Sentences with phrase «business at book value»

Dell's net cash, its finance business at book value and the cost of recent acquisitions, which Dell says are doing well, add up to almost $ 13 a share, as Southeastern points out.

Not exact matches

«You could certainly write a book on why the US has yet to see a federal paid - leave policy — but the answers essentially come down to two distinct cultural elements at play in the US: the values we place in individualism and business,» she wrote.

During that earlier period, American business earned an average of 11 percent or so on equity capital employed and stocks, in aggregate, sold at valuations far above that equity capital (book value), averaging over 150 cents on the dollar.

They also told Knight that they wouldn't be doing any more business together unless they could buy 51 % of Blue Ribbon at book value.

Ideas of truly successful entrepreneurs are often at first considered ridiculous by the majority of the public, Isenberg says in his new book Worthless, Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).

Three books later, I travel the world speaking about Buffett's investment strategies, appear regularly on cable news, host the annual «Value Investor Conference,» and teach an Executive MBA course at the University of Nebraska at Omaha's College of Business Administration.

However, Buffett has noted that the metric has underrepresented Berkshire's intrinsic value because of the number of operating businesses Berkshire has acquired, which are held on the books at cost.

I was wondering how should shareholders value the 25 percent of the float that's been created by retrocession reinsurance where the business is booked at an underwriting loss and, at times, has adversely developed.

Vanshap employs a research - intensive process to identify businesses run by disciplined management teams trading at low multiples of tangible book value or cash earnings.

In a business where the management team can choose to return capital to shareholders if returns available are not adequate, we think at worst the business is worth book value.

If you decide to indie publish, understand the business of publishing enough to at least tell the readers (with your price) that your book has value.

We will spare no effort to resume normal business relations with Amazon — which has been a great partner for years — but under terms that value appropriately for the years ahead the author's unique role in creating books, and the publisher's role in editing, marketing, and distributing them, at the same time that it recognizes Amazon's importance as a retailer and innovator.

I believe it is a matter of value and as long as each store offers different things we value (like book signings at physical stores or free shipping) both will continue to stay in business.

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Second, in their new book, Value Investing — From Graham to Buffett and Beyond written by Bruce C.N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin and Michael van Biema (Greenwald and van Biema are faculty members at Columbia Business School), the authors seem to have trouble identifying, and valuing, net assets.

Investors should recognize that when they buy poor businesses (Nanos) at below book value, then while their original investment may have been made on a bargain basis, every successive investment made by them in the business through earnings retention happens at book value.

And you could look at the P / B ratio of 1.3 to determine valuation, but what I do is compare the P / B ratio to the ROE, which essentially values the business using a price to earnings ratio rather than price to book.

«Take a look at the business section next time you're in a bookshop and the chances are the smiling, bespectacled face of Warren Buffett will be looking at you from multiple book covers, advocating the merits of value investing.

In contrast, when investors buy great businesses (Jaguars) at above book value, then while their original investment may look expensive (and often turns out to be too expensive), every successive investment made by them in the business through earnings retention happens at book value.

Most service businesses trade at many multiples of book value.

What the price - to - book - based analysis hints at, however, are the merits of qualities that all value investors share, namely that you focus on qualities about a business as opposed to external factors and that you pay attention to market prices only in so far as they present the opportunity to buy shares at large discounts to what you conservatively estimate are their inherent worth.

If the department store is to be liquidated, merchandise inventories are indeed a current asset, convertible to cash within 12 months at prices that conceivably could be close to book value, although much less than book value may be realized if the merchandise is disposed of in a Going Out of Business sale.

Graham is considered the first proponent of value investing, an investment approach he began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd through various editions of their famous book Security Analysis.

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on value investing, an investment approach Graham began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd.

All else equal, we prefer our long book to be stacked with the greatest businesses imaginable because they surprise the world by compounding their value at unexpectedly high rates.

If you strip out the «returns» from its merchant banking (it spun off with assets with book value far below actual value and slowly reported profits when these discrepancies were recognized) and just look at the free cash flow of its operating businesses, the returns have been ok but nothing phenomenal.

And, certainly, most of our businesses, if we sold them whole, would sell at a substantial premium to tangible book value.

If you like our businesses, buying back stock at tangible book value is a very good deal.

But don't let its seemingly high share price fool you; the stock currently trades at roughly 1.7 times book value, a fair premium for such a high - quality business.

In a business where the management team can choose to return capital to shareholders if returns available are not adequate, we think at worst the business is worth book value.

The other thing I've noticed as I looked at the 10 year financial histories of these stocks is this: most of them are successfully growing their businesses (premium income seems to be steadily rising each year with most of them), and most of them are growing their book values.

For decades he has said he would only repurchase shares under certain conditions — specifically, if they're selling for less than 1.2 times book value, says David Kass, clinical professor of finance at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

It's our job to increase intrinsic business value — for which we use book value as a significantly understated proxy — at a faster rate than the market gains of the S&P.

I have a copy of Damodaran's The Dark Side of Valuation: Valuing Young, Distressed, and Complex Businesses (2nd Edition), weighing in at 575 pages, as well as his book Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset, Second Edition (similar size, with a quarter inch of dust on my shelf.

«In past reports I have noted that book value at most companies differs widely from intrinsic business value — the number that really counts for owners.»

Growth is hard to maintain in a competitive world, earnings can be manipulated with accounting, and — as David Einhorn reminded the audience at the 2006 Value Investing Congress — price - to - book ratios are pretty much irrelevant for non-capital intensive businesses.

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Business Platinum cardholders get a 35 percent bonus on their points if they book a flight on an airline that they designate at the beginning of each year — raising their potential point value to 1.35 cents for airfare.

Driving this development (not just in real estate — there are rating sites for doctors and lawyers, too) is popular literature, such as James Surowiecki's best - selling book, The Wisdom of Crowds (Anchor Books, 2005), which looked at the value of collective intelligence, and Groundswell (Harvard Business School Press, 2008), Forrester analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book on how companies can turn customers» connections to their advantage.

The pine table, snatched up at an Atlanta bookstore's going - out - of - business sale, has sentimental value for Mary Kay: She once did book signings at it.