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...He added: “If you’re growing at the pace that we are, then the P&L does manifest itself in cash requirements.” Sales at Interpath’s advisory business climbed to £26.9mn, up from £2.8mn a year earlier....
...S&P 500 dividend yields went as high as 9.2 per cent in the first quarter of 1938, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. Even IPOs paid them, as I read to my surprise in Peris’s book....
...The S&P 489 has a weighted average P/E of 24, cheaper than the whole index, but not by much....
...This is roughly comparable to average default rates observed in companies that receive a B credit rating from S&P (3.4 per cent) and a B3 from Moody’s (4 per cent)....
...Triple-B [the lowest rung of IG] spreads are at about 120bp, whereas double-B high-yield is at 200bp. So you pick up 80bp from going from triple-B to double-B....
...Stocks with low P/E ratios relative to their expected growth rates are rare....
...The S&P 500 index rose 24.2 per cent in 2023 in comparison....
...) big enough to make a meaningful impact on Berkshire’s earnings, (b) possible to reliably value, (c) have trustworthy and competent management, and (d) are available at a reasonable price....
...TCI made $12.9bn for investors and ended last year up 33 per cent, ahead of the S&P 500 index’s 24 per cent rise....
...Anyway, back to the S&P report. They reckon that debt maturities of firms rated single-B or lower will be around $310bn in 2025, rising to $400bn in 2026....
...These have picked up markedly in recent years, from a low of about 400,000 b/d in the pandemic year of 2020 to about 1.4mn b/d recently, according to Richard Bronze at Energy Aspects....
...He worked there from October 2018, and headed the firm’s S&P 500 options desk until his move to Millennium in February. Spottiswood worked for Jane Street from August 2020 to February....
...The country’s rating was previously double-B-plus, signifying speculative or junk status....
...In a Monday update, the rating agency moved Ford up to triple-B minus from double-B plus....
...It’s no coincidence that the S&P 500 is also having a stellar run....
...Bezos remains Amazon’s largest shareholder, with a stake of about 9 per cent even after the recent sales, data from S&P Capital IQ indicates....
...We’re assuming (b) ended up winning there....
...However, the maker of Oral-B toothpaste and Tide detergent trimmed the low end of its sales growth guidance due to the strong US dollar....
...Digging through the data of S&P Global offers surprising findings. Sub-Saharan African sovereigns rated in the B category between 2010 and 2023 defaulted in 22 per cent of all cases within five years....
...S&P 500 and options tied to the Vix....
...S&P Dow Jones Indices, September 21, 2023: Look, the Morningstar report that Institutional Investor cites is as legit as the SPIVA scorecard from S&P DJI....
...However, on November 1, S&P Dow Jones Indices stripped Nigeria from the S&P Select Frontier index that the ETF tracks at a “zero-price”....
...Argus subsequently grew by acquiring other companies and counts Platts, part of credit rating company S&P, among its competitors....
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