Dec 3, 2003 10:14
20 yrs ago
English term

longer-term multiple discount

English Bus/Financial Equity funds
I'm not sure whether to interpret this as "longer-term discount based on the multiples" or "discount based on the longer-term multiples".

"Whilst Financials continue to trade at a discount to the
broader equity market this has closed in the last 6 months, and the sector is trading close to its longer-term multiple discount."

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Neither really

It simply means that finanicial stocks are trading closer to their historical average discount as compared to the broader equity market.
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price to earnings

I forgot to add- multiples refers to the price:earnings ratio. If historically the broad based index has an average, say of 25:1 price to earnings ratio, and financials had an average of 15:1, they trade at a discount compared to the broad market. If, now thea are tarding at 20:1 P/E then they are trading closer to the market as a whole than they were before.
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agree Ralf Lemster : Spot on.
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agree Rajan Chopra
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