Episode Details

Investment professionals use a variety of traditional measures to value companies, such as PE ratio, Price-to-book value, Price-to-sales, and Enterprise value to EBITA. But are they accurate? In this episode, Philip Petursson, Chief Investment Strategist, speaks with Patrick Blais, Senior Portfolio Manager, co-head of the Canadian Fundamental Equity team, Manulife Asset Management, who views valuing companies differently. He has often said, “company earnings can be potentially fictional whereas cashflow is real”. Is there a right measure? Listen on.