It sells for 11 times my estimate of 2011 earnings and two times book value.
The way the corporations see it, currency movements have little to do with earnings performance overseas.
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Change the accounting rules drastically and most corporate earnings as we now know them could disappear.
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But that means adding to bad debt reserves or posting a special loss, hurting earnings.
Normally, a ratio of bond yield to earnings yield of 1.0 is considered cheap.
Last year it tried unsuccessfully to sell its mortgage division to reduce earnings volatility.
Quick to adjust, the company refreshed inventory and began an earnings recovery later in the year.
However, earnings from continuing operations have exceeded consensus estimates in the past four quarters.
After all, you are paying 40% tax on the earnings on this taxable account all along.
He is insured for damage to his property, but not for his loss of earnings.
In October 2002, Bristol-Myers said it would restate earnings as a result of the glut.
There is little visibility right now about exactly what those earnings will look like.
Shares of Goldman Sachs opened 2.4% lower as investors sorted through the earnings report.
By the metric of inflation-adjusted earnings, stocks got way out of line a few years ago.
The red line shows what stocks would have been worth at a constant 16 times earnings.
Simply nowhere in the mass media have I seen it reported how strong third-quarter earnings were.
Excluding financials, 67% of companies reported earnings better than the year before, and 68% exceeded expectations.
My quest for small-cap growth stocks often turns to companies reporting big earnings surprises.
Shares trade for 19 times my 45-cent estimate for earnings over the next 12 months.
The stocks of companies reporting earnings surprises often jump up on the day of the report.
Coca-Cola , Intel and JPMorgan Chase all announced quarterly earnings that topped Street predictions.
It sells at 14 times my 2011 earnings estimate and has a 3.2% dividend yield.
Also Wednesday, ladies clothing retailer Chico FAS more than doubled its first quarter earnings versus last year.
Each is expected to have positive earnings growth for the year and yields of at least 4.9%.
Earnings per share are expected to jump from 65 cents this year to 90 cents next year.
Bank of America and Citigroup report third quarter earnings on Monday and Goldman Sachs reports on Tuesday.
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By early 2001 Global was stoking its earnings by resorting to swaps of capacity with the same carrier.
That just might deliver the kind of double-digit earnings growth that a consumer brands executive is accustomed to.
Now she opts for Unisys shares, at just 0.5 times sales and 9 times her 2002 earnings estimate.
Merrill Lynch figured it was priced at 16 times operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
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