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The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

IFB294: Explaining Multiple Expansion and It’s Impact on Value

The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

Andrew Sather

Investing, Business

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast! Today's episode will be all about multiple expansion- what it means and how it will impact the business you're investing in! The "multiples" term is always being thrown around by talking heads on tv and people in the investing community and we know how it can be confusing at times especially for beginners so listen on as we discuss each facet of it. Let's go! Timestamps of the episode: -What a “multiple” term mean in the investing word. [01:54] -The importance of knowing the driver behind every multiple expansion. [04:33] -How market expectations are baked into the multiples of a business. [05:45] -Other impact drivers that can move a business’s multiple expansion. [09:02] -If there’s multiple expansion, there exists also a compression. $META being the prime recent example. [14:40] -How the price to book ratio can be a good multiple to gauge cyclical businesses. [21:14]  -The dangers of being fixated on the multiple expansion/compression game. [23:50] -Value investors are also victims of the multiples game. [28:30] Note: Timestamps may differ and are approximate, depending on your podcast player. For more insight like this into investing and stock selection for beginners, visit stockmarketpdf.com  SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | Tunein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.

0:08.5

Love this podcast because it crushes your dreams and getting rich quick.

0:11.5

They actually got me into reading stats for anything.

0:14.0

You're tuned in to the Investing for Beginners Podcast.

0:18.0

Led by Andrew Seder and Dave Ahern.

0:21.0

Step by step premium investing guidance for beginners.

0:25.0

Your path to financial freedom starts now.

0:29.0

All right folks, welcome to Investing for Beginners Podcast.

0:34.0

Today we have episode 294.

0:36.0

Today, Andrew and I are going to talk about the concept of multiple expansion

0:41.0

and how it can impact the value of a company that you are looking at.

0:45.0

So without any further ado, let's go ahead and dive in.

0:48.0

Andrew, would you like to start talking to Andrew?

0:52.0

I'm going to start talking to Andrew.

0:55.0

I guess first maybe let's talk about multiples and kind of give everybody a little bit of an overview of what that is.

1:02.0

So if you're new to the show and you're not sure what we're talking about, here we go.

1:09.0

Perfect.

1:10.0

A multiple is a way to get an idea of how expensive a stock is.

1:18.0

And so basically what you're doing when you use a multiple is you're comparing something about the company.

1:24.0

Something about the company to its stock price.

1:27.0

The most common multiple is the price to earnings multiple or PE ratio.

1:33.0

And you will hear that on probably so many different stock market shows or stock market articles or analysis.

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