Our investments in technology companies are more a result of valuation than strong future growth prospects.
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Stack looks at historical measures of valuation: price-to-book ratios, price-to-dividend ratios and price-to-earnings ratios.
It increasingly seems unlikely Mason will ever see that kind of valuation for Groupon again.
We thought that using earnings and conservatively assuming no multiple expansion was the best course of valuation.
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And when a company is trading at this kind of valuation, there is absolutely no margin for error.
After working on the quant screens, students put the stocks through a variety of valuation methods and models.
As reflected in figure 11.2, the benefits were directly and inversely related to the starting level of valuation.
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As a measure of valuation, Segarra uses the operating earnings yield (the inverse of the price-operating earnings ratio).
But does protection, where it exists, provide more tangible benefits to specific shareholders in the form of valuation?
Cheaper but less experienced appraisers are more prevalent, as are methods of valuation that don't require appraisers at all.
Secular bull markets, typically, start from levels of valuation that are extremely low and associated with despair, not blind-optimism.
The entire venture capital industry generally uses a quick and dirty form of valuation called pre- and post-money valuation.
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The main temptation has been to cash out at the sort of valuation multiples enjoyed by other firms that have gone public.
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To establish a policy's market value we first calculate its asset share, which tracks money into and out of the policy to the date of valuation.
So even if we debunk or downsize much of what Alfred Little says, we now have a separate issue to evaluate, which is that of valuation.
Ballooning losses were easily explained away by the investment bankers as the new "EBE (earnings before expenses) Model" of valuation, which buy-side analysts on the road show swallowed like ice cream.
But in England, the first bank to fall over was Northern Rock, brought low firstly, by offering mortgages on too generous terms (125% of valuation and so on) and by their funding model.
"We're still a long way from the having the kind of valuation that a company our size should fetch, " sighs Serge Tchuruk (pronounced "cha-RUK"), Alcatel's CEO, over a four-course lunch at its tastefully modern headquarters just off the Champs-lyses.
Family offices are starting to employ art lawyers and art consultants, making their affluent clients more aware of the importance of valuation and insurance, but anyone who has art or collectibles worth more than a few thousand dollars needs to think about a specific policy floater to cover those valuables, because above that level, items are rarely covered on regular home contents insurance.
This is also a period of peak valuation of the yen, an unusual accompaniment to decline.
It contributes approximately 23% of our valuation of the company.
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Bernstein wrote in a note to investors that he models only a 30% chance of approval but still sees Wyeth as worth buying because of the valuation of the stock.
In the hands of a fraudster, such clients may be given false translations of documents that serve to hide the true nature of their investments or of the valuation of their portfolio.
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The semiconductor and equipment industry normally trades at a premium to the market, when measured in terms of the relative valuation of risk-adjusted EVA performance.
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Today's setting of moderate valuation for most sectors of the market combined with low financing costs makes the proposition even more compelling than in the '80s.
Although there were some bells and whistles associated with those shares, as mentioned above, this should give you some idea of the current valuation of the company.
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By going to the public markets ahead of Facebook, the professional networking site can take advantage of the implied valuation of its larger peer without getting directly sized up by investors.
Worth tens of billions of dollars just a year or so ago, much of that valuation was in anticipation of the huge wealth they would generate once fully operational, which was expected to begin to take place sometime last year.
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