Hints and tips:
...The stock has gained nearly 40 per cent over the past 12 months, outpacing the S&P 500’s 20 per cent rise....
...Todd H Baker is a senior fellow at Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy at Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School Loan accounting in a bank should be straightforward, delivering...
...JB Hunt, which is a big old capital-intensive diesel-burning trucking company that owns its own trucks, earned 11 per cent (and that was its worst year in more than two decades; trucking is in a slump)....
...That is significantly higher than the $109mn analysts had been predicting, according to data from S&P Capital IQ. Free cash flow is defined as cash flow from operations minus capital expenditures....
...Referring to, say, Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted P/E ratio has been liable to get a person made fun of online....
...Delysium / KUROSEMI INC. ??? Orderly ??? Sui Token Warrant ???...
...The potential for a squeeze in corporate profitability is starting to loom larger for the investors and analysts who track USA Inc. It’s not hard to see why....
...In the land of the free (underwritten by VCs), the S&P 500 dropped 1.7 per cent also, with mega cap tech, small caps and cyclicals bearing the most pain. Why?...
...The three joined from the S&P 400 benchmark of midsized companies and will switch places with tax software group H&R Block, Coty, a beauty company, and Kohls, a department store, which are dropping to the...
...Ostwald at ADM Investor Services says the latest corporate bond buying initiative from the Fed sends a worrying message “that financial markets are not functioning, and that it sees the need to bailout USA Inc...
...Key for Centrica is maintaining its Baa2/BBB credit ratings with Moody’s/S&P, which we think is possible....
...That’s around 62 times forward revenue, according to data from S&P Capital IQ....
...Shoppers have defected to trendier rivals such as H&M and Zara. The rise of ecommerce has added to the pressure....
...US equity valuations have reached more sensible levels, with the S&P on a forward price/earnings ratio of about 15 times, close to the mean for the past decade....
...Equities In New York, the S&P 500 ended 0.4 per cent higher at 2,809, its best finish since early February, having fallen 0.3 per cent in early trade....
...H & R Block, meanwhile, was the biggest decliner on the benchmark index, tumbling nearly 19 per cent to $24.04 after issuing disappointing margin guidance....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 17. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...S&P Dow Jones Indices no longer allows companies with multiple share classes to join various indices including the S&P 500, the index of large US companies....
...The information technology sector of the S&P 500 has led US stock market gains this year and last, which left it vulnerable to profit-taking after the Facebook fallout....
...Japan Tobacco, which makes Winston and Camel cigarettes, also suffered from the failure of P&H, which was responsible for the distribution of around a quarter of JTI’s cigarettes in the UK....
...But since then, the S&P 500 has overtaken it (see chart above)....
...In the past five years, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook, four of the largest companies in the S&P 500, have generated a cool $293bn in free cash flow, according to Bloomberg....
...They now pay effective tax rates of more than 30 per cent versus more than 25 per cent for the broader S&P 500 index, he estimated....
...Futures tip a mild start for western markets with the FTSE 100 set to rise 0.2 per cent and the S&P 500 expected to open flat....
...The S&P 500 looked to extend its “perfect week” after the benchmark index, which closed at a record high each day last week for the first time in nearly 20 years, edged up again on Monday The S&P 500 rose...
International Edition