Sentences with phrase «public utility stocks»

A second probable cause was the great expansion of investment trusts, public utility holding companies, and the amount of margin buying, all of which fueled the purchase of public utility stocks, and drove up their prices.

Third, there are the public utility stocks that appear to be the best candidate as the actual trigger of the crash.

Not exact matches

For public utilities, the debt should not exceed twice the stock equity at book value.

«Scandals and perceived corruption in governance and the society generally, socio - economic hardships such as unstable currency, unstable power supplies — undermining both industrial and domestic ventures — executive bureaucratic delays in the public sector, especially at the ports, many industrial actions, protest demonstrations throughout the economy, sudden and high tariff increases for utilities, and ever - bloating national debt stock, have hall - marked the out - going year,» he observed.

Smith covers the Utilities sector, focusing on stocks such as Pinnacle West Capital Corp., Public Service Enterprise, and American Electric Power.

In a previous job I used FactSet to pull historical monthly pricing and quarterly fundamental data for a universe of over 100 regulated utility stocks (both current and past public firms).

Over the years we have consistently owned electric utilities because there always seem to be stocks that are temporarily depressed because of a bad rate decision by the public service commission.

Public utilities, utility holding companies, and investment trusts were all highly levered using large amounts of debt and preferred stock.

The public utility holding companies, in fact, were even more vulnerable to a stock price change since their ratio of price to book value averaged 4.44 (Wigmore, p. 43).

The declines were led by the motor stocks and public utilities.