However, the company's dividend growth would almost certainly take a deep hit, potentially resulting in several years of little to no growth and
weak stock performance.
Early earnings season action, with strong results and
weak stock performance, show that profits alone won't drive the market higher.
Not exact matches
Technology
stocks were among the strongest performers in Europe on Friday, following a
weak performance on Wall Street in the previous session.
The deterioration in operational
performance, profit margins and financial strength of
weaker listed companies could weigh down their
stock prices when interest rates are moving higher.
However, the JSE All - share index, the broadest measure of
stock market
performance, is down roughly 7 percent from a peak notched up in January due to
weak global sentiment and profit taking.
As many investors know, although an extreme lack of growth is generally associated with
weak markets, outside of recessions there is a very
weak relationship between
stock market
performance and economic growth.
But despite U.S.
stocks» strong
performance last week, U. S. investors are facing two lingering issues:
weak earnings growth and expensive valuations.
04/23/2018 The
stock market put in another choppy
performance today, ending the session on a mixed - to -
weak note.
South Korea's largest confectionery company Lotte Confectionery's
stock has been impacted due to delayed profitability recovery with the
weak Korean won (KRW) and poor
performance of its overseas investments, according to the company's latest financial report.
Mead Johnson Nutrition Co.'s
stock sank Thursday after the infant formula maker said a safety scare in North America,
weak European economies and an inventory reduction in China all affected its third - quarter
performance.
On a closing note, there is a
weak positive correlation in most mature industries between
stock price
performance and relative decreases in share count, assets, and sales.
As the
performance results show, a
weak Style Score robs the
stock of much of its upside potential over the next 30 days.
Value
stocks are the tired, old, beaten down companies, suffering from
weak recent
performance, negative headlines, or bleak prospects for the future.
The
stock market struggles in the 2nd year after the recession, so the
stock market's
performance is
weak despite such «strong» earnings growth.
CNBC published an interesting study yesterday demonstrating that the
stock market's forward
performance is
weak when earnings growth is as high as it is today.
In one of 2018's marquee tech IPOs, Dropbox's
stock pop showed a high demand for tech IPOs, despite
weak performance by some major tech
stocks, including an 11 percent decline for Facebook in the past month as revelations of a data scandal erupted last week.
At times when the yield spread was greater than 180 basis points — that is, when REIT dividend yields were extraordinarily low, reflecting REIT
stock prices that were especially high relative to their current distributions — REIT
performance over the next year tended to be
weak, with total returns that averaged 6.98 percent and underperformed the broad
stock market by 1.84 percentage points.