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Showing posts with label earnings growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label earnings growth. Show all posts
Sunday 12 January 2020

Conventional Valuation Yardsticks: Earnings and Earnings Growth

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Earnings and Earnings Growth Earnings per share has historically been the valuation yardstick most commonly used by investors. Unfortun...
Thursday 20 July 2017

Do you always avoid all companies with large amounts of debt?

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In an ideal world, you will select to invest in companies that produce consistently high returns and have low levels of debt . This is t...
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...
Tuesday 17 December 2013

Buffett investment thought process

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Answering the following questions will guide you through the Buffett investment thought process. QUALITY AND MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS 1.  Doe...
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Saturday 22 December 2012

Be conservative in your estimates for future growth.

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Never estimate future earnings growth: to exceed the growth of sales to exceed 20 percent to exceed its historical growth rate to exce...
Friday 21 December 2012

Confine your study to companies with good sales or earnings growth.

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Don't bother to continue with a stock study if sales or earnings growth is inadequate. Sales growth is inadequate if it is below the g...
Thursday 8 November 2012

How To Evaluate The Quality Of EPS and find out what it's telling you about a stock.

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Exam ining Earnings Quality Overview   The evaluation of earnings per share should be a relatively straightforward process, but than...
Wednesday 17 October 2012

How Buffett determined the combined value of Capital Cities and American Broadcasting

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Murphy was named president of Capital Cities in 1964.   Murphy agreed to sell Buffett 3 million shares of Capital Cities/ABC for $172....
Sunday 17 June 2012

What Is a Quality Growth Company? Just What Do We Mean by Growth?

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What Is a Quality Growth Company? To invest only in high quality growth companies, you will have to prospect for good candidates and the...
Saturday 10 March 2012

Statements about future earnings growth rates are opinions, not facts.

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There are three main types of estimates of the future. In order of increasing sophistication, they can be referred to as the naive, the gul...
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 ...

PAST GROWTH AS A PREDICTABILITY FACTOR

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Although a consistent record of increases in earnings per share is not of itself an absolute predictor of either further increases, or t...

COMPOUNDING EFFECT OF GROWTH

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Regular growth in earnings per share can have a compound effect if all , or substantially all , of the profits are retained .   A comp...

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

One simple criterion to base stock purchases - FOCUS ON EARNINGS

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Toward the end of his life, Benjamin Graham spent many hours looking for one simple criterion on which to base stock purchases.  His focus t...

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...
Sunday 5 February 2012

How Value Investor identifies Earnings, Sales and Future Growth

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The real goal of the value investor is to identify companies with solid financial base that are growing at a faster rate (in terms of sale...

Divine Dividends

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Dividends represent nothing more than the investor's share of earnings that will be received immediately (rather than through reinvestme...