While the company's payout ratios have been climbing in the past few years, a level near 50 % or less in both earnings and free cash flow (where the ratios have stabilized) gives the company plenty of safety buffer should unexpected cost overruns result in
a poor earnings year.
Not exact matches
There are only a handful of times over the past 20
years that the Standard &
Poor's 500 and the S&P / TSX composite index have had price - to -
earnings ratios this low.
Wall Street analysts expect
earnings for the companies in the S. & P. 500 to increase 25 percent this
year, according to data compiled by Standard &
Poor's, an unusually large jump that was reflected in the stock market valuations.
The Australian sharemarket has retreated from six -
year highs, as a plunge in the iron ore price weighed on miners and several
poorer - than - expected
earnings results convinced investors to take a breather.
We have: • normalized the domestic yield curve • issued the country's maiden 15 -
year bond in April 2017 • improved external balances, driven by higher export
earnings and lower imports • improved gross international reserves to US$ 7.2 billion, equivalent to 4.1 months of imports cover • improved primarybalanceto0.3 percent surplus in September 2017 against a deficit of 1.6 percent in September 2016 • received positive sovereign rating reviews from international ratings Agencies: Fitch, B / stable; Standard &
Poor, B - / positive • successfully completed the 4th IMF / ECF program review, and • achieved positive developments in the oil & gas sector — favorable ITLOS ruling, and Sankofa producing 1st oil three months ahead of schedule.
He sought to soften the blow by restoring the state pension link to
earnings from next
year, raising income tax allowances for basic rate payers and a # 2bn boost for
poor families.
Nonetheless, in spite of weak legs and unusually
poor reviews, The Village's ample
earnings were good news for Disney, and it helped kick off a strong second half of the
year for the studio that would mostly reverse a dismal performance in the first six months.
For
poor children, a twenty percent increase in per - pupil spending each
year for all 12
years of public school is associated with nearly a full additional
year of completed education, 25 percent higher
earnings, and a 20 percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of poverty in adulthood.
Only about 46 percent of children aged three through six in families below the federal poverty line are enrolled in center - based early childhood programming, compared to 72 percent of children in families above the federal poverty line.1
Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemploym
Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not
poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemploym
poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four -
year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly
earnings and higher rates of unemployment.
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To put numbers to it, the Standard &
Poor's 500 - stock index's cyclically adjusted price - to -
earnings ratio («CAPE»), which compares a 10 -
year average of corporate
earnings to today's share prices, clocks in at 31.
Out of 9,194 stocks tracked by Standard &
Poor's Compustat research service, 3,518 are now trading at less than eight times their
earnings over the past
year — or at levels less than half the long - term average valuation of the stock market as a whole.
Fairfax's TTM
earnings is 29.08, partially hurt by a
poor quarter at the beginning of this calendar
year where they posted a loss of $ 2.79 per share.
For instance, since the early 1980s, the yield on the benchmark 10 -
year Treasury note has fallen from roughly 16 % to 2 % and the Standard &
Poor's 500 - stock index has climbed from less than eight times
earnings to 25 times
earnings.
DIV STRK is consecutive
years of dividend increases; DIV YLD is yield using the most recently announced dividend; 5 YR YLD is average dividend yield over the past 5
years; REC DG is most recent
year - over-
year dividend growth; 5 YR DG is average annual dividend growth over the past 5
years; PRICE was at market close Friday, March 2; FAIR VAL is Morningstar's «Fair Value Estimate»; FWD P / E is price /
earnings ratio based on projected 2018
earnings; 5 YR P / E is average P / E ratio over the past 5
years; MOAT is Morningstar's rating of competitive economic advantage; SFT is Value Line's «Safety» score; CRD is Standard &
Poor's credit rating; MKT CAP is market cap in billions of dollars.
It is more accurate to argue that following
poor 10 -
year returns, provided that valuations are depressed based on normalized
earnings and the economy is likely to grow at double digits rates of nominal growth - investors can probably anticipate higher subsequent long - term returns.
After plunging in recent
years, reported
earnings will rise 65 percent this
year, according to Standard and
Poor's.
The consensus of 17 analysts reporting to Standard &
Poor's Capital IQ expect Rosetta Resources» five -
year average
earnings growth rate to exceed 25 % per annum.
The consensus of 10 analysts reporting to Standard &
Poor's Capital IQ expect United Therapeutics to grow
earnings over 24 % per annum for the next five
years.
The consensus of seven analysts reporting to Standard &
Poor's Capital IQ expect GeoSpace Technologies Corp to continue growing
earnings at 20 % per annum over the next five
years.
The consensus of five analysts reporting to Standard &
Poor's Capital IQ expect Bio Reference Labs to continue growing
earnings at over 17 % per annum over the next five
years.
Recognizing that dividends are a
poor measure of a company's cash flows, Shiller and Campbell used a ratio of real (net of inflation) market price relative to 10 -
year average of real
earnings — which they called the cyclically adjusted PE, or CAPE, ratio — to reach the same conclusion.
The consensus of five analysts reporting to Standard &
Poor's Capital IQ expect strong
earnings growth at over 22 % per annum for the next five
years.
The
poor value investor who got out of the stock market in the mid-90s as the
earnings yield hit hit lows unseen since the late 60s — almost 25
years prior — would have sat out much of the fantastic returns generated by the dot - com bubble.
The «E» peaked in February last
year (see Standard &
Poor's current S&P 500
Earnings, go to «Download Index Data,» and select «Index
Earnings»).
The performance of the forward
earnings estimate is uniformly
poor, earning a compound annual growth rate of just 8.63 percent on average and underperforming the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 by almost 1 percent per y
poor, earning a compound annual growth rate of just 8.63 percent on average and underperforming the Standard &
Poor's (S&P) 500 by almost 1 percent per y
Poor's (S&P) 500 by almost 1 percent per
year.
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Indeed, as to almost all of TAVF's investments since the Fund started investing four and a half
years ago, either the issuer's recent
earnings performance was
poor, or the near - term outlook was clouded at the time TAVF invested in the equities — hardly prescriptions for outperforming the market consistently.
If it were
poor corporate
earnings causing
poor stock returns, we would not see a bad return in one
year of a 30 -
year time - period always being matched with a good return in another
year of the same 30 -
year time - period, so that the 30 -
year returns all in the same general neighborhood.
Robert Shiller later popularized this method with his version of the cyclically adjusted price - to -
earnings (CAPE) ratio in the late 1990s and correctly issued a timely warning of
poor stock returns to follow in the coming
years.
As reported in Panel A of Table 1, the average annual underperformance of − 2.2 % a
year (for still - extant funds, this is through
year - end 2016), 17 net of all trading costs and fees, is heavily skewed downward by the
poor results of the single
earnings momentum fund.
Even if you just take a multiple of
earnings (as most people who die from air pollution are much
poorer than US citizens), society ought to be prepared to pay trillions a
year for cleaner energy just to avoid the deaths.