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How to use the word multiples in a Sentence?

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The one area that has surprised and continues to surprise is Europe. We’ve U.S. and China where data looks like they’re slowing a little bit, next year, we’re looking at high single-digit EPS growth in Europe and for a market that is trading at mid-teen multiples, we think that is attractive.

Adam Mac Nulty

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

To justify its high enterprise value to sales multiples, Bukalapak will need to maintain annual revenue growth at around 50% over the next five years, which seems like a rather difficult target.

Oshadhi Kumarasiri

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

They can divest blocks of annuities at pretty good multiples, in the 8-12 range, and often buy back stock at half those multiples.

Credit Suisse

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think there's too much money and multiples have gotten out of whack.

Aileen Lee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You can't just throw a dart because some of these typical safe-havens are trading at much higher market multiples than they typically do, it's hard for me to buy a utility company when I could buy a company like Home Depot.

Gary Bradshaw

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Europeans will give up cars and coffee before their vacations. We’re talking about an acceleration outlook, which usually works well for stocks, especially those like Priceline that began the year with trough multiples. RBC Capital Markets analyst

Mark Mahaney

added by Authors
4 years ago

There are many quality companies that for whatever reason people are just scared of, people are running to things that have no problems in them and paying a lot, and we'd rather get things with manageable problems at much lower multiples.

Randy Gwirtzman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I saw a lot of comments from people who believe every flat head can be remedied by tummy time, and that's simply not true, especially for preemies and multiples.

Ashley Jimenez

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I’ve had a lot of experience with sex toys — lots, i don’t think I used toys with a partner, but I did use toys a lot alone. I gave myself multiples first. Multiple orgasms. I was really into it at one point.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

And some days we find multiples. There have been times when we’ve found many as three or four a day.

Jill Ralston

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Even with the frothy multiples, people don't appreciate the earnings power of these companies.

Jonathan Sherman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Internet protocol was designed to be highly robust and decentralized, there are a few big ‘trunks,’ huge fiber-optic cables that run undersea and carry much of the traffic from, say, the U.S. to Japan, but there are multiples of most of those and other routes, like satellite, even if they all go out.

Roger Kay

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I can't really call myself a bull, i'm not probably as bullish as I could be because I have problems with earnings growth, I have problems with multiples.

David Tepper

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Regional equities are attractive and well supported by the fundamentals today, notably Europe, the U.S. and Japan where earnings multiples are in an inexpensive range of 12 to 18 times currently.

Lorne Baring

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a test of the old regime. It is the first time where we have seen growth fears trump the prospect of more liquidity, as interest-rate hike expectations get pushed back, the multiples we are being asked to pay for equities are increasingly out of step with the growth outlook.

Nick Lawson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These small companies are high growth, and they trade at pretty high multiples, but there's not that much they can do to take costs out of them because you can't integrate them into your business.

Dan Wald

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At the relatively high acquisition multiples we're seeing, there seem to be lenders that are willing to go up to maximum leverage, i think if a sponsor wants to get a (middle market) deal done, it can.

Tom Hobbis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I do think there are valuation concerns, and some tech companies are trading at extremely high multiples.

Derek Hoyt

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When your valuation multiples are closer to your competitors, it gives you more flexibility in expansion opportunities because you can pay for deals in share and cash.

Ramon Fernandez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The sector is very important for them, when families do their allocations on direct investing, they have accepted it is on the riskier side of life. They want things that potentially give you significant multiples on your cash. That's tech.

James Innes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think what's happening now is because of the excessive sell-offs that we have seen in the last few days, definitely, lower oil prices will affect the region but if you take into account the valuations, companies are already trading at cheap multiples.

Ali Adou

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We're kind of the guinea pigs walking through it, but we will issue a marriage license on Jan. 6, the question is whether it's going to be one or going to be multiples.

Jeff Goodman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The fact you're seeing big guys doing private equity investments in Africa is very good. They're paying consistent, high multiples, normally out of every 10 opportunities you look at you do one. In Africa, maybe it's one in every 15.

Miguel Melo Azevedo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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