Sentences with phrase «earnings power as»

Perhaps best described as a hybrid of the Graham and Buffett styles, we view both asset backing and earnings power as useful valuation tools, depending on the type of business we are investing in.

Because it owns extensive insurance operations that experience fluctuating profits, it is not as easy to determine Berkshire's normal earnings power as it would be, for say, Kraft's food packaging divisions which have pretty predictable demand for macaroni and cheese, Oscar Meyer hot dogs, and Maxwell House coffee, but still — $ 12 billion is a good estimate of what «normal» profits look like each year for Berkshire shareholders.

Not exact matches

«We're pleased with our improved performance in the quarter as it demonstrates the earnings power of our diversified franchise and shows what is possible with modest improvements in the environment and client activity, and we believe there is room for additional revenue and earnings growth, as we further diversify our global franchise across a broader client base with an expanded suite of products and services.»

But it's certain that a significant portion of income came from earnings from the NBC reality show and Trump's heightened earning power as a result of it, which helped him in years to follow.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Or as Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak put it in a research note this week, Snap stock «trades on different «visions»» of eventual «earnings power.»

«The stock prices are still not reflecting the earnings power that's likely to show up here in this quarter and for the year as a whole,» said Leo Grohowski, chief investment officer at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, which has been overweight the energy sector.

Some investors and analysts believe, based on the revenue growth and earnings power of that division, that if AWS was a standalone business it would be worth as much as $ 30 billion.

The company's net worth had soared as the market gave it a higher and higher price, or multiple, on its earnings power in its heady late 1990s under the tenure of the legendary Jack Welch.

As Nicholas Colas of ConvergEx wrote in a Friday note, «Against measures of long - term earnings power, the S&P 500 is clearly expensive at 25 (times) trailing 10 - year earnings.

On a recent earnings call, Mark Okerstrom, who joined Expedia as CEO and president last summer, said, «Over the long term, we have got to be mindful, and we always are mindful, of the incredible market power that Google has,» noting the importance of making sure Expedia's own products are credible and wide - reaching and that its user experiences are localized.

These three items, when taken together, can serve as the basis for understanding a company's earnings power from both a single customer and aggregate market perspective.

The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to «earning power» and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.»

As a result, many utilities could pursue a «virtuous cycle» — spending more capital on more wind farms, while in turn increasing earnings - per - share growth and lowering customer bills given how cheap wind power has become.

«It grows earnings not so much by the brilliance of management or the diversity of their operations, as Welch and Immelt claim, but through the acquisition of companies (more than 100 companies in each of the last five years) using high - powered, high P / E multiple GE stock or cheap near Treasury Bill yielding commercial paper.

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The company also considered factors such as occupancy costs, as well as each store's track record of profitability and forecasts for the earnings power of those stores going forward, given current sales trends and projections for the future.

Filmed Entertainment has been producing operating losses as far back as 2015 and acted as a drag on Viacom's earnings power; this is the first quarter of profitability in quite some time.

«Our strategy is to own high quality, modestly valued business over many years, to take advantage of the power of compounding as earnings grow.

Drivers such as earnings growth and momentum power markets in the near to medium term, in our view.

Delaying retirement by three to six months has the same effect on a retirement standard of living as saving an additional one - percentage point of earnings for 30 years, according to the new study The Power of Working Longer.

General Electric on Friday delivered quarterly earnings that surpassed analysts» expectations, as its businesses producing jet engines and power turbines offset declines in its oil and gas segment, but revenue fell short of estimates.

I see Visa as a company that could capably grow its earnings power at a mid-single-digit clip over the next decade, if not longer, making this a growth stock to buy and hold forever.

«Four ways to boost your earnings power,» for example, suggests moonlighting as a way of earning more income.

However, LinkedIn is more attractive at current levels than Twitter as its potential earnings power is easier to determine and has greater visibility.

Drivers such as earnings growth and momentum power markets in the near to medium term, in our view.

As a result, the real rate gives a more accurate assessment of the actual buying power of the investor's earnings.

As NEE announced during its Jan. 26 earnings call, both its Florida Power & Light and NextEra Energy Resources operations did superbly again in 2017.

Asset value is linked to earnings power value (always normalized so don't take 0 interest rates as a forever) while franchise value has the value of future growth in a franchise (pray for impentrable barriers to entry)

Generally speaking, we will sell a stock for one of four reasons: (1) the safety of the dividend payment has come into question due to unexpected fundamental weakness; (2) the company's long term earnings power appears to have become impaired as a result of new competition, secular changes, etc; (3) the stock's valuation reaches seemingly excessive levels; or (4) we have a new stock idea with a more attractive valuation and fundamental outlook.

For one thing, each tends to focus on different variables (e.g., corporate staying power vs. quarterly earnings as reported for GAAP purposes).

TAVF, on the other hand, analyzes different businesses differently, ranging from analyzing strict going concerns by giving heavy weight to earnings power, as for example AVX or Nabors; to analyzing businesses which are really investment companies masquerading as something else.

Quality of financial position plus quantity of resources, incidentally, translates into long - term earning power, whether that earning power evidences itself as unrealized and, therefore, unaccountable for appreciation of undeveloped land (St. Joe Paper); growing cash flows (Forest City Enterprises); enhanced attractiveness as a takeover candidate (Constellation Bancorp or DCA); or rapid increases over long periods in earnings per share as reported for GAAP purposes (SunAmerica).

Earning power will not necessarily be evidenced by earnings as reported for accounting purposes, but might also be measured by increases in unrealized, and therefore unreported, appreciation (e.g., St. Joe Paper), by increased cash flows (e.g., Forest City Enterprises), or by a company becoming an attractive sales, merger or acquisition candidate (e.g., Constellation Bancorp).

I want to own securities of Blue chip Aristocrats (companies with 25 + yrs of growing earnings) and once the earned passive dividend income covers all my expenses, I will own my time as well like a free bird Think about it: you can travel around world exploring beautiful exotic culture or even explore blue lagoons and white beaches, play golf or simply relax and have a power to make a difference in someone's life and do charities.

In fact, one reason many companies have overly high yields is because the stock price has fallen significantly, usually due to a loss in future earnings power, and this means the yield has moved up, but only temporarily, as the market is pricing in a dividend cut.

Though the distribution of the income by segment was quite different in the two quarters I take this as some kind of indication as to the potential earnings power on the current asset base.

Or else he will be partial to such as reveal other attractive statistical features besides their liquid - asset position, e.g., satisfactory current earnings and dividends, or a high average earning power in the past.

Earnings fell by less than 10 % during the financial crisis as well because people continued to need electricity to power their homes.

Feldman says that he often counsels individuals to «ladder» into permanent coverage, converting 20 percent of their term life policy every two years as their earnings power grows.

A retailer at 13 times earnings is often a bad use of your research time, because it's unlikely to have absurdly high market power (due to the industry it's in) and it's unlikely to be absurdly cheap (13 times earnings is a pretty ho - hum price that most stocks hit at some point in their history as a public company).

Thus, for value investors opportunity can be created by overreaction to a temporary stumble that is extrapolated out as a permantent reduction in earnings power or NAV.

But the prices of the reinsurers did not fall because pricing power returned, and investors expect higher future earnings as a result.

If you fly Frontier frequently, or are an Ascent or Summit you're better off springing for the fee - version of the MasterCard as the accelerated earnings power can make up for the $ 69 fee.

It would be natural to have some kind of price appreciation as earnings accelerate, but since 2008 (or even the peak prior) the acceleration in price far exceeds the acceleration in earnings power.

With a forecast for topline growth in construction, as well as power systems, and the headwinds from mining abating, earnings should again return to growth.

2) Adjusted book value (as above) plus earnings power value (owners earnings discounted at approp.

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If you fly Frontier frequently, or are an Ascent or Summit you're better off springing for the fee - version of the MasterCard as the accelerated earnings power can make up for the $ 69 fee.

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