Sentences with phrase «pests of a bad company»

Plantations of good morals are easily captivated, colonized and corrupted by the pests of a bad company.

Not exact matches

The downside of a P / E is that it is based on historic earnings, and that those earnings could be low for a specific and not - to - be-repeated event (for example, a bank taking bad debt provision, or san oil company paying compensation for environmental issues).

Intuitively, stocks with low P / E ratios have high earnings yields, which may be indicative of a bargain (especially if the stock has been battered down by bad news, but nothing has changed fundamentally for the company or the industry).

Call me foolish, but I don't actually have a base bear case here — at worst, over the next 5 years (noting the company's stable record over the last five), I'm highly confident Record can declare & maintain total dividends (inc. special dividends) of at least 2.25 - 2.50 p pa.

The bad news is they have been in the bottom 37 % for the last 5 years, I would not expect the fund to be in the top 9 % in the next 15 years as the average size company is 3 times that of the average small - cap value fund and their price - to - book ratio is higher than the average small - cap average P / B.

As such diversification of seed type is restricted and reduced, this variety in a crop is what nature provides to prevent one pest or disease wiping out part of our food supply, but worse than that a GM company is now in control of part of the food chain.