Nelson Peltz Quotes

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.

We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.

At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.

If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.

I think most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably.

It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

What investors want is growth, margin, and cash.

United's 2015 earnings were one of the best in the company's history.

By strengthening the core of our business and leading in digital innovation, we will accelerate growth, enhance our margin, and deliver increased total shareholder returns.

Our progress isn't just limited to the operation. Financially, we have been performing well. United's 2015 earnings were one of the best in the company's history, and we made significant progress shrinking the margin gap with our closest competitors, strengthening our balance sheet, and returning significant cash to shareholders.

I was never up four percent.

There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

Chasing revenues that don't have good earnings doesn't help us or shareholders one lick.

Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.

I think every company has its own unique approach to creating shareholder value.

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.