Not exact matches
«If... investors start to
value Citigroup like it's an electric
utility, it should trade at a much higher
stock price,» Nygren says.
Dominion Energy on Wednesday it would buy Scana in an all -
stock deal that
values the electric
utility company at about $ 7.9 billion.
Vistra Energy will buy Dynegy in an all -
stock deal, the U.S.
utilities said on Monday, creating a company with a market
value of more than $ 10 billion.
As of February 26th, 2016, the total
value of all
utilities stocks in the United States came to $ 1.19 trillion, or about 2.8 % of the market.
1970s «stagflation» was positive smallcap,
value and energy
stocks, commodities and real estate, negative large - cap, growth, tech and
utilities stocks (Chart 3).
Note 1970s «stagflation» was positive small - cap,
value and energy
stocks, commodities and real estate, negative large - cap, growth, tech and
utilities stocks
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For public
utilities, the debt should not exceed twice the
stock equity at book
value.
From our perspective,
stocks in less cyclical sectors, such as
utilities and consumer staples, generally offered much less
value and appeared to be trading at steep valuations.
Following the Fed move, investors went straight for the glamour tech
stocks, dumping
utilities, pharmaceuticals, consumer staples, hospital
stocks, insurance
stocks - anything that smacked of safety or
value.
The usefulness — or
utility — of each company is roughly measured by the
value of the
stock.
The recent price to earnings ratio is about 15 times making the
stock attractively
valued compared to other regulated
utilities.
Most
utilities, packaged food and mature pharmaceutical companies possess characteristics often thought of as typical for
value stocks: high free cash generation, high quality balance sheets and high dividend payouts.
Low - volatility strategies typically have a high allocation to
utilities, healthcare and consumer staples
stocks, or to «deep
value» equities.
Continuously declining long - term rates created two tailwinds for his portfolio: 1) It continuously reduced borrowing costs for highly leveraged companies; and 2) Drove up
values of high yielding
stocks (look at what
utilities, MLPs and REITs have done over the same time period).
Strategic Dividend
Value is hedged at about half the value of its stock holdings, and Strategic Total Return continues to hold a duration of just over 3.5 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with less than 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility sh
Value is hedged at about half the
value of its stock holdings, and Strategic Total Return continues to hold a duration of just over 3.5 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with less than 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility sh
value of its
stock holdings, and Strategic Total Return continues to hold a duration of just over 3.5 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund
value by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with less than 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility sh
value by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with less than 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in
utility shares.
As much as I believe
stocks are fairly -
valued, perhaps overvalued in some defensive sectors like
utilities, their inflation resilience is unmatched.
Investors traditionally
value utilities on a dividend discount model which makes
stock prices a function of after - tax dividend distributions.
With low growth
utility stocks, it pays to wait for fair
value to manifest.
The recent price to earnings ratio is about 15 times making the
stock attractively
valued compared to other regulated
utilities.
Following the Fed move, investors went straight for the glamour tech
stocks, dumping
utilities, pharmaceuticals, consumer staples, hospital
stocks, insurance
stocks - anything that smacked of safety or
value.
Conversely, stable businesses like pharmaceuticals and high - dividend
utilities stocks shed hardly any
value, but never moved strongly as the economy improved — their sales were unaffected by slowdown or reversion.
Stocks like Canadian Oil Sands are a relative bargain right now, so I'd maybe add those dividend stocks rather than adding to the relatively high value teleco's and util
Stocks like Canadian Oil Sands are a relative bargain right now, so I'd maybe add those dividend
stocks rather than adding to the relatively high value teleco's and util
stocks rather than adding to the relatively high
value teleco's and
utilities.
Generally slow growing, but high - yielding and inexpensive relative to earnings,
utilities are the traditional dividend
value stock.
The public
utility holding companies, in fact, were even more vulnerable to a
stock price change since their ratio of price to book
value averaged 4.44 (Wigmore, p. 43).