Sentences with phrase «earnings ratios based»

We prefer profitable companies and award higher grades to firms with positive price - to - earnings ratios based on their earnings over the past 12 months.

While price - earnings ratios based on recent or expected earnings can sometimes be misleading, book value often provides a steadier gauge of a company's value.

Since that time, the market's P / E on «forward operating earnings» has generally been substantially lower than the price / peak earnings ratio based on the highest level of trailing net earnings to - date.

UBS strategist David Cassidy says local shares offer relatively good value based on a market wide price to earnings ratio based on 12 months forward earnings below a multiple of 13.

To do this, he compares the current price - earnings ratio based on earnings for the trailing 12 months (last four fiscal quarters) to the forward price - earnings ratio based on estimated earnings.

Here we will be calculating a Price - to - Earnings ratio based on trailing - twelve - months (TTM) earnings.

The price - earnings ratio based on forecasted earnings for the next fiscal year is no more than one - half the projected long - term growth rate in earnings per share

However, when comparing the price - earnings ratio based on estimated earnings for the current fiscal year to the estimated long - term growth rate in earnings (or estimated PEG ratio), we see a much different story.

DIV STRK is consecutive years of dividend increases; DIV YLD is yield using the most recently announced dividend; 5 YR YLD is average dividend yield over the past 5 years; REC DG is most recent year - over-year dividend growth; 5 YR DG is average annual dividend growth over the past 5 years; PRICE was at market close Friday, March 2; FAIR VAL is Morningstar's «Fair Value Estimate»; FWD P / E is price / earnings ratio based on projected 2018 earnings; 5 YR P / E is average P / E ratio over the past 5 years; MOAT is Morningstar's rating of competitive economic advantage; SFT is Value Line's «Safety» score; CRD is Standard & Poor's credit rating; MKT CAP is market cap in billions of dollars.

Not exact matches

The combined ratio as used in this earnings release is the equivalent of, and is calculated in the same manner as, the SAP combined ratio except that the SAP underwriting expense ratio is based on net written premiums and the underwriting expense ratio as used in this earnings release is based on net earned premiums.

The latest calculations were based on an earlier finding by the groups that earnings for CEOs in the U.K.'s benchmark FTSE 100 dropped by a fifth in 2016 to 4.5 million pounds ($ 5.4 million) annually and another showing a CEO - to - worker pay ratio of 120 to 1.

Kraft Heinz's own price - to - earnings ratio, based on the last recorded 12 months of profits, is just 19.

The market's price - to - earnings ratio (based on the latest 12 months reported results) raced higher in late 2017 and through January on growth - stock leadership and enthusiasm over tax - cut - juiced profit windfalls for companies.

U.S. common stocks currently are still more expensive, based on price - earnings ratio comparisons, than foreign common stocks.

As earnings is calculated based on General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), a company could show a high payout ratio, but a lower cash payout ratio.

Equity markets have appreciated sharply in recent years, and valuations, based on price - to - earnings ratios, in developed markets were not cheap relative to their historical averages as of late 2017.

Remember that the payout ratio is calculated based on earnings.

However, a simple price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio, whether based on a snapshot in time or a smoothed measure of earnings, can be more useful, providing some indication of the possible distribution of future returns, our analysis shows.

I recommend that the government set a cap on each corporation's earnings to payroll ratio based upon their history using W2's and SEC earnings filings.

Based on our framework, real estate, utilities, and telecom currently have the lowest relative valuations, based largely on their compellingly low price - to - earnings (P / E) raBased on our framework, real estate, utilities, and telecom currently have the lowest relative valuations, based largely on their compellingly low price - to - earnings (P / E) rabased largely on their compellingly low price - to - earnings (P / E) ratios.

This relates to a price - to - earnings ratio of 36.55 based on a TTM earnings per share of $ 1.29.

Currently, EM equities trade at a 25 % discount to DM equities based on the price / earnings ratio, thus offering better value.

Fitch Ratings, confirming its BBB rating — the second - lowest investment grade — and a stable outlook, said today the rating «would come under pressure» if there was no clear expectation of the Paris - based company's ratio of adjusted net debt to earnings staying below 2.5 times in the «medium» term.

Have you considered adding another Payout % Ratio column based on cash flow instead of earnings?

Often a company's Payout Ratio can be lower if it's based on Cash Flow because the earnings can be affected by items like depreciation that have no bearing on how much real cash is available.

Rapid share price growth and high valuations based on standard metrics, such as price / earnings ratio or price / sales, characterize a tech bubble.

The most reliable measures of individual stock valuation we've found are based on formal discounted cash flow considerations, but among publicly - available measures we've evaluated, price / revenue ratios are better correlated with actual subsequent returns than price / earnings ratios (though normalized profit margins and other factors are obviously necessary to make cross-sectional comparisons).

The remaining stocks are assigned a rank based on the ratio of their dividend yield to payout ratio (the same as a trailing earnings / price ratio, or the inverse of the trailing P / E ratio).

In VFC's case, that basic estimate is based on reference point price - to - earnings ratio (P / E) of 15, which is the long - term average P / E of the stock market as a whole.

That basic estimate is based on a standard reference price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio of 15, which is shown by the orange line on the following chart.

They might look expensive based solely on their earnings ratios, but if their lack of profits means they're growing rapidly, they're probably still going to be a strong investment in the long run.

While we don't know exactly how Vanguard selects these value stocks, we can guess that they are trading at P / E ratios that are relatively low based on current and future earnings.

While the current price / peak - earnings multiple is already at an elevated level above 18, what I'll call the «P / E equivalent» multiples on other fundamentals are: 21 on the basis of book values, nearly 23 on the basis of enterprise value / EBITDA (which factors in the increasing share of debt on corporate balance sheets), over 25 on the basis of revenues, and 29 on the basis of dividends (largely because dividend payout ratios remain relatively low even on the basis of normalized earnings).

They began decades ago when people created computer scripts that would automatically select stocks based off certain criteria, like market price, market capitalization, volume, moving averages, trends, reversals, price - to - earnings ratios, and a million other metrics.

P / E ratios formed on the basis of these earnings figures implicitly assume that current record profit margins will be maintained indefinitely.

Stock investments have varying growth prospects and are typically analyzed based on characteristics such as estimated future earnings and price - to - earnings ratios.

The Forbes rankings for the «400 Best Big Companies in America» are based on stringent criteria including accounting and governance ratings, revenue, positive equity, long - term earnings growth and debt - to - capital ratios.

A value stock, on the other hand, refers to shares of a company with solid fundamentals that are priced below those of its peers, based on analysis of price / earnings ratio, yield, and other factors.

That basic estimate is based on a reference price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio of 15.

Typically, I like this ratio to be well below 80 % as it would indicate a sustainable dividend yield with room for future growth based on current earnings.

SPYG is a solid large - cap growth fund, holding roughly 300 companies selected from the popular S&P 500 Index based on three growth factors: sales growth, the ratio of earnings change to price, and momentum.

I generally base these P / E ratios on peak - earnings.

That was a bit worse than even the estimate based on a terminal P / E of 7, because the brutal 1974 bottom formed a sharp but temporary «V.» In contrast, in the 10 years beginning in 1990 (when the price / peak - earnings ratio was close to 11), the S&P 500 achieved a total return of fully 20 % annually.

Based on newly released quarterly earnings figures, the S&P 500's price / peak earnings ratio is nearly 20.

A stock certificate trading at high valuation based on traditional measures such as price earnings ratio.

When diving into the valuation ratios based on trailing earnings and free cash flow, the energy sector offered a choice was between E&P and Integrated oil companies that had sustained large drops in their earnings, and Refiners who had an earnings yield close to 12 %, and had seen an uptick in earnings.

As I've noted in recent weeks (see in particular the March 27 comment, my assertion that stocks are about double their normal historical valuations also applies to earnings - based measures like P / E ratios.

Shiller, on the other hand, is more concerned about the stock market based on his valuation method, the cyclically adjusted price - earnings (CAPE) ratio, which is based on an average of 10 years» worth of earnings.

Based on this, the stock has a price - to - earnings ratio of 19.0.

The key takeaways are: 1) without using a discounted cash - flow model, the PE ratio that should be applied to a company's earnings stream can never be appropriately calculated, and by extension, 2) when investors assign an arbitrary price - to - earnings multiple to a company's earnings (based on historical trends or industry peers or the market multiple), they are essentially making estimates for all of the drivers behind a discounted cash - flow model in one fell swoop (and sometimes hastily).