Sentences with phrase «valuations of companies like»

We've had a few years where valuations of companies like P&G have shot up quite a bit despite no growth and they'll definitely be impacted as yields continue to rise and the market prices them back down to fair value as the dividends are no longer as appealing.

Not exact matches

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

That may be why WeWork has a tech - level valuation of $ 20 billion — though skeptics question whether it should be treated like a tech company, given that real estate is so integral to its main product.

The lofty valuation comes in part because companies like HootSuite, surfing the social media wave, have been getting acquired ravenously of late.

As Agnieszka notes, although having a high valuation doesn't sound like the worst thing for a startup (it is a bit of an ego boost after - all), it could seriously harm a company.

Over the past few years, we've seen traction: Consider VMWare's $ 1.54 billion acquisition of AirWatch; the growth of startup hubs like Atlanta Tech Village and Tech Square; and company success stories like that of Kabbage, which just raised $ 150 million, at an $ 875 million valuation.

The billion - user milestone is an achievement that lots of tech companies dream of, like billion - dollar valuations or hiring in - house DJs.

His deep - value philosophy can be boiled down to four points: he's looking for high - quality stocks that protect against the downside; he wants businesses where short - term issues have caused investors to abandon the company; he wants to wait until valuations are «out - of - this - world» cheap, and he tries not to pay attention to macro issues like eurozone debt or Chinese growth.

Galloway said companies like Uber — with a valuation of $ 70 billion according to recent company press releases — would likely be worth much less if subjected to the scrutiny of the public market.

The result is that funds have been forced to hold on to aging portfolio companies for longer than they would like, and growing piles of unspent capital have ensured that competition for any new deals is intense, keeping valuations high.

Companies like Facebook and Zynga — and Pandora — have seen ballooning valuations as investors have rushed to snatch up as many shares as possible ahead of what could be some of the most high - profile tech IPOs to date.

The discussions may become tests of whether high - profile private companies can continue to raise new capital, even as some big names — like Snapchat and Dropbox — have seen their valuations marked down by mutual fund investors.

This focus on an asset's earnings power and, in particular, the ability of assets to earn returns in excess of desired returns is the essence of my intrinsic valuation, which is based on Steven Penman's residual income model.1 The basic idea is that if a company is not earning a return in excess of our desired return, that company, like the bank account example above, deserves no premium to book value.

In addition to liking BMC's products, we liked the company's aggressive share repurchases and its valuation, which is much lower than the multiple of sales at which many similar companies have been acquired.

Although the company would only formally value the common stock at that price once it completes a so - called 409a valuation — which sometimes happens shortly after an acquisition like this, in part for tax purposes — this offer is almost certain to affect the so - called fair market value of the company in its next 409a review.

Because Facebook's common stock is stripped of many of the preferences that the stock of investors like DST or Microsoft has, the valuation for the common stock will be the best indicator of the company's true worth at that point in time.

In that sense all analysis of stock market based on historical metrics do nt make much sense since composition of stocks is entirely different in different era and as more capital efficient business model evolve and their time to market cycle shrinks stocks likely to command higher valuations and suddenly lower valuations during short period of time like already happening for many technology companies and as influence of technology on overall cost structure of companies increases (for example: robotics replace many of employees cost etc) valuation matrix of most companies likely to get affected dynamically in short duration of time than in the past.

The company says that I shouldn't focus on this number, because the 409a valuation wasn't really a valuation of the company... that it didn't account for growth projections, or something like that.

A current example is the use of metrics like «price per eyeball» to justify the valuations of internet focused companies and divert attention from the fact that on traditional valuation metric these companies can look very expensive.

Focusing on balance sheets and private - market valuations of small companies cuts through the noise sounded by volatile stock markets like today's.

The Fund Manager will evaluate the business environment that a company operates in, the capability of the management to execute and scale up the business and valuation of the company based on fundamentals like discounted cash flows and PE ratios, etc..

I still have many companies I'd like to invest in at some point in time, but valuations will determine the timing, not the number of positions in my portfolio.

If you add in some quality metrics (eg, to filter out miners over-investing), this tends to throw up situations where metrics like ROE may have been impeded by some temporary setback (which might affect your valuation models negatively), but where the underlying cash flow / quality of earnings remains strong, or small growing companies where cash flow is improving at a faster rate than earnings, and it's just a matter of time before earnings (and therefore valuation) catch up.

With a more hedge fund like multiple of 10 % of AUM the company should be worth 32M, and with 20M in assets we would get a valuation at 52M.

The outcome is so binary, in hindsight an equity valuation will be far too low, or high... I often notice that the market / investors can ignore debt for long periods of time — i.e. they value a company almost exactly like its debt free peer.

I can't see how they warrant this valuation at all, as they're trading up there with the likes of companies like Visa.

I for one also like buying a basket of perfectly good average or above average companies on small market or industry pull backs at low valuations... I find these are my bread and butter and almost sure things...

Focusing on balance sheets and private - market valuations of small companies cuts through the noise sounded by volatile stock markets like -LSB-...]

Now, a bidder would obviously prefer to harvest the benefit of these savings & valuation uplift for itself... I'm just trying to illustrate the potential underlying value of a small company, like Newmark, in the hands of an acquirer.

My interest in Gazprom was piqued by the situation in Russia (and the Ukraine), but I particularly like the valuation of the company (Gazprom) as well as the general market.

This focus on an asset's earnings power and, in particular, the ability of assets to earn returns in excess of desired returns is the essence of my intrinsic valuation, which is based on Steven Penman's residual income model.1 The basic idea is that if a company is not earning a return in excess of our desired return, that company, like the bank account example above, deserves no premium to book value.

Ultimately, if the company looks like it's steadily executing on a turn - around (and a debt pay - down schedule), its valuation will conversely enjoy mark - up gains well ahead of its underlying progress.

While certain high growth companies might be fairly valued at these levels, highly mature, low growth businesses like WD - 40 have no history of trading consistently at these sorts of rich valuations.

The identification and valuation of these assets, which can be held in both domestic and offshore vehicles such as trusts, limited liability entities and the like, can trigger significant discovery disputes and involve multiple valuation experts (and the related review of valuation reports), lengthy depositions and the related forensic accounting and valuation of both funds and underlying portfolio companies.