Not exact matches
According to Martin, all of these things, plus an attractive price - to -
earnings ratio of 16.7 times — the industry
average is 20.6 times, she writes — make CBS a
buy.
The team found that investors that
bought straddles five days before
earnings, then closed those positions the day after the report, would've made an
average profit of 24 %, with a success rate of 56 %.
We agree with the bulls and believe that even if Best
Buy loses market share, it can use excess capital to repurchase shares, which would allow the company to achieve above -
average per - share
earnings growth.
Buying stocks with an
earnings yield at least twice that of the AAA bond rate would have generated an
average compound growth in price over the 50 - year period of 19.9 %, versus 7.5 % for the Dow Jones industrial
average;
Clearly, a good route to realizing above -
average returns would have been adhering to a process — even a very simple one — for
buying companies at low prices in relation to their sales, book values, or
earnings.
Written by Rob Bennett, This Is the Best Time in History to Be a Stock Investor is an excellent look at P / E10 (price to
earnings, but using an
average of the prior 10 years
earnings) and why Rob concludes we are in a positive
buying environment.
If investors are not very good at predicting companies» future
earnings — and there is good evidence they are not [3]-- then by
buying a basket of companies that have low prices to book value, you will end up paying relatively low prices for an
average collection of future
earnings.
The
buy price should not be more than 15 times
average earnings over the past 3 years.
The basic idea is that you want to
buy stocks with significantly above -
average earnings growth.
Buffett after he was done with the net net thing and by the mid 1960's and with Mungers influence would
buy a basket of
average business that he could make good
earnings yield on and looked like pretty good business and
bought them during a correction of an industry or general stock market correction then sell them once they became higher valued..
Because of mean reversion, I'd rather ignore ROIC — or give it minimal attention — if it allows me to
buy a group of stocks with a lower
average earnings multiple.
I guess the lesson for me is that if I'm
buying a spread of cigar butt companies — a la Walter Schloss or Ben Graham — I'm not willing to pay a higher
average earnings multiple for a basket of high ROIC companies.
In Reckitt Benckiser's case, the
average earnings were 122.5 p when I
bought the shares.
Facebook revealed yesterday during its strong quarterly
earnings call that in the last year, Facebook's
average revenue per user grew 49.1 percent in the U.S. and Canada — Facebook's home market where advertiser concentration,
buying power and fast mobile networks make video and video ads popular.
With the football season now in full swing, MatchedBets have compiled the
average wages of fans of each team and compared them to player
earnings to see how long it would take to
buy a house near the ground.