Sentences with phrase «ratios were in the single digits»

By the time that decade ended, price - to - earnings ratios were in the single digits — but you had little or nothing to show for buying cheap equities during the prior 15 years; and that's before accounting for very high inflation.

In fact, the big run up in stocks started in the early 80s when PE ratios were in the single digits and interest rates were very high.

«Generally pick the cheapest term insurance where claim repudiation ratios are in single digits.

Not exact matches

I'm actively looking at my debt and determining if it makes more sense to pay down mortgages (locking in a guaranteed ~ 4 % return) or investing in bonds (~ 1 % returns if held to maturity) or stocks (uncertain, but I just wrote an article about the current PE ratio and the inevitable reversion to the mean and I believe we are likely headed for 10 years of low single digit returns).

Almost all of the stocks I looked at in Value line are single digit current P / E ratios as well.