"Stock multiples" refer to ratios that are used to evaluate the value of a company's stock in relation to its financial performance. It helps investors and analysts compare the stock price with specific financial metrics, such as earnings, revenue, or book value, to determine if the stock is undervalued or overvalued.
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If you trade in and out of the same
stock multiple times within a single day it may appear that you're unfairly treated under the wash sale rule.
A simple linear regression
of stock multiples versus interest rates demonstrates that over the very long term, rates and market multiples are negatively correlated.
REITs targeted for an acquisition or merger often have high exposure to speculative development projects, and a
weak stock multiple compared to the acquiring company.
This weekend, Bandier, an activewear retailer that
stocks multiple brands, launched a private - label collection called «We Over Me» online, in five of its stores, and on Net - A-Porter.
When stock multiples are trading much higher (and dividend yields much lower), we'll know there is a «dividend bubble.»
The Matlacks expect to sell both to individual farmers and to startup companies that will
stock multiple machines and bale, stack, and haul as a service to biomass providers.
Fast forward six months, and the high - street has firmly taken note of the catwalk with brands
stocking multiple designs based on the retro classic.
Libraries often have to
stock multiple copies of best sellers when they are in demand to be able to satisfy more number of patrons though the multiple copies become redundant once they go out of favor in a year or two.
In Australia, retailer Harvey Norman is reporting that PlayBook sales are exceeding their expectations and they have had to
re-order stock multiple times to stay on top of demand.
And those focused solely on wealth preservation also struggle: i) they never take a risk, and end up permanently besieged by inflation & taxes, or ii) they duck for cover in defensive (food, health, etc.) & dividend stocks — not a bad strategy, but inevitably it becomes one - dimensional & ends in a price bubble (future growth can't hope to support
defensive stock multiples), or an income bubble (dividends are never - ending & will always increase...).
Expanding the label claim for DEFENSOR provides veterinarians with a rabies vaccine that they can use on the majority of their small and large animal patients without having to
stock multiple products,» said Shelley Stanford, DVM, group director, Companion Animal Division Veterinary Professional Services at Zoetis.
For example, you can see in the period from about 1965 - 1982
when stock multiples were contracting in the U.S. that more and more large U.S. businesses were producing very bad real returns on equity.
The question for any investor given today's
high stock multiples AND low bond yields globally is how much this matters not only over an intermediate time frame, but over a period potentially
Yet, isn't that what investors are doing when they check the price of
their stocks multiple times a day, or even just once a week?
The company has split
its stock multiple times.