Regardless of 2020’s election results, this firm’s prospects for continued long-term profit growth are much brighter than the stock’s valuation implies.
While this company has wasted shareholder capital in the past, new management seems committed to capital discipline, cost-cutting, and maximizing cash flows.
Last week, analysts parsed 364 10-K filings and collected 39,507 data points. In total, they made 8,004 forensic accounting adjustments with a dollar value of $5 trillion.
Corporate America has the resources to deploy a large amount of capital and invest in new technologies and innovations that can drive growth. Instead, they just keep spending more and more money on buybacks.
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The Large Cap Growth style ranks fourth out of the 12 fund styles as detailed in our 3Q15 Style Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets our Neutral rating.
At the beginning of the third quarter of 2014, only the Large Cap Blend style earns an Attractive rating. My style ratings are based on the aggregation of my fund ratings for every ETF and mutual fund in each style.
USM's profits, margins, and return on invested capital are all in decline, and its revenues have been stagnant for a number of years. In addition, reported earnings per share conceal the company’s growing profit losses.
The potential utility of XBRL as a tool for regulators to fight fraud and investors to better analyze companies makes its numerous flaws that much more of a shame. I can only hope that the SEC realizes the value of XBRL and makes a commitment to ensuring the accuracy and validity of XBRL data.
The Large Cap Growth style ranks fourth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my Style Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 22 ETFs and 657 mutual funds in the Large Cap Growth style as of October 17, 2013. Prior reports on the best & worst ETFs and mutual funds in every sector and style are here.
Companies with underfunded pensions will likely need to divert a greater amount of future cash flows away from shareholders to make up the funding gap. An accurate analysis of shareholder value should include the net funded status of pensions.