By mid-2011 it was clear that the current earnings stream the company was producing was not sustainable.
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Unlike prior quarters, current earnings data are mixed, and growth has clearly decelerated.
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Nobody should own MMR for its current production or its current earnings stream.
For foreign investors, the stock sells at around seven times current earnings and at a 30% premium to locally-traded stock.
Legacy assets are things like illiquid real estate, rare artwork or family business interests that may not provide current earnings.
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For example, based on current earnings expectations for this fiscal year CREE is trading for nearly 50x cash earnings per share.
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Hence, managers are likely to be tempted to be short-termist, by inflating current earnings, and letting the distant future look after itself.
It goes against logic that a company is driven by current earnings and not a sustainable program of reinvention, redevelopment and research.
My model calls for companies to have the ability to pay off their debt within five years, based on their current earnings.
In essence, municipalities borrow current earnings of public employees in exchange for some of the most favorable retirement plans in the world.
They want the firms to give 90% of it to policyholders, the same ratio that applies to current earnings of with-profits funds.
It, too, was reporting as current earnings in the current quarter, income it was actually going to earn over the next twenty years.
Though it trades at seven times current earnings, a quarter of its 1996 price high, Nomura's Potter is wary of the company's high debt levels.
Similarly, whatever the level of current earnings it is opinions about future earnings that are going to determine the valuation, the capitalisation, of those current earnings.
But even people earning below the ceiling are likely to benefit, especially if their current earnings are relatively high and grow relatively rapidly in the future.
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That represents a decline from a year ago, which is hardly uncommon in the current earnings cycle as a sluggish global economy has made top-line growth challenging.
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You're only being asked to pay eight times current earnings.
Back in March of 2000, when the indexes were at all-time highs, the valuations of many top companies were inflated, going for 40- or 50-times current earnings or more.
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We noted that these gains seemed at odds with the current earnings pressure and sober guidance for retailers and manufacturers with exposure to the housing and home improvement sectors.
So, a stock with low, medium or even high current earnings, but one which is expected to have higher future earnings, will be trading at a high valuation of those current earnings.
Mr Ritter reckons that current earnings yields are the best guide but earnings need to be massaged over ten years or so to remove the distorting effects of specific moments of the business cycle.
The company also provided current quarter earnings and revenue projections that were below current forecasts.
We believe that the persisting weakness in PC market will impact the current quarter earnings as well.
If the turnaround in Las Vegas continues and Macau stays hot, future profits will justify the current high earnings multiple.
Dell is looking a bit pricey at 25.6 times current year earnings, although the PEG ratio of 1.08 suggests shares might still be on the cheap side.
The consensus earnings per share estimate has moved up from 84 cents a share to the current expectation of earnings of 88 cents a share.
The consensus earnings per share estimate has moved up from 97 cents a share to the current expectation of earnings of 99 cents a share.
The consensus earnings per share estimate has moved up from 40 cents a share to the current expectation of earnings of 43 cents a share.
The consensus earnings per share estimate has moved up from 36 cents a share to the current expectation of earnings of 47 cents a share.
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