Sentences with phrase «at railroad stocks»

In looking for investment ideas among these seven industries, we are taking a closer look this week at Railroad stocks.

Not exact matches

The most popular railroad shares were called «fancy stocks,» trading at huge multiples of their earnings and with enormous volatility that often wiped out amateur speculators.

One such story, given rather wide circulation by a sportscaster and printed in at least two books, had it that years ago a young Chicagoan who later became an official of the Missouri Pacific Railroad so idolized the White Stockings that he named nine Kansas way stations after his heroes when he grew up.

That year, Northern Pacific, a railroad stock, earned $ 10 per share and traded at $ 17 (a P / E of 1.7).