Sentences with phrase «measure earnings power»

Not exact matches

As Nicholas Colas of ConvergEx wrote in a Friday note, «Against measures of long - term earnings power, the S&P 500 is clearly expensive at 25 (times) trailing 10 - year earnings.

Earning power will not necessarily be evidenced by earnings as reported for accounting purposes, but might also be measured by increases in unrealized, and therefore unreported, appreciation (e.g., St. Joe Paper), by increased cash flows (e.g., Forest City Enterprises), or by a company becoming an attractive sales, merger or acquisition candidate (e.g., Constellation Bancorp).

Focus on the quantitative measures of value of existing assets and current earnings power

It completely subsumes the earnings based measure, and has significantly more power than the measure based on free cash flows.

If the DNA meter says you're a has - been, then all the traditional measures of growth and earnings power lose their potency.