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The irrational component of your stock price

  • Market fundamentals explain share price fluctuations over the long term, but in the short term irrational investor biases and myopia can skew prices.
  • These emotionally driven deviations in the markets can upset a company's strategic plans—if its managers don't understand what lies behind the deviations.
  • The assumptions investors make about inflation and earnings projections are responsible for this skittishness.
  • Moderate adaptations to a fundamental valuation model can help companies assess the impact of emotional investors.
This article includes the following exhibits:
  • Exhibit 1: The fundamental valuation model creates a fairly accurate trend line for estimating long-term growth.
  • Exhibit 2: P/Es generated by the behavioral model are mostly within 20 percent of actual P/Es.

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