He expects a second round of price declines: a further 20% fall would bring prices back to their long-run average against earnings.

他预言会出现第二轮的价格下跌：20%的进一步下跌将使价格对收入的比率回归至长期平均水平。

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Others took stock in the business, with an agreement that their child would use future earnings to buy it back.

还有人在企业中入股，同时签订协议规定他们的孩子会用未来的收益回购股份。

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US equities are trading at 16 times historic earnings, their average going back to 1920.

美国股票目前的历史市盈率为16倍，平均水平回到了1920年。

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So they want to payout something like 40% of their earnings as dividends and plow the rest back into investing inside the company.

如果他们将收入的40%作为股利,然后在内部把剩余部分拿回来用作投资

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Earnings are something that accountants have generated and they've been doing it all the way back to 1871-- it's a venerable concept; it's how much money the company made this year, if it's annual earnings.

收益是会计们算出来的,从1871年来一直如此,他们值得尊敬,年收益指的是公司这一年赚到的钱

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If the company paid all its earnings in dividends, it would take you 10 years to get paid back in earnings.

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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.

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