This time I selected three of the top silver
stocks by their P / E ratio for analysis.
Predictive Value: Sorting US
stocks by P / E percentile shows that the lowest P / E class earned 16 % on average, while the highest P / E class earned less than 9 %.
Sorting
stocks by P / E and investing in the low P / E stocks is only part of how value investors choose stocks to invest in.
It is a commonly held misconception that all value investors do is sort
stocks by P / E and invest in those with low P / E.
Not exact matches
Most public - company
stocks are valued
by their price - to - earnings, or
P / E ratio, but Twitter has no earnings.
As John Heinzl points out in an article in today's Globe and Mail, Apple's
P / E was up to about 50 in 2007, and since that time the
stock has risen
by about 65 %.
In other words, if a company is reporting basic or diluted earnings per share of $ 2 and the
stock is selling for $ 20 per share, the
p / e ratio is 10 ($ 20 per share divided
by $ 2 earnings per share = 10
p / e).
This is especially useful because, if you invert the
p / e ratio
by taking it divided
by 1, you can calculate a
stock's earnings yield.
Often these
stocks have the highest
P / E ratios (
stock price divided
by 12 - month earnings per share), and market timing is, therefore, particularly important.
The first is to look at the well - known price - to - earnings (
P / E) ratio, or the
stock price divided
by the company's earnings per share (EPS).
Next I sorted all columns
by TTM
P / E and eliminated every
stock with a TTM
P / E over 20.
Price - to - earnings (
P / E) ratio takes the current price of a
stock divided
by its earnings per share.
Price - to - Earnings Ratio (
P / E Ratio)-- How much a
stock costs relative to how much the company earns per share of
stock; calculated
by dividing the
stock price
by the company's earnings per share (EPS)
«It grows earnings not so much
by the brilliance of management or the diversity of their operations, as Welch and Immelt claim, but through the acquisition of companies (more than 100 companies in each of the last five years) using high - powered, high
P / E multiple GE
stock or cheap near Treasury Bill yielding commercial paper.
Notes: Price: Closing price per share;
P / E: Price to earnings ratio; Total Return: The total return generated
by the
stock over the last year.
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For instance, as measured
by price - to - earnings (
P / E) and price - to - book (
P / B) valuations metrics, EM
stocks continue to trade at a roughly 30 % discount to the broader global equity market (source: MSCI, as of 3/31/2015).
This approach focuses on
stocks that are undervalued
by the market, with low
P / E ratios, a strong asset - to - liabilities ratio, and strong financial fundamentals.
From an analytical perspective, nothing affects the
stock market except
by affecting these three factors: dividend payouts, earnings growth, and
P / E ratios.
You find a
P / E ratio
by dividing a
stock's share price
by the earnings per share, or EPS, which is simply the total net profits from the last year divided
by the total number of outstanding shares.
A
stock's PEG ratio — its price - to - earnings ratio divided
by the growth rate of its earnings — often is considered a more complete assessment of a company's current valuation than a
P / E ratio because it takes earnings growth into account.
And then, between 2008 and 2011, when the
stock got cheap again with a
P / E ratio in the mid teens, Schnatter reduced the share count
by 20 million — taking it from 65 million to 45 million.
During year 3, Monk Mart again raises its dividend
by 8 % from $ 1.08 to $ 1.17 per share, and because the
P / E and payout ratio remained static, the
stock price is now $ 34.99 per share.
Aside from investing in mainland China companies via Hong Kong
Stock connect, investment firms can get China exposure
by piggy backing on other registered foreign investors through Participatory Notes or «
P - Notes».
When dealing with growth
stocks, the
P / E ratio is the current price per share divided
by earnings per share (also known as the EPS).
If the dividend grows
by 8 % each year, and the payout ratio remains 40 % and the
P / E remains 12, that means that the
stock price will also increase
by 8 % each year.
The
P / E for the
stock market is driven
by the trend in and level of the inflation rate.
The current valuation of the S&
P 500 is lofty
by almost any measure, both for the aggregate market as well as the median
stock: (1) The
P / E ratio; (2) the current
P / E expansion cycle; (3) EV / Sales; (4) EV / EBITDA; (5) Free Cash Flow yield; (6) Price / Book as well as the ROE and
P / B relationship; and compared with the levels of (6) inflation; (7) nominal 10 - year Treasury yields; and (8) real interest rates.
I frequently present calculations of probable long - term
stock returns
by making a few assumptions about long - term peak - to - peak growth in earnings and various future
P / E multiples.
Lee screened for
stocks with low
P / Es, positive net income growth, that had Overweight ratings
by JPMorgan analysts and upside to analyst target prices.
Netflix's
stock valuation has been a constant source of debate for years, and currently is trading at a price - to - earnings (
P / E) ratio of 123x, which is rich
by almost every measure — no matter what kind of business model it is.
Though I certainly wouldn't advise it as a strategy, investors would have historically outperformed the S&
P 500 with much less risk than a buy - and - hold simply
by selling
stocks when the S&
P reached 19 times earnings and staying in T - bills until the
P / E reverted to 15, even if it took years to do so.
Based on the price - to - book (
P / B) metric, since 1995, value
stocks, as defined
by the Russell 1000 Value Index, have typically traded at around a 55 % discount to growth
stocks.
By raising
P / E ratios, it lowers the cost of capital... Rather than inflating a bond bubble, our view is that the Fed needs to impact the assets that are directly relevant to is objective, namely
stocks.»
By that logic, even 100
P / E for
stocks would be much cheaper than bonds, which is obviously crazy at that level.
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The company is not expected to grow revenues
by very much year - over-year and with a high
P / E of 45.1, any hiccup in earnings could lead to a very volatile year for the
stock.
The second FASTGraphs valuation looks at «fair value» being defined
by the
stock's long - term average
P / FFO ratio.
A
stock's price - earnings (
P / E) ratio — its share price divided
by its earnings per share — is of particular interest to a value investor, as are the price - to - sales ratio, the dividend yield, the price - to - book ratio, and the rate of sales growth.
These
stocks are then ranked
by the criteria being tested; in this case, we are testing the
P / FCF ratio.
Price / book (or
P / B) ratio is calculated
by dividing the market price of a company's outstanding
stock by its book value (total assets of a company less liabilities) and then adjusting for the number of shares outstanding.
Varying
stock and bond allocations with valuations (as measured
by P / E10) improves performance.
If you started with a $ 500,000 portfolio of low -
P / B value
stocks in the summer of 2007,
by the spring of 2009 you would have been left with about $ 170,000.
Many U.S.
stocks have wide moats so to narrow the list I added in a little Graham
by focusing on the lowest combination of
P / E and
P / B ratios.
The value test Value investors like solid
stocks selling at low prices, so we begin
by looking for those with low price - to - book - value ratios (
P / B).
You might start out
by varying
stock allocations according to
P / E10.
3) The
stock market experiences extended periods of secular bull markets and secular bear markets based on the trend in
P / E ratios, which is driven
by the trend in inflation.
We divide the
stock's actual
P / E ratio of 12.6 (circled in red)
by the ratio of 15 that was used to draw the orange line.