Sentences with phrase «value traps whose»

The problem with magic formula companies is that too many of the stocks in the top 50 are value traps whose business models aren't sustainable, and are on the list when the past 12 months is a poor predictor of future returns.

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«Value traps» are cheap for a reason — perhaps an inept and entrenched management, a poor history of capital allocation, or assets whose value is in inexorable decline.&rValue traps» are cheap for a reason — perhaps an inept and entrenched management, a poor history of capital allocation, or assets whose value is in inexorable decline.&rvalue is in inexorable decline.»

In his book The Conundrum, David Owen, a staff writer at the New Yorker, contends that as long as the West places high and unquestioning value on economic growth and consumer gratification — with China and the rest of the developing world right behind — we will continue to burn the fossil fuels whose emissions trap heat in the atmosphere.