Sentences with phrase «owned less stocks»

As a hard - and - fast rule, you should own less stocks as you get older.

When we enter a period when owning stocks makes less sense, then your manager should be free to... well, own less stock.

Not exact matches

Admittedly, after years of acquisitions, Berkshire's bottom line has more to do with the performance of the increasingly large companies it owns — including, for instance, railroad giant BNSF and Heinz — and less to do with the returns of its stock market portfolio.

We may be now shifting to an environment where corporations buy less of their own stocks, but investors actually buy more stock.

Third Point, which settled a bitter proxy battle with Yahoo last year after months of criticism of the company, will still own about 20 million shares, less than 2 percent of the Internet media company's common stock.

I can easily construct my own portfolio of specific stocks and ETFs for $ 0 fees or probably less than $ 100 a year on a ~ $ 400,000 portfolio.

The Census Bureau data also indicate that among less affluent households, fewer directly owned stocks and mutual fund shares in 2011 (13 %) than in 2009 (16 %), meaning a smaller share enjoyed the fruits of the stock market rally.

For example, less - affluent households own little stock and are less likely to own their own homes.

Access to the Proxy: Companies should provide access to management proxy materials for a long - term investor or group of long - term investors owning in aggregate at least three percent of a company's voting stock, to nominate less than a majority of the directors.

If the stocks you own become less valuable, your net worth goes down.

Of course, given that Shiller's raw CAPE is also much less reliable than our margin - adjusted variant, a decline in the Shiller CAPE, driven by a statistical artifact of its own construction, will not make stocks any less hypervalued.

When you know what you own, you're far less likely to be influenced by the actions of others and take your cues from the stock price.

«We've earned our money over time by significant outperformance in down markets, which is primarily a function of owning low - expectation stocks that are less susceptible to market corrections» Tom Shrager

Bill Adams, PNC senior international economist, and Bill Stone, chief investment strategist for PNC Asset Management, explain how China's economy affects the United States and why our own stock market ups and downs are influenced less by China than many people think.

Let earning the option premium be a fallback if you don't get a chance to own the stock for less.

Instead, they owned highly selective portfolios, mostly 34 stocks or less, vs. the 160 in the average equity fund.

An equally - weighted index will still own too much of overpriced stocks and too little of bargain - priced stocks, but in other cases, it will own more of bargain stocks and less of overpriced stocks.

As a company's stock falls, its market capitalization falls and a market cap - weighted index will automatically own less of that company.

Also, should our insight prove premature and the stock or investment that we own works against us, the position becomes smaller and thus less worrisome among our portfolio holdings.

In that instance, the earliest warnings were from weakness in utilities and corporate bonds, but the percentage of stocks above their own 200 - day averages didn't fall below 60 % until the market itself was already down nearly 10 % from its high; less than two weeks before the crash.

Each request must be for at least 5 million shares and the deal terminates when he owns less than 5 percent of the company's stock.

Citing the 2010 General Social Survey evidencing that companies with employee stock ownership were four times less likely to lay off employees during the Great Recession than conventionally owned companies, ESOP Association President, J. Michael Keeling, urged the Congress to consider job sustainability when reforming the Federal tax code.

As bond yields rise, investors are less incentivized to own a dividend paying stock versus a safer bond.

Most dividend growth investors like to own stocks with low volatility, because then you are less likely to become emotional about them when their price drops.

To avoid the regret of missing out, the investor will be less risk averse and will likely buy any stocks that his friend recommends in the future without conducting any background research of his own.

Sprint could be a millionaire - maker stock, but that's a lot less likely than it becoming a slight gain on a sale or an unpredictable performer as it chugs along on its own trying to compete with T - Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon.

The government expects to lose $ 16 billion of its investment, less if the price of the GM stock it still owns increases.

I actually made it with the ham bone from our Christmas dinner and made my own ham stock for the base (in place of the beef broth) and used one less can of black beans»cause that's what I had on hand.

For all the talk of behemoth Chinese state - owned entities buying up Australian mining and farming assets, the Chinese share of the stock was less than 1 %.

Stock Up on Playthings If your pup has his own stuff, he's less likely to chew on any cute baby toys you received as gifts.

Gove relied on his script far less when he finally got on to his own specialist subject, the Department for Education, providing far more valuable input than what almost felt like a Commons speech up to that point, trotting out stock lines to attacks that were on this occasion invisible.

Any newcomer will have to come to terms not only with the most dismal NCI budget scenario in 3 decades but also with stringent new rules on owning pharmaceutical stock; and because this is a presidential appointment, the director might have less than 2 years to serve.

Sure, individuals display their own coded sorts of bigotry, specifically, Chuck (Patrick John Flueger), the troublemaking 20something stock car driver, who is more or less redneckery incarnate.

Amazon has stopped taking pre-orders for books published by Hachette, and are stocking less inventory of print books to place more of a burden on Hachette to hold their own inventory and fill orders in a timely manner.

A stock ETF could contain hundreds — sometimes thousands — of stocks, making an ETF generally less risky than owning just a handful of individual stocks.

This makes call options of dividend paying stocks less attractive to own than the stocks itself, thereby depressing its extrinsic value.

Still, it seemed very cheap, and one of my favorite value investors, Michael Price, owned a little less than 10 % of the common stock.

In addition, these same valuation metrics must currently be less than the 10 year median of the stock's own history.

Most dividend growth investors like to own stocks with low price volatility, because then you are less likely to become emotional about the stock.

Most dividend growth investors like to own stocks with low volatility, because then you are less likely to become emotional about them when the market drops.

Writing covered calls is a great way to boost your yield on stocks you already own, and involves a lot less risk than most investors think.

As a result, the fund owns more of the largest stocks and less of the smaller ones.

This covered call is better than owning the stock outright for all stock values of 53 or less.

I did my own research on the ten lowest P / E stocks each year among all stocks with a market cap of $ 500 million or more, and debt less than equity.

If you have good knowledge about stocks investing, you can more or less act as your own stock broker.

Earlier this year, when stocks were on the mend and investors were less anxious, the correlation between the S&P 500 and its stocks fell below 50 %, suggesting investors were looking for individual stocks to own rather than just buying large indexes.

One thing about weighting your stocks to your own country: you have less volatility due to changes in the exchange rate between your unit of money and that of other countries.

As bond yields rise, investors are less incentivized to own a dividend paying stock versus a safer bond.

However, if a stock declines and you have a covered call you will lose less than if you just owned the stock outright (covered call risks are lower than buy and hold risks).

For his own trading, Henning prefers stocks with investment values over 100, although he does not exclude stocks with investment values of less than 100 from his watchlist.