Louis Navellier Quotes

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.

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

Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

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.

Internally, when we manage portfolios, we figure out what works in large cap, what works in mid cap, what works in small cap. Generally speaking, large cap stocks want earning stability, strong cash flow, margin expansion.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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

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

What investors want is growth, margin, and cash.

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

When I got a deposit on my very first cake, I took that deposit and I bought some cake mix with it. I've never taken a loan - ever. And we're doing this expansion just like everything we've done in this bakery as we've grown. If we weren't able to afford paying for something cash, we didn't buy it.

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.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

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.