Consolidated equity earnings are expected to be down 30%, versus original guidance of down 5%.
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Dow Corning's equity earnings were down 46% on a year-over-year basis, driven by severe weakness in the solar polysilicon market.
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Corning expects equity earnings to be down about 5% sequentially.
He says that the overall volume decline from the Samsung ventures, as well as lower earnings at Dow Corning, will result in a 35% sequential drop in overall equity earnings.
The measurements varied widely, ranging from sales to return on equity to earnings per share.
Now companies that finance themselves through equity and retained earnings, including giants like Apple and Google, will have the edge as interest rates rise.
The acceleration in buyouts and buybacks will keep creating a booming world stock market by shrinking the supply of equity while boosting earnings per share.
Another way in which regulators have tried to keep banks' heads above water is to force them to match a proportion of their risky assets (ie, loans) with capital, in the form of equity or retained earnings.
Over the past five years it has racked up a 28% average return on equity along with earnings-per-share growth of 64% a year -- enough to vault it to the number one spot on the list of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies in America (Nov. 2, 1998).
According to OFII, the foreign investment estimates include equity capital, reinvested earnings and inter-company debt (U.S. subsidiaries borrowing from foreign parent companies).
We think the U.S. slowdown and global credit market disruptions will pressure earnings, equity prices, commodities and foreign growth more than is reflected in the current consensus.
The Law Society stresses paper profits are not the same as actual earnings because equity partners in law firms are not paid a salary and the amounts quoted are often used to fund other parts of the business.
Over the past five years it has racked up a 28% average return on equity, along with earnings-per-share growth of 64% a year -- enough to vault it onto the list of Forbes Global's 300 Best Small Companies (Nov. 2, 1998).
Earnings (excluding equity compensation and other one time items) were 56 cents per share in the reported quarter.
It tells investors how expensive or inexpensive the stock of a company or an equity index is compared to earnings.
We forecast earnings for the equity division by looking at the assets deployed for trading and an estimated yield on these businesses.
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Though it slightly underperforms its domestic peer group in return on assets and return on equity, Popular's earnings per share are growing faster (15.3% vs. 12.7% compound annual growth over the last five years).
To the extent that the company issues debt to buy equity, that might indeed boost earnings per share.
In 2000 and 2001, reinvested earnings actually fell and equity capital accounted for as much as 84% of total foreign investment, according to OFII's analysis.
The risk is that this regulatory onslaught, while well-intentioned, will lead to permanently higher funding costs, crushing margins, reducing earnings and returns on equity and increasing pressure on banks to shrink their balance sheets a real problem given banks finance 80% of the European economy.
Lawrence Creatura, portfolio manager at Federated Investors, says that strong third-quarter corporate earnings have contributed to higher equity prices since the summer, aided by the anticipation of quantitative easing.
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Although the economy is picking up, the equity market is going to be driven by earnings growth and corporate restructuring, which I don't see happening.
Thus, these small equity cushions, and low pre-provision earnings suggest they would be unable to absorb these losses out of earnings in a stress situation.
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Splendidly managed by Maurice (Hank) Greenberg, aig is a money machine that regularly earns 15% on its shareholders equity and excels by all other measures of earnings muscle.
In order to do so, WisdomTree selects and weights 300 stocks in each portfolio that meet stringent long-term earnings growth expectations like return on equity and return on assets in addition to projected payout growth.
And interest costs would be roughly 1x operating earnings, which would guarantee a mammoth equity raising.
But Scott Wren, senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors, believes softer earnings won't pose much of a hurdle.
As a potential 13 percent return on equity company, it should sell at 12 times earnings in a couple of years.
Goldman Sachs may operate cautiously as the fiscal cliff hangs over fourth quarter earnings, notes Michael Wong, an equity analyst with Morningstar.
Equity returns before valuation adjustments are a function of earnings growth (which have their root in GDP growth) and dividend yield including stock buybacks.
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