Sentences with phrase «rising valuation multiples»

European value stocks have kept pace broadly with the other benchmarks in the past few years thanks to essentially one force alone — rising valuation multiples.

The first is that rising valuation multiples have been the nearly singular cause for higher prices over the last few years.

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Kostin also outlined three strategies: Secular growth, or companies where sales growth is expected to rise at least 10 percent for multiple years without high valuations; firms that are investing in capital expenditures and research and development; and companies with a strong chance to be acquired.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

These periods are driven by generally rising multiples of valuation as measured by the price / earnings ratio (P / E).

Considering its low - single - digit growth recently and the huge portion of revenue the product segment already contributes, rising iPhone sales may not be enough for investors to award Apple a higher valuation multiple.

Combined with earnings growth, we see these returns of capital to shareholders offsetting some valuation challenges: Investors are typically unwilling to bid up equity valuation multiples when rising interest rates and inflation threaten to erode corporate profit margins.

That contribution can vary, but on average, about 80 percent of the one - year price gain (or loss) is typically driven by rising (or falling) valuation multiples.

The speculative component rose above 100 percent during the 2008 - 2009 bear market, when the drop in valuation multiples made up the entire loss in share value, on average.

Now consider the growth stock: It actually ends up delivering a consistent 15 % annual gain in revenue & earnings — based on that performance, your fair value estimate rises accordingly & we can be pretty confident the market's happy to maintain or increase its valuation multiple.

AUM trends, or the stability of Argo Real Estate Opportunities Fund (AREO: LN), might present risk (s) to this valuation, but one could also speculate on a higher valuation based on share buybacks, rising AUM & margins, and a higher market valuation multiple.

However, with Welltower trading near all - time highs and many bond - like stocks trading at premium valuation multiples relative to history, short - term, more risk averse investors need to keep in mind the risk of a short to medium - term correction if rates do begin to rise and cause capital outflows for bond - like stocks.