Use priceline.com Incorporated performance together with your assets to protect against small markets fluctuations as well as to check it against diversification policy that fits your risk preferences.
If you would invest 76,213 in priceline.com Incorporated on April 26, 2012 and sell it today you would lose (10,925) from holding priceline.com Incorporated or give up 14.33% of portfolio value over 30 days. priceline.com Incorporated is currenly does not generate positive expected returns and assumes 2.12% risk (volatility on return distribution) over the 30 days horizon. In different words, 35% of equities are less volatile than priceline.com Incorporated and 99% of traded equity instruments are projected to make higher returns than the company over the 30 days investment horizon.
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Given investment horizon of 30 days, priceline.com Incorporated is expected to under-perform the market. In addition to that, the company is 2.9 times more volatile than its market benchmark. It trades about -0.24 of its total potential returns per unit of risk. The NYSE is currently generating roughly -0.47 per unit of volatility.
priceline Operating Margin
Based on recorded statements priceline.com Incorporated has Operating Margin of 32.49%. This is 797.21% lower than that of Services sector, and 280.0% higher than that of General Entertainment industry, The Operating Margin for all stocks is 733.33% lower than the firm.
A good Operating Margin is required for a company to be able to pay for its fixed costs or pay out its debt which implies that the higher the margin, the better. This ratio is most effective in evaluating the earning potential of a company over time when comparing it against firm's competitors.
Over the last 30 days priceline.com Incorporated has generated negative risk-adjusted returns adding no value to investors with long positions.
1 Month Effecincy (a.k Sharpe Ratio) ...
-0.24
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2.12
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Based on monthly moving average priceline is performing at about 0% of its full potential. If added to a well diversified portfolio the total return can be enhanced and market risk can be reduced. You can increase risk-adjusted return of priceline by adding it to a well-diversified portfolio.
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