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rjjm94

03/02/17 6:56 AM

#91301 RE: chaosstarter #91295

Well there are 2 types of stock valuations. Either Value stocks --- based on the Price to earnings multiples --- Or growth stocks --- which are based on discounted future cash flows.

For instance why has amazon stock been at such a high pe and even a negative pe? Because the public could see the growth of the company and just because its not creating a positive earning at one point eventually it will and it will grow its earning at a pace much faster than a value stock.

A value stock is usually a company who earnings are going to be pretty consistent in the upcoming future and or have been for years --- and you try to pick ones that are cheaper relative to its peers as far as p/e, dividend discount model or whatever measure you would like to have.

Not trying to teach equities 101 here --- but its hard to compare a company that creats a weed grinder and hasa $2,000,000 revenue order on its conference call with Snap Chat who when monitizied will make somewhere 1000x that a year in profit. Its not an actual hard product they are selling ad space to advertisers who will pay millions of dollars to have billions of eyeballs on there video ad. Look at the performance of FB they do not sell anything other than ad space. Last I heard they had 1.8 BILLION people online at all time. Look at there earnings now compared to right when they went public. The numbers are incredible.

That being said GO VPOR