Sentences with phrase «year book value»

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Adjusted book value per share of $ 84.54, up 1 % from year - end 2017.

Book value per share of $ 85.03 decreased 3 % from year - end 2017 and adjusted book value per share of $ 84.54 increased 1 % from year - end 2Book value per share of $ 85.03 decreased 3 % from year - end 2017 and adjusted book value per share of $ 84.54 increased 1 % from year - end 2book value per share of $ 84.54 increased 1 % from year - end 2017.

In two moves last year, the company lopped $ 2.9 billion off Safeway's book value — half what it paid for the business.

Over the last 52 years (that is, since present management took over), per - share book value has grown from $ 19 to $ 172,108, a rate of 19 % compounded annually.»

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«One friendly but sharp - eyed commentator on Berkshire has pointed out that our book value at the end of 1964 would have bought about one - half ounce of gold and, 15 years later, after we have plowed back all earnings along with much blood, sweat and tears, the book value produced will buy about the same half ounce.

It's been more than four years now since the giddily titled book Go Canada: The Coming Boom in the Toronto Stock Market and How to Profit From It hit store shelves, advising its hopeful readers that within a decade the Toronto Stock Exchange would more than double in value to 30,000 points.

The company should see earnings per share and book value each grow by 12 % a year, she says.

But last year saw more cooperation with competitors (remember the Microsoft appearance at last year's Apple event) in the name of increased value, and new products like the Surface Book.

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The Bank of Georgia, a leading bank in the Eurasian country, has had a return on equity of more than 20 % for a number of years, despite trading at book value.

The stock trades at just about 11 times its expected earnings for next year — and it trades at the widest discount - to - book value of the major banks.

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Indeed, the book values of the S&P 500 and Dow Industrials have declined over the past year, as assets continue to be written down.

For years, Berkshire's book value was Mr. Buffett's preferred measure for comparing Berkshire's performance to the S. & P. 500 and he highlighted the comparison on a table on the first page of the letter.

Figures from the Publishers Association's annual yearbook revealed that the invoiced value of consumer e-books dropped by close to 11 % to # 245m, the first fall since it started monitoring digital book sales seven years ago.

A 2012 Credit Suisse Research Institute report evaluated the performance of 2,360 companies globally over six years and found that companies with one or more women on boards delivered higher average returns on equity, lower leverage, better average growth and higher price / book value multiples.

«In prior years, I explained why buying back our stock at tangible book value per share was a no - brainer..

Over the last 53 years (that is, since present management took over), per share book value has grown from $ 19 to $ 211,750, a rate of 19.1 % compounded annually»

There are certainly some periods when actual 10 - year returns have deviated from the estimates implied by fundamentals (normalized earnings, forward earnings, revenues, book values, dividends).

Offering bank investors a view of the company stock, Dimon contended that it still made financial sense for JPMorgan to buy back shares «even at or above two times tangible book value» per share, which was $ 53.56 at year - end.

Given your belief that Berkshire's intrinsic value continues to exceed its book value with the difference continuing to widen over time, are we at a point where it makes sense to consider buying back stock at a higher break point that Berkshire currently has in place and would you ever consider stepping in buying back shares that did dip down below 1.2 times book value per share even if that prior years» figure had not yet been released?

Even as the shares dipped down below the 1.2 times book value threshold during both January and February of this year, if you base it on a buyback price calculated on Berkshire's book value per share at the end of 2015.

It finished the financial year with $ 35m in debt and only $ 1.5 m in book value.

Adjusted book value, a measure of the company's net worth, was $ 93.55 per share as of Mar 31, 2018, up 15.3 % year over year.

We own one small European company that is loss making, burning through about $ 10m of cash per year and trades at 14 times book value.

Trading at over 2x book value, the shares of the $ 440 billion total asset USB are up 2x the S&P 500 over the past year.

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This suggests that Berkshire shares, now trading for nearly 1.6 times its Sept. 30 book value of $ 187,435 — the high end of its price / book value range dating back several years — are cheaper than they appear.

Many of the dumb mistakes of omission I've made have come from caring too much about exactly what a business looks like now (what it's reporting in earnings, showing in book value, etc.) rather than what I think it'll roughly look like in 5 years.

If our estimate of Dec. 31 book value proves accurate, Berkshire shares trade closer to 1.4 times year - end book.

For example, I bought Bancinsurance at under 70 % of book value, because I knew it had a combined ratio below 100 in 28 of the last 30 years.

Based on 20 years of global data and nearly 90 years of US data, the energy sector has never been cheaper on price - to - book multiples than it was at the end of 2015.1 The skeptics» response to these compelling headline valuations tends to be suspicion of book values, which indeed are likely overstated in some instances and vulnerable to further impairment.

Because of that, our expectation is that seven years from now AIG will have fewer shares outstanding than it has today, and book value per - share will be higher than the numbers in the prior paragraph.

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Finally, looking at valuation, European banks traded at a material discount to tangible book value, one standard deviation3 below their historic forward price - earnings multiple, and near a 20 - year low relative to global banking peers as the year came to a close.4 We are also finding select financial sector values in Asia, in both mature, under - earning banking markets like South Korea and Singapore, as well as underpenetrated, growth - oriented markets like China (particularly in insurance) and India (particularly in banking).

Over the past 5 years, as the market has been strenuously overvalued, the compound annual gain in Berkshire Hathaway's book value has been just 5.97 %.

These graphs show the change in book - to - market (graph A) and earnings - to - price (Graph B) for the highest value stocks from one year to the next.

Over the past 39 years, Berkshire's book value versus the S&P 500 has only had a beta of 0.48 (so that a 10 % move in the S&P 500 has only induced about a 4.8 % move in Berkshire's value).

I do not forecast numbers years or even months in advance at all and only value and analyze what I see in the company now so you will not see any DCF valuations in this book.

On that basis alone, AIG stock would be positioned to more than double over seven years just by returning to book value.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

e.g. http://www.faithfutures.org/JDB/jdb203.html and Professor Gerd Ludemann's analysis in his book, Jesus After 2000 Years, p. 99 «The historic value is nil.»

You are very weak - minded to really take at face value a 2000 year old book filled with 3000 year old stories, when there isn't one iota of proof that ANY «god» at all was behind those writings.

In his elder years, famous as a poet, he wrote, «I set a higher value on my name as appended to the Anti-Slavery Declaration of 1833 than on the title page of any book.»

Bell Potter analyst Jonathan Snape said Allied Mills had provided little earnings growth in recent years and the sale above its $ 178 million book value was a good outcome for GrainCorp.

«Allied Mills has demonstrated limited earnings growth in recent years and exiting above book value ($ 178m) is a good outcome, the transaction also assists in reducing gearing, with FY17e net debt / EBITDA estimated to fall from 2.5 x to 2.1 x,» the analysts said.

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The likely explanation for this is that both books and bettors are making decisions based on last season's results and expectations for the current year — thus creating value on the pooch.

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