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Showing posts with label bad growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad growth. Show all posts
Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Creating new S-curves - developing new engines of growth - ideally before the current cycle of growth reaches maturity.

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Every business goes through the S-curve cycle of growth:  infancy (low growth),  expansion (rapid growth) and  maturity (slow growth). No ma...
Friday, 30 December 2022

Many factors can derail any business forecast.

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Forecasting future growth is considerably imprecise Forecasting sales or profits many years into the future is considerably more imprecise...
Wednesday, 18 September 2019

The company's growth plans: Your approach as an investor.

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Good growth is exciting for any company that you own. Growth can be through organic growth or through mergers and acquisitions. However...
Friday, 6 September 2019

Growth is often seen as the best measure of corporate success.

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Growth is often seen as the best measure of corporate success. A company growing at a rate of 15% per year is doubling in size ever...
Tuesday, 11 April 2017

The distinction between Profit and Cash. A business can be profitable but short of cash.

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Cash is completely different from profit, a fact that is not always properly appreciated. It is possible, and indeed quite common, for a ...
Thursday, 22 October 2015

Growing versus Non-growing company. Value Investing versus Growth Investing.

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A growing company versus a non-growing company Given the choice, you should choose to invest in a company that is growing its revenues, earn...
Thursday, 9 October 2014

Look at growth from the perspective of investment required to support the growth. Profitable Growth Occurs Only Within a Franchise.

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Summary  Now to summarize about growth: growth at a competitive disadvantage destroys value, growth on a level playing field neither...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Growth or the lack of it, is integral to a valuation exercise

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The value of a business, a share of stock or any other productive asset is the present value of its future cash flows. However, value is ...
Thursday, 7 February 2013

Is Growth Always A Good Thing?

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Rapid growth in revenue and earnings may be top priorities in corporate boardrooms, but these priorities are not always best for shareholder...
Thursday, 11 October 2012

Growth can either ADD or DETRACT from an investment's value/

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Growth in sales, earnings, and assets can either add or detract from an investment's value. Growth can add to the value when the re...
Sunday, 1 July 2012

Dividends and Total Returns

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During the bull market, the pursuit of rapidly growing businesses obscured the real nature of equity returns. But growth isn't all t...
Friday, 23 March 2012

Warren Buffett's approach to Growth. Growth on its own is not a valuable thing as a rule.

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Benjamin Graham's approach. Look first at Assets. Then look at Earnings Power - making sure that they are protected by the assets. ...
Saturday, 10 March 2012

A rapidly growing company presents special problems in valuation.

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A rapidly growing company presents special problems in valuation. John Burr Williams (1938:560) succinctly writes "They had high hopes...

Is faith in speculation about future earnings more, or less, reasonable than faith in appraisal of today's value?

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Reliance on the earnings estimates of experts can range from blind faith at one end of the spectrum to reasoned faith at the other end.. ...
Sunday, 26 February 2012

Earnings Growth: Good Growth and Bad Growth

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GROWTH FIGURES FOR ANHEUSER-BUSCH Take Anheuser-Busch. Ten-year figures to 2002, using the Value Line summaries, show the following: Year ...

WHAT WARREN BUFFETT LOOKS FOR IN COMPANY GROWTH

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An investor likes to see a company grow because, if profits grow, so do returns to the investor. The important thing for the investor, howe...
Saturday, 25 February 2012

What Warren Buffett Looks for in Company Growth

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WHAT WARREN BUFFETT LOOKS FOR IN COMPANY GROWTH An investor likes to see a company grow because, if profits grow, so do returns to the inve...
Monday, 6 February 2012

Have an opinion on future growth - How can the company increase its earnings?

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It is only rational to have an opinion on future growth.  Otherwise, how could you ever choose a stock? When forming that opinion, back u...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Avoiding "BAD" Growth

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Investing in growth companies would be a lot easier if all business growth were created equal, but, unfortunately, it is not. Investors mu...
Friday, 30 December 2011

Speculative-Growth Stocks - What's the Growth Trend?

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Rapid sales growth won't do us any good if it can't be sustained. We want staying powe r, not sales growth of 50% one year and s...