Sentences with phrase «normal earnings power»

They basically took Graham's «valuation floor» idea, and then set that floor by looking at the normal earnings power of a given asset base.

Because it owns extensive insurance operations that experience fluctuating profits, it is not as easy to determine Berkshire's normal earnings power as it would be, for say, Kraft's food packaging divisions which have pretty predictable demand for macaroni and cheese, Oscar Meyer hot dogs, and Maxwell House coffee, but still — $ 12 billion is a good estimate of what «normal» profits look like each year for Berkshire shareholders.

Not exact matches

«I'm basically doing time arbitrage - finding companies where economic, industry or company - specific disappointments prompt short - term investors to sell me their shares at compelling absolute valuations based on what I consider normal longer - term earnings power» Whitney George