Platinum Elite status gets you 50 %
more point earnings only on points earned by being a IHG Rewards Club member - not to points earned by using the IHG ® Rewards Club Premier Credit Card.
Not exact matches
And a Labor Department study
points out an
earnings anomaly: while self - employed men earn as much as or
more than similar workers paid a wage or a salary, self - employed women earn substantially less than their wage and salary counterparts.
Dean
points out that the grocery sector is about 50 %
more expensive on a price - to -
earnings basis here than it is in America, and
earnings are growing about 2 % slower.
«We've already seen a very significant amount of the euro's appreciation take effect on
earnings so at this
point in time what matters most is just how much
more hawkish people become on the ECB,» he added.
But while large - cap
earnings have been dented by the dollar's strength, Bloomberg data show that the large - cap S&P 500 Index was outperforming the small - cap Russell 2000 by
more than 300 basis
points (bps) through late November.
Then, redeem your
earnings through Chase Ultimate Rewards ® to cover any travel costs you might have, and receive 25 %
more value on your
point total.
More broadly, he says that while corporate credit may benefit from aspects of tax reform (i.e., better
earnings growth from the corporate tax cuts, modestly lower investment grade supply as repatriation becomes reality), he does not see tax cuts at this
point in the cycle as a bullish driver of credit spreads.
These positive
earnings drivers were
more than offset by the combined impact of several factors, including increased energy - related provisions for credit losses, a 17 basis
point decline in net interest margin, moderate growth of non-interest expenses, the addition of acquisition - related contingent consideration fair value changes reflecting performance within CWB Maxium Financial (CWB Maxium), higher preferred share dividends, and the 20 % increase to CWB's income tax rate in Alberta.
Even if we were to completely zero out two solid years of
earnings for the S&P 500, the fact is that
more than 90 % of the value of U.S. stocks would reside in the cash flows beyond that
point.
As
more companies reported «beat and lower»
earnings, market expectations continued to fall to the
point where third quarter index
earnings growth is now expected to be half of what was forecast in June.
I make it a
point to pay no
more than 50 - times
earnings, no matter how high profits are expected to grow.
No less a value conscious investor than Warren Buffett commented on this shift at the most recent Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, where he
pointed to the fact that the largest companies in the S&P 500; Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google generate far
more cash per dollar of
earnings than companies of the past.
The analysts
pointed out that «past transactions in the Australian dairy segment have been executed at 8 to 12 times EBITDA [
earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation], though in the last decade the range is
more like 10.5 to 13.0 times on comparable consumer - facing businesses.»
Vidal makes the
point that Nancy Lopez's career
earnings are all the
more impressive when one considers that LPGA Tour players make roughly half what their male counterparts do.
In the U.S. population of children aged 0 - 6, replacing all rice and rice products with alternate foods containing no arsenic would result in additional annual
earnings of approximately $ 12 to $ 18 billion by avoiding losses of
more than 9 million IQ
points per year;
The IFS
pointed out
earnings usually increased above inflation, making their decrease relative to inflation since 2007 all the
more striking.
The next time someone questions the taste of American moviegoers, I encourage you to
point out that
more than three - quarters of the global
earnings of Transformers: Age of Extinction
A 20 % «increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school leads to 0.9
more completed years of education, 25 percent higher
earnings, and a 20 percentage -
point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.»
Microsoft suggested during its fiscal third - quarter
earnings report that smaller form factors would be seen with future Windows devices, as well as devices offered at «
more attractive price
points.»
Point being, erotica and romance are such highly competitive categories that, to appear on an Author
Earnings report, any individual title has to be selling far and away
more copies than a title in a less competitive category.
Here are some
more of the data
points being generated by the report that Howey and his associate are making at Author
Earnings.
You'll need to keep this in mind if, say, one card gives you 3
points for every dollar you spend on airline tickets; those
points will add up quickly, especially if you're smart about how you redeem your reward
earnings (
more on that later).
Another important
point is that dividend income is
more stable, at least for the mature companies with stable
earnings of your scenario, and investors like stability.
The value and catalyst for both stocks at this
point is
more tied up in legislative action than in quarterly
earnings reports.
(Investors can also take a
more relaxed approach because the three
earnings - based portfolios still outperformed the index by
more than four percentage
points per year when they were rebalanced annually instead of monthly.)
What's
more, you can use this offer up to three times, bringing your total
earnings to a $ 600 statement credit or 60,000
points.
We are now monitoring
more than 500 dividend growth stocks, and in addition to tracking annual dividend amount and
earnings - per - share, we are gathering the following additional data
points:
But not - so - easy
point to get is that businesses with enduring moats are
more attractive as investments than those which don't have enduring moats even at relatively higher prices in relation to assets, recent
earnings and cash flows.
If corporate profits are the same percent of GNP as fifty years ago, but the composition of those
earnings is now
more heavily weighted toward foreign, your
point is entirely moot.
The
point I am highlighting here is that price volatility was significantly
more dynamic than changes in the company's fundamentals (
earnings).
Analyzing these data
points together —
earnings and job type — could reveal
more about the value of higher education.
Apart from the operation of the
earnings test, discussed next, there isn't any
point where you'll see a sudden dramatic change by waiting one
more month.
A good starting
point is looking at the
earnings stability over the previous 10 years or
more.
This also
more than makes up for the annual fee of the card without accounting for
point earnings at all.
In somewhat similar vein, you can obviously equate
earnings yield to RoME, but that would perhaps miss the
point — with an analysis, how you get there is often just as important as the end - result... If you re-read that section of my post, the important
point is to force myself (or readers) to stop focusing on book value, or intrinsic value, or even the potential upside — and to re-focus
more specifically on what kind of return may be on offer, based on the current market cap & ignoring any revaluation potential.
I'm just making the
point that the
more predictive price ratios (Shiller PE, Tobin's q etc), which are well above their long - run averages, all disagree with the PEs based on forward
earnings estimates from overoptimistic analysts» forecasts.
The only one that seems to
point to undervaluation is the forward operating
earnings estimate, which is consistently overoptimistic, and
more so at market peaks, and so I'm inclined to discount it.
At the outset, this was restricted to personal cards that participated in the Ultimate Rewards program, including cash - back cards that allow you to convert your
earnings to Ultimate Rewards
points (see this post for
more information).
But with the board now conceding cash generation is
more important than
earnings growth / guidance, this gap should close, so a 1.0 P / S multiple (based on an average 10.8 % margin of $ 425 million) seems fair at this
point.
On the
earnings front, you want to ensure you're getting 2X - 5X or
more for most spend in a worthwhile program, and not just 1
point per $ 1.
Hussman's
point is that the Fed model doesn't work because netting out the risk - free rate destroys the information in the other portion of the model e.g. the raw
earnings yield, unadjusted for 10 - year Treasury yields,
more closely predicts the actual returns of the market.
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According to the article, the sale of these miles and
points can account for
more than half of their total
earnings, as was the case for American Airlines.
If you are pairing with another Ultimate Rewards card and redeeming for
more than a penny a
point though, your 1.5
points per dollar in
earnings can be worth a lot
more than 2 % when you redeem.
Hilton HHonors introduced Double Dip ®
Earnings Style Options to give members
more flexibility in terms of how they want to earn
points and / or miles for their stays at Hilton Family hotels.
Best Western Rewards ® for AARP MembersSM offers a rate discount of 10 percent or
more on room rates at Best Western hotels, plus an automatic upgrade to Best Western Rewards ® Gold Elite status, which allows
earnings of 10 percent bonus
points on each qualified stay.
Once 100,000
points have been earned in a year, then there will be no
more earnings available on the account until the next year.
For instance, for someone whose primary loyalty lies with Delta or American, Singapore Krisflyer could be a good choice as a secondary program: you can earn on United, JetBlue, Virgin America (and soon, it seems, Alaska), so you are
more likely to accrue enough miles for an award, and you can also transfer all sorts of credit card
points to the program to supplement your
earnings.
The sign - up bonus sets the Freedom apart from the Discover it but the doubling of all
points earned in the first year is a tremendous perk and can
more than make up for the lost
earnings of the sign - up bonus as will be shown below.
As a result, our
earnings structure looks like this: Travel & Dining: 3X
Points Chase Sapphire Reserve (5.4 % Value) Gas: 3X
Points Amex EDP (5.4 % Value) Groceries: 4.5 X
Points Amex EDP (8.1 % Value) Everything Else: 2X
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