They have been a couple for three times as long, but discreetly.
At 9 times my estimate for 2009 earnings and 4 times cash flow, it's cheap enough for a big, long run.
Generally, though, the main thing wrong with these companies is that they are out of favor with investors who are quite happy to pay 20 times earnings, and 50 times the cash dividend (2% yield) for a company whose long-term prospects may not be materially different than a company trading at 10 times earnings and 20 times the dividend (5% yield).
It's a real coin flip as to what direction this goes for a paper like the Los Angeles Times, long one of the bellwethers of print journalism.
Other experiments have run for long periods of times without so much as a hint of the stuff.
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It was the first earnings call for Thompson, who joined the Times last fall after a long career at the BBC.
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In the 1990s, while working for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, I covered a long-running dispute between shrimpers and federal regulators.
But for Airbus it will have been a long, bumpy and, at times, perilous ride.
It has been a long and, at times, bumpy road for the couple to the altar.
Yesterday, Matt Bai wrote a long and very good profile on Warner for The New York Times Magazine.
Selling for a ratio of six times enterprise value (market cap plus long-term debt) to EBITDA cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), Cemex looks cheap.
He said the delays are due to high voter turnout, a large number of contested seats and long travel times for polling officers.
Morocco has bid three previous times for the World Cup while South Africa, a long-time favourite to get the 2006 edition, was beaten by Germany by one vote after a sole executive committee member decided to abstain.
LUKOY, which has grown earnings per share at a 10.2% rate over the long term (I use an average of the three-, four-, and five-year EPS growth rates to determine a long-term rate), trades for only 4.5 times earnings, and has a 5.8% dividend yield.
Amid complaints of too sparse a selection of downloads to choose from and long load times for apps in past builds of its online application store, RIM has started pushing out BlackBerry AppWorld 3.0 on Tuesday, replacing the beta version for long-suffering BlackBerry users, who will now enjoy a revised UI and faster loading apps.
In the long term, fixed currency rates were a recipe for trouble because when economic times changed currencies, conversion rates needed to change as well to keep the economy in equilibrium.
We do show British-American Tobacco (nyse: BTI - news - people ), which sells for just 10 times expected earnings, and has a 10.4% expected long-term earnings growth rate.
And within that fairly limited range, we think that the price of oil will move up and down many times, but not make a dramatic move, at least for very long, outside that range because of the balance of supply with demand.
The Economic Times intimates that these big corporate agencies have been working on a brand for so long, they are effectively blinkered to any kernel of an idea which is outside their usual, comfort-zoned box.
After the week-long, at times draining, services of Holy Week, Rome is still up for a celebration.
For investment bankers, at least, a sign that the good times are truly back would be the long-awaited flotation of Google, an enormously popular internet search engine.
Holding a lot of long-term, illiquid assets and using very short-term markets for funding seemed fine when times were good.
The Zweig-based model also likes that Ares has been growing revenues at a 68.6% rate over the long term, and that its shares sell for just 6.0 times trailing 12-month earnings.
The host cell has no idea that its genetic code (which it generally needs to produce new, healthy cells) has been hijacked, for a long time at least, until the code has been copied and read to reproduce the virus many, many times by the host cell.
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The results are bittersweet though: Profit is eight times higher than for the second quarter but still lower than this time last year--and a long way from hitting a peak, according to analysts.
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