The phrase
"investment merit" refers to the qualities or characteristics of an investment that make it seem attractive or worthwhile. It describes the reasons why someone might consider investing in a particular asset or opportunity.
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The only way to adequately gauge
investment merit here is to have a valid and historically reliable approach for estimating prospective future market returns.
Summary: For most investors, the FAANG decision has for years rested
on investment merit alone.
A positive shift in trend uniformity here would have nothing to do
with investment merit, but rather speculative merit.
«Any investment you make should stand up on its
own investment merits,» says Adrian Mastracci, portfolio manager of KCM Wealth Management in Vancouver, a fee - only advisory service.
For a more detailed evaluation of the companies mentioned here, and the
particular investment merits of the stocks, subscribers are encouraged to view our full - page reports in The Value Line Investment Survey.
In any event, the major indices continue to
lack investment merit, and we continue to require more evidence of speculative merit before removing even a portion of our hedges.
«When we examine market collapses across history, the common feature is that
both investment merit and speculative merit are absent,» Hussman wrote in a recent blog post.
Growth without profit (i.e. value) offers
no investment merit.
Remember that is not a rating on
the investment merit of the stock.
At present, the market lacks both
investment merit and speculative merit, so the Strategic Growth Fund is fully hedged.
What's more, it's important that you believe in
the investment merits of any potential addition to your portfolio, as opposed to its get - rich - quick potential.
It is very hard to evaluate one unconstrained bond fund against another because you can't even look at the portfolio on a static basis and judge it on
its investment merits.
They evaluate Yelp on
its investment merits.
Extreme valuations mean that stocks have
no investment merit.
When market risk has neither
investment merit nor speculative merit, we simply shut it down.
«During the latter stage of the bull market culminating in 1929, the public acquired a completely different attitude towards
the investment merits of common stocks... Why did the investing public turn its attention from dividends, from asset values, and from average earnings to transfer it almost exclusively to the earnings trend, i.e. to the changes in earnings expected in the future?
BMO Nesbitt Burns Investment Advisors posted an introduction to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies but warn that «as a team, we do not believe in
the investment merits of cryptocurrencies at this point in time».
We won't observe «
investment merit» until we observe significantly lower valuations, but market action by itself could encourage a somewhat more constructive stance.
Still, there is emphatically
no investment merit in long - term bonds, in the sense that by definition, a long - term investment in 10 - year Treasury securities will lock in a total return of less than 3.4 % over the coming decade.
This article discusses
the investment merits of Philip Morris International, including the company's current valuation and future growth prospects.
But here and now, we don't observe
any investment merit in equities, and with market internals deteriorating, any remaining speculative merit has also receded quickly.
Should our credit markets — already the most highly leveraged of all time — continue to suffer from deteriorating credit quality, our expectation is that FCN will continue to show
its investment merits.
This article is going to examine
the investment merits of Crimson Wine Group (CWGL), which was spun out of Leucadia National (LUK) earlier this year at around $ 7.30 per share.
Unlike most of our typical investment reports which focus on free cash flow utilization, net asset value investing, mean reversion of margins or special situations, this report will look at
the investment merits of a company that generates little free cash flow at the moment and is somewhat of a growth investment if company management is successful in achieving its objectives.
We also rate
the investment merit of the top six industrial sector ETFs.
We rate
the investment merit of the top - 5 utility sector ETFs.
We rate
the investment merit of the top - 6 materials sector ETFs.
We also rate
the investment merit of the top - 12 tech sector ETFs.
We also rate
the investment merit of the top - 9 energy sector ETFs.
We also rate
the investment merit of the top nine financial sector ETFs.
We decided to take another look at LYV to see if it has
any investment merits either long or short.
We rate
the investment merit of the top six consumer discretionary sector ETFs based on our coverage of 471 stocks in this sector.
We also rate
the investment merit of the top - 9 health care sector ETFs.
We also rate
the investment merit of the top five consumer staple sector ETFs.
We also rate
the investment merit of the top - 3 telecom sector ETFs.
In constructing the portfolios this way, The Fund aims to reduce market risk, which is the risk that equity markets as a whole may rise or fall, independent of
the investment merits of individual stocks.
While Glass Lewis may mention certain companies in its blog postings, Glass Lewis never comments on
the investment merits of the securities issued by the subject companies.
Today's «Trends and Tail Risks» outlines what we think are Potash Corp's
investment merits.