Sentences with phrase «valuation multiple expansion»

When you're in this type of market, I think the best investing style is buying stuff with a few catalysts, that are dirt dirt cheap (cause then you can still get legit valuation multiple expansion), and have slightly lower market exposure.

«These metrics suggest income statement momentum and valuation multiple expansion,» she says.

Not exact matches

When you purchase a broad swath of equities, say an S&P 500 index fund, the returns you can expect over the next decade or so comprise four building blocks: the starting dividend yield, projected growth in real earnings per share, expected inflation, and the expected change in «valuation» — that is, the expansion or contraction in the price / earnings (P / E) multiple.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Our single - biggest concern continues to be stretched valuations, which suggests there is little room for multiple expansion.

Aside from dividends paid, price appreciation breaks down into two sources: growth in FFO / AFFO and / or expansion in the valuation multiple (price - to - FFO or price - to - AFFO ratio).

Their valuations are built on low expectations, which leaves room for multiple expansion, or at least minimal contraction.

I consider my valuation multiple a reasonable compromise between higher sector multiples & the risk of a devastating client loss... Plus it allows me to (fairly) comfortably apply a (positive) debt adjustment: Based on the company's 4.7 M of (annualized) adjusted operating profit (& zero debt), management could easily draw down 14.2 M of debt for expansion, acquisitions, etc. — as usual, I'll haircut this by 50 %.

At 13 times forward earnings, Apple already suffers from the lowest relative valuations within the cohort, and is even lower than the greater S&P 500's multiple of 17 times, so any multiple expansion would be welcomed.