Sentences with phrase «high earnings levels»

Same story as with FPA and Aston: in response to increasingly irrational activity in small cap investing (e.g., the numbers of firms being acquired at record high earnings levels), Intrepid is concentrated in a handful of undervalued sectors and cash.

Plus in some cases when they reach the high earnings levels a lot of players seem to have an «I've made it» attitude and reduce their overall levels of performance.

Not exact matches

SmartAsset looked at the median earnings for full - time working women, as well as the number of women with high - level degrees and those who own businesses.

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.

With the dollar now at the lowest level it's been in a decade, receipts in foreign currency are starting to translate into higher earnings, faster sales growth or both.

The election takes place amidst an improving global economy with global earnings revision ratios at 5.5 - year highs, global PMI's at their highest levels since early - 2014, Asian exports at 12 - month highs and US wage growth at 7 - year highs.

For people with higher levels of earnings, additional income is needed from the third pillar to meet this objective.

The Federal Reserve said the price - earnings ratios for U.S. stocks were «close to their highest levels outside of the 1990s» in its «Monetary Policy Report» released last month.

«With housing markets continuing to recover, we are experiencing high levels of demand,» Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Mezger said on a June 19 earnings call.

Median earnings growth expectations jumped to 2.7 percent, its highest level since the inception of the survey in June 2013.

Compared to where it was a year ago today, the stock is now trading at a higher level, reflecting both the market's overall trend during that period and the fact that the company's earnings growth has been robust.

Stock prices had sunk to levels previously unseen, and if you could locate companies that were not only cheap, but also had high quality earnings, the payoff could be enormous.

Median earnings growth expectations and median household income growth expectations increased to their highest levels since the inception of the survey in June 2013.

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.

One possible explanation is that earnings are at an unusually high level and likely to revert to normal levels that would be a reason why earnings - price ratios are low.

Strong earnings growth, not multiple expansion, has been the key driver of the Japanese stock market, which last week rose to its highest level since 2007.

We seek to invest in companies with stable earnings with a long - term business model and management team that we have a high level of comfort in.We seek to invest in solid companies run by strong managementteams that can navigate variable market conditions.

We seek to invest in companies with stable earnings with a long - term business model and management team that we have a high level of comfort in.

Only a combination of ignorance and alchemy would reward this higher level of earnings with a high P / E, when the source of the earnings was the acquisition of companies valued at low P / Es.

If you don't account for the fact that higher future stock levels will suddenly reintroduce all of that dilution, your projected earnings could be far off the mark.

Businesses have access to a high level of internal funding from retained earnings, and they have been able to raise funds through equity and non-intermediated debt issuance.

Hope for fiscal stimulus in the U.S., higher earnings - per - share growth, and the return of more normative levels of inflation could buoy sentiment during the first quarter of 2017.

If this earnings growth result stays at this level, it will be the second highest earnings season since 2011 as in that year we saw 11.6 % earnings growth.

Despite lower production levels, adjusted net earnings, operating cash flow, and free cash flow all increased compared to the prior - year period, primarily driven by higher gold prices.

Major technology companies such as Cisco and Apple reported strong earnings reports last week, pushing the U.S. technology sector up over 4 % and the NASDAQ Composite Index to its highest level since early 2000 for the week.

«Earnings and revenues are going to take the next level of the market to new highs,» says Rosenberg, who adds that the market isn't overvalued at current levels.

The cyclically adjusted price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio for U.S. stocks was at its highest level since March 2002 as of end - July according to Thomson Reuters data, a level last associated with a major market correction.

Also, on a fundamental level, if a growing economy supports a steeper yield curve with a significant difference between long and short yields, banks stand to benefit from stronger earnings due to higher net interest margin and increased lending revenues.

So assuming earnings growth is not affected, slower inflation and lower bond yields might support higher P / E levels.

The price / peak - earnings multiple is the ratio of the S&P 500 to the highest level of earnings attained to date, even if current earnings on the index have declined below that peak.

Medicare tax continues to have no level of maximum taxable earnings in 2018, meaning all earnings, no matter how high, face Medicare taxes.

A prudent investor will look at companies that have earnings with a high level of predictability that has been proven that they can can make money.

The Shiller Cyclically Adjusted Price to Earnings Ratio P / E10 is at high level of 33.5 (and P / E5 of 28.0), and a market correction is possible.

This is based on whether they succeeded in exceeding the high watermark level in earnings.

Firms of growth stocks all trade at high valuation levels, meaning they usually have high price - to - earnings (P / E) ratios.

Facebook recently breached the $ 189 level as earnings approach however recently sold off from these highs following news that Facebook would overhaul its news feed in favor of «meaningful social interactions» verses «relevant content».

This recovery is most evident in earnings from service exports, which rebounded strongly in the September quarter, to be about 3 1/2 per cent higher than the average level since the 2000 Sydney Olympics (Graph 45).

The coal producer said that net income was higher by nearly a sixth from year - ago levels, but adjusted pre-tax operating earnings dropped by double - digit percentages, and overall revenue was down 4 % compared to the first quarter of 2017.

One way to represent this juxtaposition is by noting that labor - compensation's share of GDP fell to 53 % by 2016 from a recent high of 58 % in 2001 while corporate earnings» share of GDP rose to 11 % from 2001 levels of 7 % — illustrating the vast outperformance of financial assets versus the real income gains of the populace.

Overall, the study found that the longer children were breastfed, up to twelve months, they went to school longer, had higher levels of intelligence and reported higher earnings.

The higher your level of education, the greater your earnings and your sense of «personal mastery» or being in control of your fate, University of Toronto researchers say.

As a result, Puma raised its 2017 earnings forecast and, its stock price rose more than five percent to its highest level in almost a decade.

We are oriented on high level of work and good earnings, so we will be motivating you by different privileges.»

Third, even if graduate degrees remain a good investment on average, black students clearly face substantially greater financial risk in pursuing them given their higher levels of borrowing and lower average earnings.

[2] More recent work that tracks debt outcomes for individual borrowers documents that the main problem is not high levels of debt per student (in fact, defaults are lower among those who borrow more, since this typically indicates higher levels of college attainment), but rather the low earnings of dropout and for - profit students, who have high rates of default even on relatively small debts.

Among the book's more «robust» conclusions, to use the economists» term, is that the high Swedish expenditure on adult education (which is very well developed in Sweden, as a resource for unemployed workers and as a way of upgrading or changing one's credentials) is not warranted by its returns: But how could it be, when, we learn, «individuals received student pay [all students are paid in Sweden — part of the commitment to equality] at the level of unemployment benefits, which in Sweden replace up to 80 percent of forgone earnings.»

In particular, we use existing research about how much a high level of achievement boosts the earnings of an individual worker, combined with our new measures of the average achievement levels of workers in each state, to gauge the contribution of differences in achievement to differences in income levels across states.

Johnson outlined in the Guardian the view that tuition fees allow the Government to reconcile its three policy objectives for undergraduate higher education: to reduce inequality, to fund institutions on a level which facilitates global competitiveness, and also to share the cost «between the individual student benefitting from a graduate earnings premium and taxpayers in general, most of whom will not have attended university.»

Nothing in the PISA data allows us to identify crucial aspects of performance pay schemes, such as the way in which teacher performance is measured, the size of the incremental earnings received by higher - performing teachers, or very much about the level of government at which or the manner in which decisions on merit pay are made.

Thus, an increase in the level of achievement in high school of a standard deviation yields an average increase of between $ 110,000 and $ 230,000 in lifetime earnings.