"I like chandeliers in unexpected places, like a kitchen pantry, or using them in multiples, " she added.
Furthermore, large cap equities have suffered a derating in multiples over the past ten years, which has negatively impacted their returns.
But when the stockmarket rallied from 2003 to 2007, it was because of profits growth rather than a 1990s-style surge in multiples.
And there are literally hundreds of examples like that in the data, often differences in multiples of five or ten or 20 or 40.
Any new electronic gadget had to be the best and newest, and he collected objects in multiples, regardless of price, from radios to construction equipment.
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Each of these four choices could show substantial variation in multiples.
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As cash continues to grow on the balance sheets of these large cap companies, you could see the pharmaceutical sector become an adored sector once again and experience a rerating in multiples.
Rising top-lines, with margin improvements, result in geometric improvement in earnings, which results in higher multiples.
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Since the charge comes in small multiples of the charge on an electron, it is easy to account for.
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The result: a quiet long-term decline, in the multiples of branded-food biggies like General Mills, ConAgra ( CAG) and Kraft ( KFT).
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As these headwinds are removed we may see an upward rerating in equity multiples as investors may be willing to pay more for future earnings.
When confronted, Miller falsely claimed that he had made a mistake in ordering many multiples of what was written in a client's order, authorities said.
Dick May, managing director of American Working Capital, a private equity firm in Los Angeles and Chicago, said the family that founded American Greetings is taking advantage of low multiples in an out-of-favor industry, as well as inexpensive debt financing to bet on its future.
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Berkshire used to sell at such multiples in years past, but not recently.
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In most cases, public markets value companies, including hotel owners, in terms of multiples of their cash flow or earnings.
The recent depression in the stock price has been the single largest factor in making these multiples move to such attractive levels.
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Jeff Henley, the CFO of Oracle, says companies showing openness and honesty to shareholders will be rewarded with higher multiples in their share prices.
The rent growth and position as a domestic owner of domestic hard assets (without European exposure) warrant above average FFO multiples in our opinion.
For example, lots of international companies coughed up for a Tokyo listing in the late 1980s, hoping to share in the euphoric multiples then applied to Japanese firms.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index is up about 17% from the July lows, but Martchev warns that "multiples in this group are extremely high" and that the stocks are very cyclical.
In fact, we later discovered the fund had lost multiples of that amount in a scheme involving a corrupt financial adviser.
Although Schramm only cut short term guidance, investors adjusted their long term models, and in turn cut the multiples they were willing to pay.
In the year to date, multiples stand at 7.6x, down from 8.2x in the first three months of 2011 and from 8.4x in 2010.
The first of our three stock screens selected companies in the Worldscope database whose prices today are at historically low multiples of earnings, cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation) and book value.
These concerns are reflected in our lowered group valuation multiples and lowered price targets.
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Some of those stocks havent regained their pre-1974 multiples, even in this long bull market.
Our valuation estimates are based on multiples of revenue in 2011, the last completed season.
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When transactions take place, similar to when individuals buy assets (homes) multiples are paid in the transaction.
The selloff in these losers have contracted multiples, but only the value investors with nerves of steel might proceed.
The lesson, at the end of the day, is this: When looking at lists of companies selling in the market at low multiples to cash flow or earnings, investors must discriminate.
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