Multiples Quotes

Earnings will recover and valuation multiples, which got crushed, will get back to where they were at the beginning of the year. - Ed Yardeni

Both Ford and Volvo have looked at injury and fatality rates in rollovers involving vehicles that meet the federal standard to vehicles that have roof strengths that are multiples of the federal standard, and there isn't a difference. - Kathleen Vokes

B shares have been traded at lower multiples of earnings for years because of their lower liquidity. - Li Yongsen

At some point corporate profits are going to slow down, but the environment right now is very, very good... You have inflation that is very tame, you have interest rates -- even though they've gone up a little bit and might even go up a little bit more -- that are still fairly low, and you have corporate earnings that are coming in nicely, and even if they slow down, multiples aren't way out of line. - David Katz

At present, the Social Security trustees estimate that the unfunded liability over the indefinite future to be $10.4 trillion... The shortfall in Medicare is calculated at several multiples of the one in Social Security. - Alan Greenspan

AIG trades at a market multiple, and it is indeed the best insurance company in the world, in my opinion. But financial stocks rarely, if ever, trade at market multiples. - Vince Farrell

Add in the fact that these five negative events started when large-cap growth was at historical highs put that together with the valuations, and you can start to explain why it's done so poorly. Multiples have compressed, growth is hard to come by, and people have been averse to risk. When will large cap growth start to work? I think the answer is when we stop having a major negative event every year. - Joe Milano

A lot of the tech companies that have done quite well and had higher multiples were ready to pullback. - John Thompson