Sentences with phrase «highest stock price»

This is the highest their stock price has been the last 5 years.

It looks for relatively undervalued stocks but tries to avoid value traps by only selecting the companies with the highest stock price increase over the last 6 months.

«The strategy is definitely sound on paper (and definitely works when you model it in an Excel spreadsheet), but we do not believe it will result in a higher stock price in the nearterm,» Cowen & Co. said in a note.

Sentiment continues to benefit from falling unemployment, favorable housing market conditions, low gas prices, and high stock prices among other things.

There is a «solid economic foundation» in place that will support higher stock prices across the globe for the next three to five years, investment expert Kevin Mahn told CNBC on Tuesday.

The above chart is pretty striking in that it shows just how much CEO pay has outstripped even the stock market, as higher stock prices are one way in which ever - higher executive pay is justified.

I noted a week ago that Bernanke had essentially eased monetary policy by spurring a loosening of financial conditions via higher stock prices, lower bond yields, tighter credit spreads, and a weakening of the U.S. dollar.

But because it has gained market share and killed off a lot of its brick - and - mortar competition, investors have rewarded it with a high stock price.

«If... investors start to value Citigroup like it's an electric utility, it should trade at a much higher stock price,» Nygren says.

The trouble is that most companies don't realize their halcyon days will be fleeting, so they aren't opportunistic enough with their high stock price.

Mr. Campbell, for example, notes a couple of plausible explanations for higher stock prices: the lack of recent world wars, for example, and the spread of stock ownership to a larger group of investors, which distributes risk more broadly.

But corporate profits will need to keep growing to justify the higher stock prices.

The robust balance sheets of corporations help justify high stock prices.

Even so, high stock prices don't necessarily signify a strong economy.

The share price plunge represents a 42 percent fall from the Snapchat owner's all - time high stock price of $ 29.44 in March, and highlights the waning confidence that investors have on the company.

And of course, the higher stock price lifts the value of company stock they already own.

This is lower volatility than many other stocks in percentage terms, but because of the high stock price (absolute, not a reflection of value) the moves are large in absolute dollar terms.

Some companies enjoy having high stock prices.

Granted, most people won't personally benefit from higher stock prices.

CAPE indicates stocks are currently valued at nearly twice what they have been in the past, but even Shiller himself admitted earlier this year that high stock prices don't necessarily mean it's time to sell.

In fact, only a permanently low equity risk premium can justify the high stock prices we now enjoy.

# 1 ranked Trader by Timer's Digest with a 31.6 % return for 2017 is still looking for higher stock prices and has switched to bullish Gold in last evenings letter after going bearish the US Dollar on March 2nd.

In some cases, a high rate of earnings or revenue growth may justify a high stock price valuation, particularly if the company has a competitive advantage in its market.

But the revenue and earnings growth that could support a higher stock price have been hard to come by.

Because of the upbeat guidance period and healthy profit surprises so far this quarter, investors have awarded companies with higher stock prices.

Is it one with higher stock prices?

Hopefully that will translate into a higher stock price and continued increase in dividends.

All of this suggests that the Fed may not be cheerleading higher stock prices.

As Bloomberg reported in a June 16th article headlined «The $ 31 Billion Hole in GE's Balance Sheet That Keeps Growing,» GE spent roughly $ 45 billion on share repurchases in 2015 and 2016 — at substantially higher stock prices — while a $ 30 billion - plus shortfall was building in its pension plans.

Although the central bank has played down its impact on the market, the irony is that the Fed has itself complained about high stock prices.

After an extended period of record - high stock prices and record - low volatility, the current dip offers an opportunity to:

Again, if our measures of market internals were to improve, we would allow for the possibility that reliable measures of market valuations could surpass their 2000 extreme, and we would not place a «cap» on how high stock prices could move.

Contingent Convertibles: A bond that is convertible to shares of common stock at a predetermined price; however, there is also a second, higher stock price level that must be reached before the conversion can be executed.

Additionally, the energy sector is under - owned by institutions and thus is the target of accumulation that supports higher stock prices.

And, in essence, I think that quantitative easing, through the push for higher stock prices, created more problems than it has solved for the economy.

Notice the direct connection between higher stock prices and increased spending.

The Qualcomm saga feels like a movie I have seen a hundred times before and the ending is a much higher stock price.

Needless to say, this caused an explosion in interest for the stock of Zhejiang Enjoyor Electronics Co., Ltd., resulting in increased sales and a higher stock price.

Currently, shares are trading around $ 26.75, highs the stock price hasn't seen since before the Great Recession.

Riding the wave of record high stock prices on Wall Street, the fund providing pension benefits for California teachers and school administrators reported Monday that it earned a return of 18.66 percent on its assets for the year that ended June 30.

The higher the stock price volatility, the more the stock price moves.

I understand that if you're running, say, Apple, then if you keep the money offshore you can report higher earnings and get a higher stock price, but with a 10 % or so cost of capital leaving the money stranded overseas means that if it stays more than 2 - 3 years then you're destroying value.

For example, if you write an uncovered call, you face unlimited potential loss, since there is no cap on how high a stock price can rise.

Back in 2013, the price - to - sales ratio was only 1.3 x. Just five years later, investors are now paying about 75 % higher stock prices for each dollar of annual sales.

Eventually, there has to be a fundamental reason for the high stock price.

While that might seem obvious, it's not, because these high - quality companies should be expected to have higher stock prices.

These already high stock prices leave little room for them to rise further without some impetus from the economy or better profits.

Many times in sectors, when consolidation takes place, it will happen with all of the candidates for acquisitions eventually becoming takeover targets, and rewarding shareholders with higher stock prices.

Even if activists or financial acquirers do not make a run at the company, SureWest would be in a far better negotiating position with a potential strategic acquirer, such as Comcast, with a higher stock price.

Businesses will enjoy the ability to finance operations, acquisitions and expansions at a cheaper rate, thereby increasing their future earnings potential, which, in turn, leads to higher stock prices.