Sentences with phrase «metrics while the stock»

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While the stocks look expensive by some metrics, Robbins is focused on the companies» ability to grow through synergies created in their mergers.

In the United States last year, close to 20 percent of private - sector employees owned stock, and 7 percent held stock options, in the companies where they worked, while about one - third participated in some kind of cash profit - sharing and one - fourth in gain - sharing (when workers get additional compensation based on improvement on a metric other than profits, like sales or customer satisfaction).

While stock prices may be the ultimate barometer of the success or failure of a given investment choice, Buffett does not focus on this metric.

While declining credit metrics are worth keeping an eye on, Synchrony's stock has fallen so much that shares now trade for less than nine times forward earnings.

As a result, in many of our strategies, we are once again finding opportunities in stocks like Ally Financial, Cummins, and Fiat Chrysler that are cheap on traditional «value» metrics while at the same time continuing to hold «growth» stocks that still do not trade at an appropriate premium.

While some of these newer metrics show dividend stocks and / or dividend growers performing slightly better than the broader market, it's certainly not the slam dunk for dividend stocks that was initially implied by the Ned Davis graph.

Readers, how do you currently implement valuation metrics while investing in the stock market?

While other approaches are more appropriate for industry - specific analysis, such as price - to - book for banks, the P / E is a widely - accepted metric in assessing the overall stock market's valuation.

Once you learn why book value is a meaningless metric for companies that buy back stock, you won't freak out when you see companies trading at 8x book value while buying back its own stock.

But using net margin as a metric for stock screening has been shown to not be useful, while using price / sales HAS predictive value.

It works in reverse too — some of the best short sellers see the market / investors completely hung up on a specific valuation metric / scenario for a particular stock or sector, while other valuation approaches suggest an entirely different reality.

By this metric alone, while stocks have given up much of their speculative froth so far this decade, they could unfortunately drop 80 - 90 % further if the 1980 low is to be reached before this bear market concludes.

While earnings have been the traditional metric to derive the value of a stock, Michael Mauboussin points out that cash flows reflect better economic reality than earnings in the article, «What You See and What You Get» dated July 23, 2007.

While short sellers aren't always right about the direction or more importantly, the timing of their bets, we can not rely solely on either of these metrics in isolation to determine the possible direction of a particular stock.

And while investor sentiment may be more negative for certain property types, we must also look at the second metric to get an idea of the magnitude of a move in the stock prices of those property types based on the liquidity available and the number of shares needed to be covered.