BP Chief Executive Bob Dudley said Monday that he was «very comfortable» with oil
prices at their current levels.
David Dietze, chief investment strategist at Point View Wealth Management, nonetheless said «we remain cautious» with stock
prices at current levels.
«We have also seen enough buyers in the better - supplied condo apartment market to provide support for selling
prices at current levels,» Mercer said in remarks accompanying the board's report.
The statement further noted that «pump
prices at current levels are expected to remain largely unchanged in the first pricing window of the month of December.»
Not exact matches
The updated forecast assumes
current aluminum
prices will hold
at these elevated
levels, Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Giacobbe said on a post-earnings call with analysts.
But Waghorn says Hess's wide range of oil reserves, including fields in Guyana, will help diversify its revenue sources in case
prices stall
at current levels.
Citi's comments come as oil
prices have recovered from a plunge in 2014 with the bank seeing the first stop for the rally
at about US$ 65 a barrel, around 25 % more than
current price levels.
Still, Fitbit has something of a first - mover advantage that's likely to keep its share
price floating
at its
current level of around $ 32, which is more than 40 percent higher than its trading start
price.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and
price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering
prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the
levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or
at all, for new and
current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock
price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
It's difficult to promise that
prices will remain
at their
current levels, even though the companies say consumers should expect the deal to lower
prices.
Therefore,
at current levels the maximum
price return for UST 10 yr is 18 % calculated as follows: the yield declines from 2.91 % to 0 % and the
price rises by 2.91 x 9 yr duration or 26.19 %.
Still, even
at the
current depressed
price levels, production, for the most part, in those countries is still profitable.
At price levels below $ 80 a barrel, you can expect to see the
current frantic pace of drilling in the region start to gear down.
Analyst Steve Koenig
at Wedbush Securities raised his
price target to $ 56, which is 11.3 % above
current levels, from $ 44, which was 5 % below Wednesday's close of $ 46.33.
At that
price, not only are plans to double output from the oil sands no longer commercially viable, but
current production
levels also come into question.
At the same time, the
current level of the exchange rate represents a big shift in relative
prices, which should provide substantial ongoing assistance for the export sector (and the import - competing sector).
With the stock
at that
price, Bezos's fortune would be about $ 86 billion, just under Gates's
current level.
In this February 22 post on our trading blog, which was published immediately following two days of heavy selling on February 20 and 21, we said, «If and when the S&P attempts to bounce from its
current level, the subsequent
price and volume action that immediately follows any recovery attempt will be extremely important
at -LSB-...]
We don't expect the coin to re-test its lows, as several strong support
levels are below the
current price level,
at $ 51, $ 44, and $ 38.
How long do you think the stock
price would stay
at its
current level?»
In that respect it is entering a vacuum, since
current price levels in Israeli drugstores allow it to offer many products
at very substantial discounts by comparison with them.
If we examine median
price / earnings ratios of different groups in the S&P 500
at the 2000 market peak and
at current levels, we observe the following pattern:
While there have been some sizable stock market declines in recent days, Figure 3 [below] shows that
current stock
prices remain
at roughly the
levels they achieved in December 2017.
Put simply, even taking account of
current interest rate
levels, and even assuming that stocks should be
priced to deliver commensurately lower long - term returns, we currently estimate that the S&P 500 is about 2.8 times the
level at which equities would provide an appropriate risk premium relative to bonds.
Because of the
current pullback to the 10 - week MA, we expect the
price action to hold
at or around this
level over the next week or two before the uptrend resumes.
One is that stock
prices are indeed three times the
level at which they are likely to end the
current market cycle.
Also troubling is the way the CFTC and SEC report, in placing responsibility for the crash on Waddell & Reed, contradicted its own definition of liquidity: «buy - side and sell - side market depth, which is comprised of resting orders that market participants place to express their willingness to buy or sell
at prices equal to, or outside of (either below or above),
current market
levels.»
S&P 500 financials stand
at a 15.5 x trailing ratio; thus, brokerage shares are not a bargain
at current price levels.
At its
current price point, Ethereum faces resistance between $ 395 to $ 400
levels.
At current price levels, Ripple has a market cap of nearly $ 53 billion, according to data provider CoinMarketCap.com.
At its
current valuation of ~ $ 500 / share, AZO stands out with a
price to economic book value ratio of only 1, which implies that the company will never grow NOPAT from its
current level.
Currently, BXMT's dividend produces an approximate 8.1 % pretax yield in the
current share
price and
at that
level, its tax deduction will provide most individual shareholders in the top bracket in the pretax equivalent of another 90 bps of yield.
While the
current price / peak - earnings multiple is already
at an elevated
level above 18, what I'll call the «P / E equivalent» multiples on other fundamentals are: 21 on the basis of book values, nearly 23 on the basis of enterprise value / EBITDA (which factors in the increasing share of debt on corporate balance sheets), over 25 on the basis of revenues, and 29 on the basis of dividends (largely because dividend payout ratios remain relatively low even on the basis of normalized earnings).
We are not so optimistic as to predict that our financial holdings will return to their pre-2008 profitability
levels, but
at current share
prices we believe that the sector is still attractive.
Some coking coal contracts have reportedly been settled
at prices more than double
current contract
price levels.
My model tells me that committing 75 % of my IRA to the ladder will yield the income necessary to meet all our
current needs except for travel,
at current price levels.
At current levels, Japanese equities are both absolutely and relatively cheap; the equity risk premium is about 7.8 % and the forward
price / earnings ratio is less than 13.
«However, inventory will continue to be the story in the new year, as any movement within the market will be exaggerated
at their
current, extremely low
levels, meaning that if sentiment remains unchanged, conditions could worsen and
prices may fall even further.»
Furthermore, if oil
prices dropped further from their
current level to $ 80 a barrel, RenCap's economists said growth could turn negative,
at -1.7 percent in 2015.
Pierre Lassonde, chairman of Franco - Nevada, argues that gold is
priced fairly
at current levels, but it won't truly enter a bull market again until
prices climb much higher and, in hindsight, make now the time to buy gold before
prices get another boost; and
As we have argued before, structural factors may mean
prices take longer to respond to the
current higher
levels of activity than would normally be expected
at this point in the economic cycle.
With oil
prices plummeting 4 percent
at 12:33 pm EDT on Thursday, with WTI breaking below $ 50, it looks like a nine - month extension
at current production
levels is not enough to convince the market.
Structural factors may mean
prices take longer to respond to the
current higher
levels of activity than would normally be expected
at this point in the economic cycle.
Buy
Levels: If you want to get in on this trade, buy half of the intended quantity of stocks
at the
current price of $ 63.78.
At current price levels we are just talking about lunacy here, not a means by which to get your money out of the country.
That could rise quickly, with the
current on - fire stock market, rising oil
prices, and unemployment
at its lowest
level since 2007.
On the plus side, XLE is clearly trending higher
at the moment and there is still another 6.4 % and 9.4 % of upside potential between the
current price and the resistance
levels drawn in Figure 2.
This means that blindly selling short $ QQQ (or buying an inversely correlated «short ETF»)
at the
current price level of $ QQQ is risky and not advisable.
At its current level of profitability, Mattel is not worth buying at any pric
At its
current level of profitability, Mattel is not worth buying
at any pric
at any
price.
It just goes to show that even if the oil
price is in the doldrums, there are oil related companies that are profitable
at current levels that keep sending you a chunk of the profits.