Sentences with phrase «overall valuation of the stock»

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Whether or not the IPO market picks up speed, and when, will depend on the overall performance of the stock market, the performance of other companies that have recently gone public, and the willingness of those companies waiting in the wings to take significant haircuts on their valuations.

In any event, I'm pleased with the overall behavior of our stock holdings, and I expect that we'll have plenty of opportunity to increase our exposure to market fluctuations at more appropriate valuations.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

The odds strongly favor a decrease in overall stock valuations in the intermediate - term (of 5 to 20 years or approximately 10 years).

In that sense all analysis of stock market based on historical metrics do nt make much sense since composition of stocks is entirely different in different era and as more capital efficient business model evolve and their time to market cycle shrinks stocks likely to command higher valuations and suddenly lower valuations during short period of time like already happening for many technology companies and as influence of technology on overall cost structure of companies increases (for example: robotics replace many of employees cost etc) valuation matrix of most companies likely to get affected dynamically in short duration of time than in the past.

Are the current large market leaders enjoying higher stock prices simply because of their position as larger weights in the overall market funds (into which vast sums of money are pouring every month), rather than because they are good profitable companies with fair valuations?

In this part 2, I will present the final 10 of 20 attractively - valued dividend growth stocks that I felt were currently worthy of consideration based on attractive or fair valuation relative to the overall market.

An example is the Tech bubble of 1999 - 2000, when overall valuations were very high, but there existed many opportunities in «old - world» industries that didn't get caught up in the speculative craze that affected technology, telecommunications and media stocks.

To the extent that valuations predict the overall return of the stock market, they tell us everything about the first component and quite a bit about Safe Withdrawal Rates in general.

But with the levels of dividends, profit growth and valuation expected over the next five years it would suggest to me a 5 % to 7 % return from the overall stock market.

The Fund may emphasize a «value» style of investing that emphasizes undervalued companies with characteristics for improved valuations, which may never improve and may actually have lower returns than other styles of investing or the overall stock market.

This style of investing is subject to the risk that the valuations never improve or that the returns on «value» equity securities are less than returns on other styles of investing or the overall stock market.