Sentences with phrase «consistent earnings power»

• Simple understandable business • Consistent earnings power • Good return on equity • Little debt • Good management • $ 5 to $ 20 billion in size - the larger the better • Avoid turnarounds and hostile takeovers.

I use screens to identify industries and companies that show consistent earnings power over multiple economic cycles.

And, the company has begun to demonstrate steady, sustainable growth, and consistent earnings power with revenue rising by about 10 % per year for the past three years.

Buffett typically looks for targets that have strong brands, simple businesses and consistent earnings power.

Not exact matches

(1) Large purchases (at least $ 75 million of pre-tax earnings unless the business will fit into one of our existing units), (2) Demonstrated consistent earning power (future projections are of no interest to us, nor are «turnaround» situations), (3) Businesses earning good returns on equity while employing little or no debt, (4) Management in place (we can't supply it), (5) Simple businesses (if there's lots of technology, we won't understand it), (6) An offering price (we don't want to waste our time or that of the seller by talking, even preliminarily, about a transaction when price is unknown).