its own forecast of $ 1.02 a share to $ 1.07 a share.
The cosmetics maker now expects full -
year adjusted earnings of $ 4.38 to $ 4.42 per share, compared with an earlier forecast of $ 4.27 to $ 4.32 per share.
Shiller's CAPE ratio measures the stock price divided by the average of ten
years of
earnings,
adjusted for inflation.
Spirit estimates the acquisition will be accretive to
adjusted non-GAAP
earnings per share in the first full
year after closing.
Adjusted earnings were down
year - on -
year from 69 cents per share to 65 cents per share — Wall Street had been expecting 70 cents.
The Laval, Quebec - based company said it still expected full -
year revenue of $ 9.9 billion - $ 10.1 billion and
adjusted earnings of $ 6.60 - $ 7.00 per share.
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization (EBITA) came in at 207 million euros ($ 258.67 million), the company said, compared with 188 million euros a
year ago.
The deal should not have a significant impact on Walgreens»
adjusted earnings for the fiscal
year ending Aug. 31, 2018, the company added, and it expects annual synergies from the new transaction of more than $ 300 million.
«While there are risks on the horizon, if these positive conditions persist,
adjusted earnings growth for the full
year may exceed our medium - term targets.»
It gives the most accurate picture of the market P / E by calculating a ten -
year average of inflation -
adjusted earnings as the «E,» a formula that eliminates the bigs swings that make P / Es look overly extended when profits temporarily collapse, and more attractive than warranted when
earnings spike, the scenario today.
«Latest estimates show that average weekly
earnings for employees in Great Britain in real terms (that is,
adjusted for price inflation) fell by 0.7 % including bonuses, and fell by 0.5 % excluding bonuses, compared with a
year earlier,» the ONS said.
The Toronto - based miner said
adjusted net
earnings for the quarter ended March 31 were $ 170 million, or 15 cents a share, compared with $ 162 million, or 14 cents a share in the same three - month period a
year ago.
In addition, the company said that it now expects
adjusted earnings in the range of $ 2.48 to $ 2.53 per share for the full
year, up from the previously forecast range of $ 2.30 to $ 2.33.
Adjusted earnings per share of 95 cents were down 10 % from a
year ago and missed estimates by 1 cent.
The cruise operator said it now sees
adjusted full -
year earnings between $ 3.35 and $ 3.45, well below analyst expectations of $ 3.72, according to Thomson Reuters.
The shipping giant now says it sees
adjusted earnings of $ 4.65 to $ 4.85 a share for this
year, as opposed to the previous view of $ 4.80 to $ 5.06.
The group's Salary Forecast, which looks at real wages (i.e average increases in
earnings adjusted for inflation), predicts that American employees will see their incomes grow by 2.7 percent this
year.
Emerson said
adjusted net
earnings per share for fiscal
year ending September, 2018 were expected to be $ 2.85 at the mid point, compared with an average...
GE said it now sees
adjusted earnings for the
year ahead of between $ 1 per share and $ 1.07 per share.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA),
adjusted for one - offs, were set to decline by a low - single - digit percentage and not match the prior -
year level, as previously forecast.
Last
year, it generated revenues of 29 million euros and
adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of 5 million euros.
Revenue of $ 2.9 billion was up 24 % from the prior
year, bolstered by gains in subscription software sales, and
adjusted earnings per share of 35 cents a share were up 25 %.
First quarter
adjusted diluted
earnings per share were $ 1.91, a decrease of 10.3 % from the prior
year period.
The miner said
adjusted net
earnings for the quarter ended March 31 rose to $ 170 million, or 15 cents a share, from $ 162 million or 14 cents a share in the same three - month period a
year ago on the back of higher gold prices and lower depreciation.
The chain foresees full -
year adjusted earnings between 37 and 40 cents per share.
Excluding the first quarter impact of the TCJA - related expense and the legal settlement, 3M expects its
adjusted full -
year 2018
earnings to be in the range of $ 10.20 to $ 10.55 per share versus a prior expectation of $ 10.20 to $ 10.70 per share.
Developed by Yale economist Robert Shiller, it uses not current
earnings - per - share as the denominator, but a ten -
year average of inflation -
adjusted EPS.
Adjusted earnings from operations were up, however, rising to $ 565 million from $ 439 million a
year earlier.
On an
adjusted basis, its
earnings were $ 963 million, or $ 1.04 per share, compared with $ 1.37 billion, or $ 1.36 per share, in the same period a
year earlier.
Coveris generated US$ 966 million in revenue last
year and US$ 128 million in
adjusted earnings before taxes and other expenses (EBITDA).
The company beat on both its top and bottom lines, reporting
adjusted earnings of 90 cents a share on a record quarterly revenue of $ 1.61 billion, representing 23 percent
year - over-
year revenue growth.
The Shiller price /
earnings ratio, which compares companies» share prices with their inflation -
adjusted 10 -
year earnings average, is at 31, well above the historical median of 16 — a sign that future returns will be sluggish.
The transaction is expected to lead to double - digit accretion,
adjusted for intangible amortization, in Loblaw
earnings per share in the first
year.
Adobe said the acquisition would not have an impact on its
adjusted earnings in the
year ending December 2017.
The company's
adjusted earnings forecast for this
year matched the lowest analyst estimate in a Bloomberg survey.
J. M. Smucker, which also sells Jif peanut butter, expects the deal to add about 10 cents per share to its
adjusted earnings in the first full -
year after close.
The chart below lays out median annual
earnings —
adjusted for inflation — over the last 35
years.
The retailer boosted its full -
year adjusted earnings guidance to $ 6.27 per share, compared with the current consensus of $ 6.23 a share.
It said it expects next
year's
adjusted earnings to be down as much as 9 percent from this
year if a generic competitor to Restasis launches early in 2018.
Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE, TSX: ABX) reported late Monday that first - quarter
adjusted earnings rose from a
year ago despite lower production, with the company's profitability helped by higher gold prices.
To wit, the company reported
adjusted earnings (which exclude one - time gains, charges, and other nonrecurring items) of $ 0.54 a share, versus the $ 0.56 a share posted the prior
year.
Immediately accretive to MVW's
earnings and free cash flow profile and generates significant near - term cost savings: The transaction is expected to be accretive to MVW's
adjusted earnings per share within the first full
year after close.
Adjusted Earnings Per Share (EPS) were also up from $ 7.25 in the third quarter last
year to $ 9.57 this quarter, all while beating the forecast estimate of $ 8.33.
Longer - term valuation measures — notably cyclically
adjusted earnings (CAPE)-- are even more elevated and suggest low - to mid-single digit returns over the next five
years.