Sentences with phrase «economic profit as»

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And while the spread has widened in the late stages of economic expansion, Bernstein notes that this is the first time the gap has grown because of an acceleration in operating earnings as opposed to a fall in reported profit (see the third chart).

As inflation rises in tandem with economic growth, growth stocks» future potential profits look less enticing compared with the steady profits of value companies, many of which are in industries where they can pass their costs through to customers.

Over the past decade, patient investors benefited greatly from one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history, using stocks, gold and even cryptocurrency as vehicles of profit.

When choosing countries to invest in, Langham looks at the price - to - book ratio of the national stock indexes rather than price - to - earnings, as it's difficult to predict profits in a weak economic environment.

But if this economic cycle indeed has another extended leg in — as plenty of indicators suggest — and companies can keep the profit machine running along with stock buybacks and mergers, there's no saying the market as a whole can't work its way a good deal higher before it reaches its ultimate peak.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

After fighting entrenched deflation for decades, Japan may be turning the tide, as falling unemployment pushes up wages, adding momentum to a recovery in consumer demand that could help lift economic growth, corporate profits, and stocks.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

Unfortunately, budget forecasts do not provide a breakdown of the various components of nominal GDP, such as wages and salaries, corporate profits, interest income, etc., so it is difficult to properly assess the impact of changes in the economic forecast to changes in the major components of budgetary revenues.

Despite improving profitability, upcoming product releases (detailed below) and strong economic trends, HAS» current valuation implies meager profit growth, as we'll show below.

China's biggest lenders are in the midst of a revival, posting faster profit growth and generally healthier net interest margins after years of rising bad debt as economic growth slowed down.

Bank of America reported a slide in profit as concerns about an economic slowdown and uncertainty about the pace of rate increases dampened trading.

Peak earnings rattle equity investors: Profit peaks, perhaps as now, don't spell the death knell for stocks though they intensify the importance of economic growth and earnings.

Our analysis shows that profits can improve even with rising wages — indeed, this is a hallmark of reflationary economic phases, as the chart below shows.

I think of the economic book value as the no - growth value of the business or the value of the business if existing profits stay flat forever.

A portion of the authors net profits from the book launch was donated to Green America, a not - for - profit organization founded in 1982 (as Co-op America) with a mission to harness economic powerthe strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplaceto create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

As such, earned income excludes economic rent and interest, which are property and financial returns that must be paid out of profits and wages.

The profit motive, capitalism and free enterprise are the backbone to our economic system, and as such are the key to future growth and prosperity, individually and collectively.

This is outstanding news to active Bitcoin traders looking to maximize their profits as Greece, China, and other countries are in economic disarray.

When these spirits are aroused and businesses start to see demand strengthening, economic momentum accelerates.2 As sales improve and profits rise, businesses become more confident.

The brewer maintained its full - year profit margin guidance but warned of «continued adverse economic conditions» in emerging markets, Africa in particular, as well as «increasing currency headwinds.»

Current facts on inequality and economic growth make as strong a case for public policy to increase a variety of employee share ownership and profit - sharing formats as in the early days of the Republic.

But even if America's future average economic growth is as steep as optimists believe, say just over 4 % a year, the current level of share prices implies that profits will rise even faster.

The expanding national economic growth in countries as China and India profit with the economic growth because they are the only sizeable strong and stable economies projected to record over 5 % growth rates in 2009.

Not surprisingly, Qlik's GAAP net income, net operating profit after - tax (NOPAT), ROIC, and economic earnings have declined as the company has focused more on non-GAAP metrics.

Valuentum's Economic Castle ™ rating assumes that «economic profit» (as measured by ROIC less WACC) is the primary factor in assessing the value that a company generates for shareEconomic Castle ™ rating assumes that «economic profit» (as measured by ROIC less WACC) is the primary factor in assessing the value that a company generates for shareeconomic profit» (as measured by ROIC less WACC) is the primary factor in assessing the value that a company generates for shareholders.

As a result of this, the competition in the industry is extremely high, leading profit to only improve marginally over the period, despite noticeably improved economic conditions.

And with corporate profits still well below their previous peaks and valuations as of November 2017 looking fair given the more promising economic environment, European equities look to us to be potentially poised for another solid year in 2018.

Oil prices fell on Friday as investors cashed out big weekly profits after a rally driven by disruptions to crude supplies and Wall Street's gains from U.S. economic data.

But pullbacks that occur against the backdrop of sustained economic expansion and rising corporate profits — as is the case currently — present attractive opportunities for long - term investors.

To academics, economic rent is defined as the excess return over and above «profit.»

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.

As if to support this outlook, the Commerce Department released economic data last Friday that shows fourth - quarter 2015 corporate profits fell at their fastest rate since — you guessed it — the same period in 2008.

The chart below, prepared by staff in our Economic area, undertakes a comparison of corporate sector profits in the national accounts as a share of GDP, for the US and Australia.

Corrections driven by emerging cracks in the economic foundation can turn into bear markets as a recession emerges and corporate profits decline.

As discussed in the chapter on «Domestic Economic Activity», the subdued business borrowing largely reflects that businesses have been able to rely on strong profits to finance investment.

Profits at Japanese automakers have surged in yen terms as the Japanese currency weakened against the U.S. dollar over the past year, helped by a mammoth Bank of Japan effort to expand the money supply and ignite inflation to end years of economic stagnation.

Some think of it as no more than a libertarian system, concerned with economic liberty alone, exaggeratedly individualistic, indifferent or even antithetical to welfare programs for the poor, unconcerned with the public good, focused solely on markets and private profit.

They may allow «national planning» of a sort (as in France); they may allow welfare programs; they may allow some progressive taxation; but what they will not allow is an invasion of the autonomy of the private corporation so that economic decisions can be coordinated and made on a basis other than profits.

On Thursday, Pope Francis continued with his economic message by tweeting «My thoughts turn to all who are unemployed, often as a result of a self - centred mindset bent on profit at any cost,» to his almost 2.5 million followers.

It lets everyone share the economic value of the land rather than the land itself, just as a corporation, instead of carving up physical portions of itself each year, lets shareholders enjoy portions of the profit.

We see socialism as a new social and economic order in which workers and consumers control production and community residents control their neighborhoods, homes and school and the production of society is used for the benefit of all humanity, not the private profit of a few..

Although elites in many Third World countries, and in formerly Second World countries as well, have profited from economic globalization and cooperated with it, even they are beginning to recognize its catastrophic consequences.

The notion that firms seek to maximize profits is a cornerstone of economic analysis (and a sound one, as most firms do behave this way), but it begs the question what firms ought to do, based on ethical and moral grounds.

In these circumstances it is inevitable that during a period of economic «bust» scholars will begin asking whether the risk - taker, the government, should go further and take the profits as well.

It fashions society into an economic organization in which production for profit becomes the central enterprise, in which the economic relations of men are regarded as their fundamental relations, in which economic privileges are most highly prized, and in which the resultant classes of men are set to struggle with one another for the economic goods.

For two decades, liberation theologians blamed Latin American misery on «capitalist methods» such as markets, private property, and profits, and they looked for economic salvation by way of a «socialist» strategy of «basic needs.»

The report on this subject frankly acknowledged that «the missionary enterprise, coming as it does out of an economic order dominated almost entirely by the profit motive,» has not been «so sensitive to those aspects of the Christian message as would have been necessary sensibly to mitigate the evils which advancing industrialization has brought in its train,» and then proceeded to scrutinize mercilessly the exploitation of backward peoples as the result of the economic penetration of Africa and Asia by the West.

-- The Illusion Of Wealth Within Football» uses a very different methodology to most analysis of football accounts by applying a concept known as economic profit.

* Notwithstanding that, as a consequence of global economic crisis from 2008 on, Arsenal profited to nothing like the degree that they had hoped.