Sentences with phrase «book value of your firm»

In this awkward situation you continue to produce oil, because it may keep you from defaulting on your debts, even though you are not earning what is needed to justify the GAAP book value of your firm.

Not exact matches

The firm attributes 30 % to 40 % of its profits to the U.S., and trades at a bigger - than - average 75 % discount to tangible book value.

The financial services research firm KBW estimated roughly $ 800 million in losses to the book value of Berkshire Hathaway (brka).

Even if Southwest were to never again grow profits from current levels, the economic book value, or no growth value of the firm is $ 52 / share — a 33 % upside from current valuation.

A senior vice-president at Hachette Digital, a unit of one of the world's largest publishing firms, tells the Journal that she believes «there has been a change in the understanding of the value of a digital book,» and that readers see the added value and are willing to pay extra for it.

Burkle may believe that the real estate under Barnes & Noble's stores has hidden value, and if he gets control of the company, it may be based on his gamble that the real estate is worth more than the book firm's $ 1 billion market cap.

Some 96 % of Canadian firms currently have positive book values and 57 % sport positive earnings.

The price to tangible book value ratio to some degree overcomes this issue and more closely represents what common shareholders can expect to receive if the firm goes bankrupt and all of its assets are liquidated at their book values.

The firm almost doubled its book value per share over the last five years after it was hard hit by the crash of 2008.

If you want to understand the nuances of how a firm doing value investing works, I can't think of a better book, because this book implicitly goes over all of the choices that a value investor has to make.

The firm pays a generous 6.4 % dividend yield, and it trades at 9.3 times earnings and at 72 % of book value — a bargain based on the numbers.

Percentile rank of price - to - book - value ratio is below a given measure (i.e., percent rank less than or equal to 10 % of the firms trading on the NYSE)

Because of the lower risk in P&C insurers, a firm only needs to earn an ROE of 6.6 % to have a book value valuation.

As Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny showed in Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk, within the set of firms whose B / M ratios are the highest (in other words, the lowest price - to - book value), further sorting on the basis of another value variable — whether it be C / P, E / P or low GS — enhances returns.

Recently, SFAS 159 has come into the news because some securities firms used it to book gains because the market value of debt that they issued had fallen.

... is designed to track the performance of the largest US equities, selected based on the following four fundamental measures of firm size: book value, cash flow, sales and dividends.

Piotroski recognized that, although it has long been shown that value stocks (or high book - to - market firms as he calls them) have strong returns as a group, there is nevertheless a very wide variability in terms of the returns of these stocks, with most of them performing worse than the market.

The book ends with real world case studies that illustrate the value investing principles in the book with examples of how his firm evaluated and invested in companies during the recession of 2008.

Each month, he forms three groups of eight equally weighted portfolios of industries ranked separately by: (1) beta based on rolling regressions of industry returns versus value - weighted market returns over the past 60 months; (2) value based on the latest available industry book - to - market ratios (value - weighted composites of component firm book - to - market ratios, updated annually); and, momentum based on lagged six - month industry returns.

The short version of the thesis is that EGI is a well - reserved insurer trading at 63 % of tangible book value and, unlike many other lines of insurance, it may very well be entering a firming non-standard automobile market in Canada.

So, that's my preferred measure for how much has the underlying value of the firm increased: growth in fully diluted tangible book value (ex-AOCI), adding back dividends, and subtract out net equity issuance / buyback measured not at cost, but at the current market price.

Growth in fully diluted tangible book value (ex-AOCI) is a good measure of firm performance, if you add back dividends, and subtract out net equity issuance / buyback measured not at cost, but at the current market price.

Book values capture none of this and thus ignore completely the most critical assets which a firm possesses.

Book value tells you the accounting value of a firm after it pays all of its debt.

It's a mortgage insurance firm that trades at only 7 times earnings and 84 % of book value due to worries about excesses in the Canadian real estate market.

I had found a really good fare that would allow me to try out the 787 - 9 Dreamliner on three separate segments but booking it would mean breaking one of my few firm travel rules — I absolutely will not book a flight if I can't see what seat I'm going to be in (seat selection at the time of booking is one of the frequent flyer benefits I value most).

Many scenarios can go wrong with the client, and before you know it, your very respectable book of business has disappeared — along with your value to the firm.

Irwin Mitchell is planning to buy up books of personal injury (PI) work from other law firms in response to the Government's overhaul of the low - value claims system and its impact on PI profit margins.

The book has also compelled me to look at whether developing some expertise in one or more of the potential new roles for lawyers would add value to my firm's current practice.

Although not a strict requirement of the opportunity, our firm values work experience gained outside the practice of law and also places a high monetary value on the ability to generate and maintain a book of business.

The last few chapters of the book deal with the practical issues of succession planning: valuing of a firm, creating a strategy for a partner's exit, and searching for candidates.

Skinner writes of that remark and the debate that it created in his forthcoming book ValueWeb: How Fintech Firms are Using Bitcoin Blockchain and Mobile Technologies to Create the Internet of Value.

In fact, with a debt to total assets ratio of approximately 98 percent, virtually any bid General Growth receives in today's environment will be at a discount to the book value of its properties, says Suzanne Mulvee, senior real estate economist with Property & Portfolio Research, a Boston - based research firm.