Historically, they've earned
a relatively high return on investments over time, but they've also had moments of steep decline.
Not exact matches
Combined with low capital intensity — which means that a
relatively low capital base is required to grow the business — the result is the potential for an extremely
high return on investment.
For example, a 2004 report for the World Bank found textbooks in appropriate languages are a
relatively low - cost
investment in developing countries that yield
high returns on student achievement.
If you're lucky enough to be paying historically low rates (as I am
on my mortgage) and getting good
returns on the
investments so the latter is the
higher percentage, the balance goes the other way and you'd want to continue paying off the debt
relatively slowly — essentially treating it as a leveraged
investment.
Although stocks are currently priced
relatively high, in reality there are few useful alternatives for securing even an average
return on investment.
FBD's
investment return was no surprise, but the higher COR held back Return on Equity a little... However, I think we can count on FBD to be relatively conservative in their guidance, so if I extrapolate we should still be looking at a 16.5 % + RoE — not far off the 18 - 20 % I might have exp
return was no surprise, but the
higher COR held back
Return on Equity a little... However, I think we can count on FBD to be relatively conservative in their guidance, so if I extrapolate we should still be looking at a 16.5 % + RoE — not far off the 18 - 20 % I might have exp
Return on Equity a little... However, I think we can count
on FBD to be
relatively conservative in their guidance, so if I extrapolate we should still be looking at a 16.5 % + RoE — not far off the 18 - 20 % I might have expected.
«First the
relatively focused,
higher cost producers, and then also more diversified integrated players, as operating cash flows decline, weakening free cash flow and credit measures, and
returns on investment become less certain and reserve replacement less robust.»
The interesting, central finding of the theory paper is that when a «fortune» (available resources) fall below a certain critical level (determined by the cost per unit time of surviving, and the stochastic
return investments available to the investor), the optimal policy becomes what economists call a «risk - seeking» one, where the investor should place
relatively large bets
on relatively high payoff, low probability of payoff gambles.