Sentences with phrase «tech valuation bubble»

«If Uber or any other unicorn gets the public markets to agree that yeah, it's worth $ 50 billion, that could avoid» bursting the tech valuation bubble.

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Billion - dollar valuations and mega-rounds are just a few of the signs that a tech bubble may be forming.

Achieving that unworldly valuation in such a short time has Butterfield fielding lots of questions lately about tech bubbles and whether these sudden fortunes are built on solid foundations or merely the giddiness of a moment.

He has noticed that there is a bubble, but says it's mainly confined to valuations of tech unicorns.

The investor points to Facebook as an example of how tech company valuations can skyrocket postvaluation — and makes the case that if anyone is in a bubble, it's the traditional incumbent companies, ripe for disruption.

Overall, it's been a tough year for tech startups, with investors slashing valuations, VCs yelling «bubble,» and quite a few complete shut - downs.

Let's look at large valuations over the last 30 years; the tech job bubble with crazy bonuses, the tech startup valuation bubble, the housing bubble.

The valuation of many tech companies may appear high, but forward P / E's in the 20's generally are not in bubble territory.

Rapid share price growth and high valuations based on standard metrics, such as price / earnings ratio or price / sales, characterize a tech bubble.

This has some observers asking if we're not seeing something resembling the 1990s tech bubble, when valuations ballooned, a few major tech giants led the way, and companies with no prospects to make money went public.

That's a key difference compared with the dotcom bubble in 1999 - 2000, when tech valuations blew through the roof more on hope and promises than actual earnings prospects.

On the other side of the duel are those that counter that, while tech stocks are perhaps not «cheap», their current valuations are nowhere near the nose - bleed levels of a bubble.

Essays discussing the absurd valuations at the height of the tech bubble, and the miscalculations of investment banks, the Federal Reserve, mortgage lenders and others during the housing bubble.

That's what drove the internet and tech stock bubbles of high valuations.

History is replete with such self - reinforcing trends divorced from valuations: the tulip craze in 1630s Holland, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, railway manias of the mid-1800s, the roaring bull market of the 1920s, Nifty Fifty stocks in the 1960s, Japan's asset price bubble of the 1980s, and the late 1990s tech bubble, to name just Bubble of 1720, railway manias of the mid-1800s, the roaring bull market of the 1920s, Nifty Fifty stocks in the 1960s, Japan's asset price bubble of the 1980s, and the late 1990s tech bubble, to name just bubble of the 1980s, and the late 1990s tech bubble, to name just bubble, to name just a few.

On the other hand, the stock valuation patterns from 2011 - 2016 are eerily reminiscent of what transpired (1994 - 1999) prior to the bursting of the tech bubble.

«Momentum (growth) stocks trade at an extreme premium to value stocks, with the valuation spread the highest since 1980, except for during the tech bubble,» JPMorgan strategist Dubravko Lakos - Bujas wrote recently.

In June 2017, analysts in firms such as Goldman Sachs and UBS stated that the high valuations and unusual low volatility attached to these stocks are similar to tech stocks which crashed after the tech bubble burst in 2000.

Adhering to the 15 P / E valuation reference during the tech bubble would have avoided years of poor performance as price moved into alignment.

An example is the Tech bubble of 1999 - 2000, when overall valuations were very high, but there existed many opportunities in «old - world» industries that didn't get caught up in the speculative craze that affected technology, telecommunications and media stocks.

Having said that, the validity of a story, at the end of the day, can't justify the insane gains that we are experiencing currently, just as the validity of the dot - com story didn't justify the lofty valuations of basically non-existent business during the late phase of the tech - bubble.