Not exact matches
You'd think that corporate debt would
grow in proportion to total sales, as this additional debt is used to fund investments in productive activities that create more sales and contribute to the economy, and that higher sales, and presumably higher earnings would create a proportionate increase in the value of the
company, and thus in its stock price, and that they all go up together, not in lockstep but over time more or less
at the
same rate.
Sometimes the market will pay twenty times earnings for a
company growing at an annual compounded
rate of 30 percent; sometimes it will pay sixty times earnings for the
same company.
To use a simple example, if
Company A
grows its cash flows
at 6 % for 30 years and
Company B
grows at 3 % over the
same timeframe,
Company A is worth nearly 65 % more than
Company B today assuming that both
companies converge to a 3 % growth
rate thereafter1.
Aruanno says the
company is careful to
grow at a
rate that will allow it to support restaurants with the
same level of service it offers today and provide customers with the
same high - quality sandwiches.
The
company will likely
grow dividends
at around the
same rate.
# 116 aa3 on 02.18.18
at 10:29 am Right now I like the boring CDN utilities These
companies basically the best you can hope for is they
grow in value
at the
same rate the CDN economy
grows in nominal terms.
On the other hand, there are also
companies that are
growing their earnings
at rates of 12 % to 15 % or even higher that can also be found on these
same lists.
You'll need to ask how fast has the
company been
growing and can it continue to
grow at that
same rate or faster?
If you figure corporate earnings will
grow 3 % a year and the
company will increase its dividend
at the
same rate, you're looking
at a 6 % expected return.