My goal is to beat
that single digit return when redeeming my points and miles.
Investing while you owe is a valid point because
a single digit return may sound great but the gains could be getting lost if you have a huge credit card or car payment costing you much more.
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).
Onceagain, most Blue Chip stocks will still have to be traded, not «buy and held» for much better than
single digit returns in 2002.
So once we roll that out, just automatically without much happening, if earnings just keep growing a little bit, the S&P's not gonna do double digit returns, it just does
single digit returns.
He predicts
single digit returns for years to come.
Tom Drake from Maple Money shares that there is no benefit in investing for
single digit returns if you have a credit card balance at 20 %.
Over the next year, these strategies may deliver mid-to-high
single digit returns without the asymmetric downside risk of other more traditional investments.
Not exact matches
Some of that is the result of the commodity price slump, but excise its effects, and «earnings growth was somewhere in the low
single digits in Canada and the United States,» says Cooper, whose firm is predicting mid-
single-digit
returns for equities.
According to BlackRock's equity team, an annual
return in the «mid to high
single digits» is not an unreasonable target in the current environment.
«Our working assumption is that long - run cryptocurrency
returns should be equal to (or slightly below) growth in global real output — a number in the low
single digits,» the strategists said.
Instead of the double -
digit returns investors have grown accustomed to, Wessel predicts high
single -
digit returns will be the norm.
In today's lousy investment climate, high
single -
digit returns aren't bad at all.
Nearly half of these hedgies posted only
single -
digit returns for their investors in 2016, «a lackluster sum in a year when the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index was up 12 percent, accounting for reinvested dividends,» writes The New York Times.
Many experts, including Anil Tahiliani, a North American equities portfolio manager with McLean & Partners, expected
single -
digit returns at best.
Since the financial crisis, Morgan Stanley's
return on equity, a key measure of profitability for financial firms, has bounced around in the
single digits.
Bechtel declines to disclose its profits, but its CFO, Peter Dawson, says that its
return on sales is a low -
single -
digit number, comparable to a big retailer like Target tgt or Safeway swy.
Evercore ISI analyst Michael Newshel called out the comments about 2018 in a research note, saying that Aetna will be better positioned to
return to its long - term revenue growth target of mid - to high -
single digits in 2019.
Across asset classes the story was modest
single -
digit positive
returns.
Q: Bill Gross, the head of PIMCO, says we'll never see those kinds of double -
digit returns again; in fact, he's not sure we'll even see high
single digits.
Looking forward, IDC expects shipment volumes to
return to low
single -
digit growth in 2018 and the overall market to experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.8 % over the 2017 - 2022 forecast period with volumes forecast to reach 1.68 billion units in 2022.
Long - term
returns from this portfolio can be expected to be much more modest (in the low - to mid -
single digits).
Even if valuations remain above historical norms a decade from today, it will be extremely difficult for stocks to post total
returns beyond the low
single digits in the coming 10 - year period.
However, despite the outlook for low
single -
digit equity
returns in 2016, «we do feel more optimistic about a number of cohorts and securities,» says Parker.
The basis of my assertion that equity market
returns over the next 10 years will likely be in the low
single digits, if not negative, is my belief in the irresistible force of mean reversion.
Factor in what might be high -
single -
digit business growth over the next year, as well as what's currently a yield of just over 2.25 %, and you could easily make a case for what might be a total
return of ~ 25 % for 2018.
Nominal equity
returns in high
single digits don't get it done when your cost of capital is in the teens, but even more revealing is looking at the zombie banks in terms of risk - adjusted
return on capital or RAROC.
Although the yield may jump around a bit (12.5 % at present) and is contingent on the timing of asset sales, we expect investors to receive a hefty high
single -
digit to low double -
digit return for quite some time.
It's fair to assume that your average annual
returns from long - term investing will be in the high
single digits or low double
digits.
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While admitting that he's since strayed from the
single -
digit body fat range, his goal is to
return from overseas and
return to this level of fitness.
One might judge that the Audi will
return single digit mileage figures, but that assumption will be incorrect.
The whining pump noise
returned at 100,000 miles whenever the temperature outside was in the
single digits.
This results in the number of
returns to publishers are kept very low
single digits, compared to an industry average of 25 %.
As a result, Canadian bonds delivered broadly positive, albeit low
single -
digit,
returns.
The portfolio's characteristics should make it similar to high - yield bonds, offering the chance for some thrills and interest rate insulation plus high
single -
digit returns.
Due to significant deflationary pressures and the rise of interest rates in the United States over the last three years, TIPS ETFs have demonstrated negative
returns in low
single digits.
In 2004 and 2005, the Scion Value Fund generated only
single -
digit returns.
Single digit ROIC figures in water stocks should be unattractive for any investor focused on total
returns.
The only problem is that with today's interest rates he's only earning low
single -
digit rates of
return.
As seen below, the company has maintained a reasonable
return on equity in the mid - to high -
single digits over the last decade.
«The market has gone up so much that, based on valuation, it is overvalued again to a meaningful degree where the expected
returns logically from here can be as low as the low
single digits or zero for the next several years,» he says.
For example, gilt funds were on a roll giving
returns to the tune of 14 percent before going down to
single -
digit returns last year.
Does this mean that the expectation for equity
returns in the U.S. for the foreseeable future is at best in the low
single digit range?
We see broad domestic exposures, like the FTSE TMX Canada Universe Bond Index delivering low
single -
digit returns on average over the next 10 years.
Keep the speculating percentage of your portfolio in the low
single digits — if the gamble is a success, it might
return several times your investment, but if it flops you'll only be out a little
Are the days of the high
single digit domestic long - term equity
returns a thing of the past?
Even if valuations remain above historical norms a decade from today, it will be extremely difficult for stocks to post total
returns beyond the low
single digits in the coming 10 - year period.