Sentences with phrase «profits on stock prices»

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Berkshire Hathaway «s (brk - b) stock price touched $ 300,000 for the first time on Monday, reflecting investors» confidence in Warren Buffett «s conglomerate despite four straight quarters of lower operating profit.

Economic cycles do affect profits and stock prices — when times get tough people find ways to save on their bills — but something extraordinary has to happen before people give up their Internet and mobile phones altogether.

GM was in the same boat as Ford: booming sales of high - margin pickups and SUVs, consistent profits, but no movement on the stock price.

Short - selling is the practice of borrowing stock and selling it at the current market price but paying for it later, on the expectation that the price will fall; it's a way of profiting from a stock's decline.

Instead of buying a specific asset class like a company's stock or a currency, futures and options contracts allow traders to profit from their bets on future prices and to hedge losses on what they already own.

The market's price - to - earnings ratio (based on the latest 12 months reported results) raced higher in late 2017 and through January on growth - stock leadership and enthusiasm over tax - cut - juiced profit windfalls for companies.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invstock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invStock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invStock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

That made it the best year on Wall Street since 1995, and it would take more than some short - term declines in stock prices as investors convert theoretical profits to the folding - money kind or even the inevitable downward market correction (the bursting of the proverbial bubble) to take the bloom of this particular rose.

Find companies that consistently generate profit, earn a quality return on invested capital, and have a stock price where expectations for future cash flows are low.

It never hurts to lock in profits on partial share size when a breakout stock or ETF has broken below its 10 - day moving average because such price action frequently leads to a deeper correction.

The quick profit in new issues depends on getting the stock at the offering price and selling it on the speculative upsurge which may accompany the offering.

Perhaps that's extreme, but one sign the whole thing did have an impact on agency profits and revenues, at least when it comes to the stock prices of the four biggest holding companies.

Under the Bonus Plan, our compensation committee, in its sole discretion, determines the performance goals applicable to awards, which goals may include, without limitation: attainment of research and development milestones, sales bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash position, earnings (which may include any calculation of earnings, including but not limited to earnings before interest and taxes, earnings before taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and net earnings), earnings per share, net income, net profit, net sales, operating cash flow, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, overhead or other expense reduction, product defect measures, product release timelines, productivity, profit, return on assets, return on capital, return on equity, return on investment, return on sales, revenue, revenue growth, sales results, sales growth, stock price, time to market, total stockholder return, working capital, and individual objectives such as MBOs, peer reviews, or other subjective or objective criteria.

Rather, our concern is that investors are pricing stocks on the assumption that current record profits can be used as a «sufficient statistic» for cash flows that will emerge decades and decades from today.

The prices of the shares on a stock market fluctuate according to supply and demand, investor confidence, world events and information about company profits, among other factors.

This report will also analyze the impact of smaller cabin seat sizes on the Company's profit margin and stock price.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Energy companies led U.S. stocks higher Tuesday as investors hoped higher oil prices and bigger profits are on the way.

The most reliable measures of individual stock valuation we've found are based on formal discounted cash flow considerations, but among publicly - available measures we've evaluated, price / revenue ratios are better correlated with actual subsequent returns than price / earnings ratios (though normalized profit margins and other factors are obviously necessary to make cross-sectional comparisons).

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its notable return on equity, attractive valuation levels, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and increase in stock price during the past year.

On the contrary, the safe - haven asset has seen a massive drop in investment interest as investors have flocked to profit from rising stock prices.

On the other hand, stock prices are — to a certain extent — a function of earnings growth, and smaller companies are often able to increase their profits at a faster speed than larger businesses.

You can make short term profits off of the small dips that a stock will have, such as when Apple dropped down under $ 108 briefly on Friday, but if the true price is higher, then the move upward above $ 110 makes sense.

It's fine to argue that perhaps investors are momentum chasers, and with profit margins now about 70 % above historical norms (making stocks seem both «safe» and misleadingly cheap), with stock prices up, and with low returns on cash, investors not holding stocks will be the greater fools that allow investors who do hold stocks to get out.

The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, increase in stock price during the past year and expanding profit margins.

If the market has bid up the price of a stock to insane heights or if you find that the company has lied on financial documents, you have the right to profit from your opinion.

If GOOGL's NOPAT margin expands to 23 % (based on Cowen's estimate of tax reform's impact) and the company can grow after - tax profit by 14 % compounded annually for the next decade, the stock is worth $ 1,520 / share today, a 41 % upside from the current price.

If we are in a bear market and the investor is not opposed to short selling, we can look for stocks that will likely perform the worst, therefore making a nice profit on the short positions as prices fall.

The company won't report a profit, but the financial manager hopes to increase its market price to re-sell it on the stock exchange.

In turn, declining revenue and lower prices mean downward pressure on profit margins, earnings growth and stock prices.

Multi-billion dollar stock buybacks are great for minting billionaire CEOs on Wall Street whose bonuses and stock options are tied to profits and share price performance.

For instance, if at the expiration of the put contract the stock reaches your $ 70 price target, you might then choose to sell the stock for a pretax profit of $ 1,700 ($ 2,000 profit on the underlying stock less the $ 300 cost of the option) and the option would expire worthless.

If they call something a trend and then use that prediction to sell those flavors up and down the food chain, it's like Goldman Sachs putting a buy rating on a stock they're promoting and then profiting when the stock's price inevitably goes up in reaction to that rating.

It is clear for all to see that The Arsenal FC is just a business that is stock holder driven (unfortunately there is no real thought for the FAN other than to keep paying the ticket prices and stop complaining) and all dealings are based on that view, to increase the profits for the share holders or to maintain the dividends paid to them.

CNNMoney: AIG stock sale raises $ 8.7 billion Shares of American International Group's long - awaited stock sale priced at $ 29 apiece late Tuesday to raise $ 8.7 billion, leaving the U.S. government with a tiny profit on the offering, the company and Treasury Department announced.

PR NEWSWIRE - June 6 - First Quarter 2011 Highlights - Income from operations increased 52 % YOY to $ 19.7 M - Adjusted EBITDA increased 33 % YOY to $ 27.2 M - Net loss decreased from $ 0.60 per share in 2010 to $ 0.27 per share in 2011 - Raised $ 50M in gross proceeds from IPO Q1 2011 Revenue was $ 83.5 M, gross profit was $ 56.8 M. On May 11, 2011, FriendFinder completed its IPO, and issued 5M shares of common stock at a price of $ 10.00 per share.

But the stock price is mostly driven by the fact that RIM is increasingly selling low - margin phones, not making the better profits on the higher - end phones that will fund this heavy development shift they're undergoing.

All you need is for the stock to stay above the strike price by expiration day and you will realize the full profit (time premium) on the trade.

When a stock shoots up in price, do you have a specific rule that prompts you to take profits on some or all of the shares?

When day trading nifty options, you have the ability to set clear limits on risk, and the ability to buy and sell the options multiple times to profit again and again from stock price movements.

And that's on top of whatever upside a stock naturally has as a quality business becomes worth more over time (which occurs as its profit increases due to selling more products and / or services to more people at higher prices).

If you're bearish and expect a stock market downturn, you can buy put options on one or more stocks to try to profit from falling prices whether or not you own the underlying stocks.

Stocks trade at prices based on future expectations and speculation, so that means if traders expect a company to double its profits next year, the share price could easily double (there are reasons it might not increase so much, and there are reasons it could increase even more than that, but that's not the point).

The evidence may even point in the opposite direction on this score: The price - to - earnings ratio — what it costs to buy a dollar of a company's profit — for stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index is 16 percent below the level at the end of 2009.

That's because gold has a particularly strong grip on some investors» imaginations, so they tend to bid up gold - stock prices out of proportion to how much profit these companies can make from gold mining.

Gold - mining stocks, on the other hand, let you profit from increases in the price of gold without these onerous costs.

* Overdependence on one product or cyclicality: this is where a company's profits are unsustainably high but the stock market has priced in that the current level of profits is sustainable.

If the stock price was above 50 then the covered call investment would yield $ 4 profit on the stock (because we paid $ 46 and will receive $ 50 when the option is exercised) plus $ 3 on the option (since we sold the option for $ 3), for a total of $ 7 / share (or $ 700 for 100 shares).

Falling EPS was met with a falling stock price, but I'm willing to bet that CAT will be earning much more profit on a per - share basis over the short term and long term.

Personally, I will take profit on a stock under 2 circumstances: 1) if / when its share price reaches / exceeds its intrinsic value or 2) there exists another investment opportunity providing at least 2x risk - adjusted returns compared to holding the current stock

The main reason I profited from the high flier stock was that I held on to my shares thinking my original investment thesis was intact, and I even bought additional shares when prices seemed particularly low.