Sentence examples for prospective earnings from inspiring English sources

Analysts proclaim that the market is cheap relative to prospective earnings, and advise that investors should pile into shares.

Corporate profits have rebounded strongly and stockmarkets are fairly valued on the basis of prospective earnings forecasts.

Critical Path announced last month that it had mis-stated its prospective earnings drastically, and ousted two top executives, leaving Mr Hayden in charge.

The average price-to-earnings ratio of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock isdex is 16, based on prospective earnings, higher than the long-term average of 14.

Remember that ten years ago, investors used a rule of thumb whereby the prospective earnings yield and the bond yield should be around the same level.

The optimists argue that shares are not expensive relative to either trailing or prospective earnings and are very cheap relative to government bonds.

The sum which would restore the Buyer to the position it would have been in, had the Seller performed, would therefore be the prospective net earnings of the "Refiners" while they were used (together with any value they might have as scrap after they were discarded), less their price — $25,500 — together with $3,000, the cost of installing them.

And Asian shares still look cheap: using prospective 2005 earnings, CSFB's Stewart Paterson puts their price-earnings ratio at 12, against a consensus of 16 for Japan and America and 15 for Europe.Although Asia may not offer investors supercharged earnings growth, it can certainly provide income.

So far, the public investors haven't shared in Mindel's success: Stock they bought at $11 on the IPO recently sold at around $10, 19 times prospective 1998 earnings.

But at 5 times prospective 2010 earnings, 40% of book value, 2 times cash flow and 10% of annual revenue, Magma makes sense even for someone with low expectations for the sector.

High profit margins could be maintained in a world of monopolies but globalisation, the same factor cited by profit bulls, erodes monopolies; if Chinese competition is depressing wages, it is also affecting the prices charged by western manufacturers.Stockmarket bulls prefer to look at the prospective price-earnings ratio, based on next year's profits.