Sentences with phrase «at the past earnings»

That means that looking at the past earnings and making a judgement about the future are key to a good asset valuation.

But that's the sort of patient investment opportunity where people were looking at the past earnings and saying, gee, everything that can go wrong goes wrong and will continue to go wrong, failing to appreciate that change.

Not exact matches

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

Looking at annual price returns over the past 60 years, Bloomberg data show that annual price returns have been roughly 5 percent when the starting valuation on the S&P 500 was above the long - term median, roughly 16.5 x trailing earnings.

Even his preferred option would result in retail banking earnings growth at the Big Six to slow to 3.2 % over the next two years, compared to 8.4 % over the past two, he says.

According to a Bain analysis, 45 % of TSR growth at publicly traded global healthcare companies over the past five years came from an expansion of price - to - earnings multiples — that is more than growth from either revenue or earnings.

The US market is looking the most expensive to us at a time when US corporate earnings are already well past their prior peaks.

Even industry competitors — like Ford, which trades at a ratio of 6.6, and Toyota, which trades at 9.7 times — trade at higher multiples, and GM's average price - earnings ratio over the past five years is 12.2.

Over the past four years, the increase in average hourly earnings has been the slowest since at least the mid 1960s (Graph 3).

An investor would be well served to ignore the buy, sell or hold recommendation S&P attaches to each of the reports, instead looking at the growth in earnings, debt levels and the return on equity rates for past several years.

The earnings and revenues of $ MX have ramped up over the past three quarters, and the ROE (return on equity) is at an impressive 35 %.

Earnings edged past expectations as well, landing at $ 0.64 per share.

After underperforming the S&P 500 by nearly 60 % over the past two years, CVS is now valued at less than 12x next year's consensus earnings after adding back amortization of intangible assets.

The advance would persist, even intensify, as the afternoon moved further along, with strong earnings enabling traders to look past the recently higher yields, at least for one day.

And unlike during past runs in technology stocks, many of these companies have actual earnings and cash flows that can support reinvestment in their businesses, which in turn makes them less reliant on raising capital in the markets at a time when interest rates are climbing.

As John Shrewsberry, chief financial officer at Wells Fargo, put it in the company's most recent earnings call: «As we've talked about in the past, we are trying not to compete on price and that's what you're seeing across the rest of the industry.»

S&P 500 earnings are presently right at the 6 % line that connects historical earnings peaks across economic cycles going back cleanly over the past century.

The extraordinary tightness in the labour market has intensified in recent months; the unemployment rate, at 4.5 per cent in July, has now been below 5 per cent for the past year and earnings growth has picked up accordingly.

The S&P 500 trades today at just 15.6 times average estimated earnings — well below the average P / E of 18.6 times earnings during periods when inflation was at similarly muted levels in the past 57 years...

No less a value conscious investor than Warren Buffett commented on this shift at the most recent Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, where he pointed to the fact that the largest companies in the S&P 500; Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google generate far more cash per dollar of earnings than companies of the past.

First, it's great for investors to have an idea of what «multiple range» a company has traded at in the past — there's a lot of value to this, and most relevant for cyclical firms (mainly industrials) that may, from a fundamental standpoint, exhibit similar (but not identical) patterns with respect to both earnings and their PE through the course of each economy cycle: think Boeing (BA) and the commercial aerospace cycle; Ford (F) and consumer demand for auto sales; or United Continental (UAL) with respect to premium air travel demand.

In addition, the unrepatriated past foreign earnings back to 1986 are taxable, and at a higher rate than we initially estimated.

QCOM's earnings growth has been incredible over the past 5 years, coming in at 32.7 %.

Rent growth is pacing almost a full percentage point behind the overall rate of inflation, which stands at 2.4 percent as of the latest data release, and is even further behing the growth in average hourly earnings which have increased by 2.7 percent over the past twelve months.

The analysts pointed out that «past transactions in the Australian dairy segment have been executed at 8 to 12 times EBITDA [earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation], though in the last decade the range is more like 10.5 to 13.0 times on comparable consumer - facing businesses.»

While X-Men: The Last Stand managed to make more on its opening weekend, Days of Future Past has almost equaled that film in overall domestic earnings with $ 233,921,535 at the box office.

4) Now look at your actual writing earnings over the past twelve months from all sources (not just Amazon).

On the subject of valuations, I believe that the peak level of earnings seen in the past market cycle was somewhat high, so I'd agree with Bill Gross at PIMCO in the sense that we're not likely to see that level of earnings as the «norm.»

We'll look into the discount brokerage earnings that were released this past week, some new research products launched being launched for investors, and what looks like a new project under development at a popular discount broker.

The bulls argue that this premium is justified (or non-existent) because interest rates are low, earnings will stay elevated because US companies earn a greater share of income internationally, and the market has peaked at higher Shiller PEs in the past: 1929 peaked 33x, 2000 peaked at 44x, Japan got to 100x in the 1990s, and China has traded at 100x this year.

Emerson has grown its earnings per share at about 6 % annually for the past 5 years, and analysts» estimates for the next 5 years are for 8 % average annual growth.

The stocks should also have positive earnings over the past 12 months and should have a market cap of at least $ 1 billion with an average daily trading volume of at least 200,000 shares.

JP Morgan's Thomas Lee notes that if the S&P earnings yield merely equaled the high yield bond (a frequent past metric), the S&P 500 would be at 1600.

For context, Walgreens has traded at an average price - to - earnings ratio of 16.7 over the past ten years.

The risks are material if this bear market was to end at the average price - to - peak earnings multiple of past recessionary troughs.

Out of 9,194 stocks tracked by Standard & Poor's Compustat research service, 3,518 are now trading at less than eight times their earnings over the past year — or at levels less than half the long - term average valuation of the stock market as a whole.

For instance, take a look at Suncor's earnings over the past few years.

In the past, the kiddie tax applied to earnings that were taxed at the parents» tax rate.

They have demonstrated excellent earnings and dividend growth over the past 5 years and currently trade at a PE ratio of 12; lower than 90 % of the companies in their industry.

DIV STRK is consecutive years of dividend increases; DIV YLD is yield using the most recently announced dividend; 5 YR YLD is average dividend yield over the past 5 years; REC DG is most recent year - over-year dividend growth; 5 YR DG is average annual dividend growth over the past 5 years; PRICE was at market close Friday, March 2; FAIR VAL is Morningstar's «Fair Value Estimate»; FWD P / E is price / earnings ratio based on projected 2018 earnings; 5 YR P / E is average P / E ratio over the past 5 years; MOAT is Morningstar's rating of competitive economic advantage; SFT is Value Line's «Safety» score; CRD is Standard & Poor's credit rating; MKT CAP is market cap in billions of dollars.

But if you are looking out over the next five to ten years, I would recommend being patient and waiting at least until the stock trades at less than 20x earnings: History shows that opportunity shows up with quite a bit of regularity, even if the past two years don't feel like it.

Third, it has earnings growth resulting in at least one - third raise in EPS in the past 10 years.

With this first article, I will look at super-fast earnings growth of 20 % or better, past and future.

• Stable earnings growth in the last 20 years (correlation at least 0.8 out of 1.0) • Yearly earnings growth in the last 5 years at least 5 percent on average • Stable dividend growth in the past (correlation at least 0.9 out of 1.0) • Yearly dividend growth in the last 5 years at least 5 percent on average • No decreasing dividends for at least 10 years • Positive outlook for the earnings of the next business year

Not a single one showed that Shiller or Hussman or anyone else who specializes in a 20 - 20 view of the past was better at forecasting future earnings.

This report presented essential «fundamentals at a glance» illustrating the past and present valuation based on earnings achievements as reported.

Earnings have grown every year for at least the past 10 years but the stock just never responded until the past couple years.

At this point, we're long past my original (earnings & cash based) Intrinsic Fair Value target, so it's only logical to opt for my Relative Fair Value target (3.5 Price / Sales & Cash, based on comparable M&A multiples — which, frankly, I've never really understood — again, see my original TRIB post).

Looking back at our best investments from the past year, none of them would have looked cheap on the basis of superficial ratios (each of the successes mentioned above would have been trading at large multiples of both earnings and assets at the start of the year).

Pepsi has historically traded at a price / earnings ratio range of 13 to 24 in the past ten years.