"Investor enthusiasm" refers to the excitement or strong interest that investors have in a particular investment or financial opportunity. It means that investors are feeling positive and optimistic about the potential returns or benefits of putting their money into that specific investment.
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Stocks have accelerated into 2018 with a burst
of investor enthusiasm, but how does the start of this year compare to past years?
A bull market stretching eight years — and nearly weekly new highs — seems to be weighing
on investor enthusiasm.
Equity investor enthusiasm enabled the industry to double share issuance over that 10 - year period to fund mine expansion and corporate acquisitions.
Given that so
much investor enthusiasm has focused on the new claims figures, it's interesting that the large and generally upward revisions in months of prior data seemed to go virtually unnoticed.
Public company valuations were at all - time highs in relation to earnings, driven in part
by investor enthusiasm and soaring margin debt.
If you follow the money, it's clear that
investor enthusiasm for index funds and other passive investments continues to grow.
It's surely a sign of
public investor enthusiasm for the cloud storage business, which had initially hoped to price its IPO between $ 16 and $ 18, then raised it from $ 18 to $ 20.
Down about 20 % from its all - time highs, Ulta stock has seen
dampened investor enthusiasm after an otherwise amazing 10 - year run as a public company.
The company had initially anticipated a share price in the range of $ 14 to $ 16, but
investor enthusiasm prompted the company to raise that range by $ 3 on Wednesday.
«As the price of major cryptocurrencies spiked,» noted the TSSB, «promoters of cryptocurrency investments ramped up their marketing to Texans... The potential to cash in on what could be a global revolution in web - based transactions has
put investor enthusiasm into overdrive.»
HONG KONG Ant Financial's rapid climb to become the world's biggest super unicorn valued by some investors at around $ 150 billion
showcases investor enthusiasm for the biggest Chinese tech companies and also how quickly valuations can shift.
The move seeks to capitalize on
robust investor enthusiasm for Chinese tech stocks which have pushed valuations to heady levels for many firms, as well as on rapid growth in demand for commercial - use drones.
This is an updated version of the chart from my prior quarterly Insights, highlighting
how investor enthusiasm surged in the post-election environment, driving up select U.S. stocks and the dollar in the process.
Amid investor enthusiasm for the cybersecurity industry, FireEye has recovered this year though at around $ 42 a share, the stock remains far below its March 2014 high of $ 97.35.
Higgins notes that back in 1996, then - Fed Chair Alan Greenspan gave his infamous warning that
perhaps investor enthusiasm for stocks had become «irrational exuberance.»
Changes in sentiment In 2014, various media outlets and Wall Street analysts began to question the meteoric rise that 3D printing stocks experienced in 2013, and this more critical portrayal may have
tempered investor enthusiasm toward the sector.
My reasoning was 3x up potential to 1x down, that is, if the pricing power for internet transport were to shift slightly away from the «last milers», in fact or even just in expectation, then LVLT might make a decent return on its assets and the leverage in this operating scenario would produce generous cash flows that could generate considerable
investor enthusiasm which would, in turn, drive the share price to at least 3x its current level.
Although it's too early to call a solid bottom to the stock market, real estate experts and analysts generally agree that in the near term REIT shares are going to be fighting headwinds due to deteriorating real estate fundamentals and
waning investor enthusiasm.
It's obviously an indication of
public investor enthusiasm for the cloud storage business, which had originally hoped to cost its IPO between $ 16 and $ 18, then raised it from $ 18 to $ 20.
However,
recent investor enthusiasm for Paddy Power has been more surprising, as the company's endured a long & unexpected run of bad luck since 2013 — while FY - 2013 net revenue grew 12 %, diluted EPS growth was only 2 %.
Fortress Investment Group became the first hedge fund and private equity firm to go public in 2007, riding
on investor enthusiasm for alternative investments during the credit market boom.
It's surely a sign of public
investor enthusiasm for the cloud storage business, which had initially hoped to price its IPO between $ 16 and $ 18, then raised it from $ 18 to $ 20.
The Swedish company, which began trading in an unorthodox direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange in April, was the victim of
investor enthusiasm, after a flood of bullish stock recommendations were published in the days ahead of the results.
Still, Ackman takes CP's rising share price as a sign of
investor enthusiasm.
Although Snap (snap) originally priced its IPO at $ 17 per share,
investor enthusiasm for the company behind popular messaging app Snapchat lifted those shares 52 % to $ 25.88 in mid-day trading.
«You could look at the big run - up we've seen in bitcoin, and just highlight that as another example of overall consumer and
investor enthusiasm,» he said Wednesday on CNBC's «Trading Nation.»
However, the unexpected political challenges could be starting to exact a toll on
investor enthusiasm, which might explain why equities began to tread water by late March.
Investor enthusiasm for the microblogging company defied traditional valuation analyses.
Investor enthusiasm for the industry, though, is hardly just a recent development.
Europe enters 2018 without the policy catalyst of the U.S., the momentum of emerging markets or
the investor enthusiasm of Japan.
«The market is going through a self - writing process by working off the excesses of
investor enthusiasm.
If you recall, many of the commodity ETFs launched with great fanfare and
investor enthusiasm put in disappointing performance when traders systematically exploited the specific rollover dates of the contracts by front running the ETFs.