Sentences with phrase «analysts and investors tend»

Most Wall Street analysts and investors tend to focus on return on equity as their primary measure of company performance.

Analysts and investors tend to spend very little time on Goodwill when looking at financial statements.

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However, investors shouldn't pay too much attention to those vagaries in performance, because currency movements are notoriously difficult to predict and tend to even out, noted BlackRock analysts.

Wall Street analysts lack the independence to deliver truly objective research, and what little truly high - quality research exists tends to be too expensive for the average investor to access.

Smaller companies, by virtue of their vast numbers, limited market liquidity, and resultant lower investor demand, tend as a category to have very light analyst coverage.

Long - term buy - and - hold investors tend to analyze in the same or highly similar ways as do control investors, distress investors, credit analysts and first and second stage venture capitalists.

Unfortunately, unless they are careful, companies tend to have more excess cash toward the end of the good part of the cycle, at which point increasing leverage is ill - advised, but often happens because of pressure from activist investors and sell - side analysts.

They, also, tend to be the most followed by analysts and investors.

This emphasis on earnings from operations as reported and on perceptions of growth by analysts and money managers permitted these people to ignore rather completely other factors that tend to be extremely important in any balanced analysis for which GAAP is useful: e.g., strength of financial positions; understanding the underlying business; and appraising management not only as operators and stock promoters, but also as investors of corporate assets and financiers of businesses.

While other analysts tend to believe a stock will either go up or go down, value investors are content to say «I don't know» on a majority of stocks, and only invest in the ones they are relatively sure about.