If the company paid all its earnings in dividends, it would take you 10 years to get paid back in earnings.
Some options traders appear to be positioning for shares in Krispy Kreme to pull back after earnings.
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In normal circumstances, a buy-back boosts earnings per share, making it easier for the company to meet market estimates and for its executives to profit from their stock options.
Corporations are no longer able to sit back and take profit without re-investing some of those earnings back into the public good.
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If the laborers had family in China their role was to send earnings back to support them.
But they also send billions of their earnings back north to bank accounts in the US for safekeeping.
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As her turnover was just over the VAT threshold, she said was now seriously thinking of cutting back on her earnings.
Their research shows that a female entrepreneur will reinvest an average of 90% of her earnings back into her family and business, compared with just 30% of men.
This Canadian utility company supplies natural gas and electricity to customers in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. It reorganized several years back, but earnings continued to grow.
It's really discouraging that, despite a law requiring private television networks to reinvest 1.5 percent of their earnings back into the local film industry, this is hardly ever executed.
Their willingness to pour so much of their earnings back into the business also conflicts with basic corporate theory, which is that insiders are more concerned about diversifying their holdings.
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Alongside lesser numbers of Italians, Yugoslavs and others, the Turks mined coal, forged steel and manned factories, transferring their earnings back to the home country they assumed they would return to.
"They are fantastic at making sure that when they have a hit show, they can prolong its life and increase its audience and therefore increase the earnings back to them, " Matthews says.
It calculates an intrinsic value by discounting a stream of future earnings back to the present, using a discount rate that is a function of both Aaa bond yields and the creditworthiness of the target company.
One could take comfort from the long perspective that the U.S. will get back to trend GDP growth of 3.3% and that earnings will go back to trend, as I illustrated in a previous chart.
We discounted the earnings improvements back to 1994, using a rate keyed to money market yields.
We discounted the earnings improvements back to 1992, using a rate keyed to money market yields.
Since then, it has climbed steadily higher on the back of rising corporate earnings by U.S. companies.
Currency concerns even prompted the firm to pare back its revenue and earnings per share estimates for software maker Oracle.
They studied what happened to earnings plowed back rather than paid out and found that companies did a miserable job of investing them.
After a steady trek upward, the stock jumped 18.6% last Friday on the back of a strong earnings report in which the company projected higher than expected revenue and net income.
But to get the trade-off between 10-year government bond, not in America, but on a global basis, and the inverse of the PE or the earnings yield back to historical norms, long-term interest rates would have to fully double from here globally.
In a recent interview, Horne told Forbes it would be prudent for investors to be a little more cautious on some of the home builders he covers, given that the rally has put some earnings multiples back within 15% of their prior peaks.
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Earnings were plowed back into opening more shop-n-shops at other department stores like Hyundai and Samsung.
But then I look back at the last two earnings reporting seasons, and there is cause for concern.
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Our upside case portrays better earnings on the back of improvements in both pricing and utilization for specific fleets.
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As a currency weakens, a country's exporters enjoy a profit boost when earnings are repatriated back to the home country.
Downstream earnings have snapped back so far that I prefer pure play oil producers like Apache with no downstream cyclical vulnerability.
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