Sentences with phrase «earnings than common stock»

Preferred Stock: has a higher claim on assets and earnings than common stock.

Not exact matches

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

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

It's common to object to the dividend yield as a measure of valuation, given that companies have devoted more of their earnings to stock repurchases than dividend payments in recent years.

Issues defined as «growth stocks» have a number of common traits, but the most important is that their earnings are expected to grow at a faster pace than the broader market over a period of time.

«Common stocks of enterprises with only slight possibilities of increasing profits ordinarily sell at a rather low P / E ratio (less than 15 times their current earnings); and the common stocks of companies with good prospects of increasing the earnings usually sell at a high P / E ratio (over 15 times their current earnings).&Common stocks of enterprises with only slight possibilities of increasing profits ordinarily sell at a rather low P / E ratio (less than 15 times their current earnings); and the common stocks of companies with good prospects of increasing the earnings usually sell at a high P / E ratio (over 15 times their current earnings).&common stocks of companies with good prospects of increasing the earnings usually sell at a high P / E ratio (over 15 times their current earnings).»

... if a common stock can be bought at no more than two - thirds of the working - capital alone — disregarding all other assets — and if the earnings record and prospects are reasonably satisfactory, there is strong reason to believe that the investor is getting substantially more than his money's worth.

Interest is, of course, a cash cost, while capitalization rates for publicly - traded common stocks have nothing to do with most companies, since they do the bulk of their equity financing by retaining earnings rather than by selling new issues of common stock to the public.

At July 31, 2002, common stock investments in NAV driven (rather than earnings driven) companies accounted for 54 % of the Fund's common stock portfolio.

For TAVF, our common stock portfolio is invested in the issues of companies which enjoy great financial strength, and where the price of the common stock is much closer to the amount of retained earnings than is the case for general market common stocks.

Net - Current - Asset Value We feel on more solid ground in discussing these cases in which the market price or the computed value based on earnings and dividends is less than the net current assets applicable to the common stock.

Common characteristics associated with stocks selling at less than 66 % of net current asset value are low price / earnings ratios, low price / sales ratios and low prices in relation to «normal» earnings; i.e., what the company would earn if it earned the average return on equity for a given industry or the average neti ncome margin on sales for such industry.

At any time, and for most issues, G&D have correctly observed that for the stand - alone going concern, the market price of its common stock is likely to be influenced much more by current earnings than by current book value.

If Toyoda used «look through» accounting where, besides dividends, the Toyoda income account also included Toyoda's equity in the undistributed earnings attributable to the common stocks of portfolio companies, then the PE ratio would be materially more modest than 50 times earnings.

ii.The vast majority of equity financing takes place via having the company retain earnings, rather than having the company market new issues of common stock.

«As for common stocks, they should trade at an earnings or FCF yield greater than that of the highest after - tax yield on debts and other instruments.»