CEO David Trainer sat down with Chuck Jaffe of Money Life to talk about our Danger Zone pick this week: Street Earnings Understated for 24% of S&P 500 in 3Q23.
This firm has a long history of profit growth, over four decades of dividend growth, and an executive compensation plan that properly incentivizes executives to create shareholder value. Add in a cheap valuation, and it’s clear why this firm is this week’s Long Idea.
Linking executive compensation to ROIC could create immediate shareholder returns and drive a long-term commitment to the lean and disciplined corporate structure that Peltz wants P&G to adopt.
Our stock pick this week provides products you probably use daily. Many traders and speculators focus on daily trading volume or even momentum points to buy and sell a stock. When a company’s earnings “disappoint,” these traders tend to overreact, dumping their shares and causing the stock price to drop.
The Consumer Staples sector ranks first out of the 10 sectors for the first quarter of 2015 and receives our Very Attractive rating. The Consumer Discretionary sector as a whole outperformed the S&P 500 in 2014, rising 15% to the S&P’s 12%
Figure 1 compares 10 companies that make common kitchen products on the basis of return on invested capital (ROIC) and price to economic book value (PEBV).