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Estimates Mean High Low Year Ago
VALUATION RATIOS
Company industry sector
DIVIDENDS
GROWTH RATES
FINANCIAL STRENGTH
PROFITABILITY RATIOS
EFFICIENCY
MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS
2 ABOITIZ EQUITY AEV Aug 20, 57.50 5,554,266,807 44.00 140,522,950,270.00 4.36
VENTURES, INC. 2015
4 AYALA LAND, ALI Aug 20, 37.10 14,695,631,367 50.00 272,603,961,876.40 8.46
INC. 2015
6 BDO UNIBANK, BDO Aug 20, 98.95 3,645,375,218 45.00 162,319,445,108.55 5.04
INC. 2015
8 BANK OF THE BPI Aug 20, 89.95 3,929,090,393 47.00 166,108,190,025.75 5.16
PHILIPPINE 2015
ISLANDS
11 EMPERADOR INC. EMP Aug 20, 9.24 16,120,000,000 19.00 28,300,272,000.00 0.88
2015
12 FIRST GEN FGEN Aug 20, 23.75 3,660,943,557 33.00 28,692,645,132.50 0.89
CORPORATION 2015
13 GLOBE TELECOM, GLO Aug 20, 2,624.00 132,739,557 22.00 76,627,892,672.00 2.38
INC. 2015
16 JOLLIBEE FOODS JFC Aug 20, 185.90 1,069,236,761 42.00 83,483,867,896.00 2.59
CORPORATION 2015
21 MANILA ELECTRIC MER Aug 20, 282.00 1,127,098,705 14.00 44,497,856,958.00 1.38
COMPANY 2015
22 METRO PACIFIC MPI Aug 20, 5.03 27,885,373,752 44.00 61,715,909,188.53 1.92
INVESTMENTS 2015
CORPORATION
24 ROBINSONS LAND RLC Aug 20, 28.70 4,093,830,685 39.00 45,822,246,881.60 1.42
CORPORATION 2015
25 Semirara Mining SCC Aug 20, 128.90 1,068,750,000 27.00 37,195,706,250.00 1.15
and Power 2015
Corporation
27 SAN MIGUEL SMC Aug 20, 56.00 2,378,524,978 15.00 19,979,609,832.00 0.62
CORPORATION 2015
Central banks normally set the price of money using official interest rates to regulate the
economy. These interest rates radiate out to the rest of the economy. They affect the
cost of loans paid by companies, the cost of mortgages for households and the return
on saving money. Higher interest rates make borrowing less attractive because taking
out a loan becomes more expensive. They also make saving more attractive, demand
and spending reduces. Lower interest rates have the reverse effect.
But interest rates cannot be cut below zero and when official rates get close to zero the
effect they have on regulating the economy becomes muted. Banks still need to make a
profit and in troubled times the gap between the official interest rate and the rates faced
by companies and households can rise, because lenders want a greater return for the
additional risk of granting a loan when times are tough.
When interest rates are close to zero there is another way of affecting the price of
money: Quantitative Easing (QE). The aim is still to bring down interest rates faced by
companies and households and the most important step in QE is that the central bank
creates new money for use in an economy.
Only a central bank can do this because its money is accepted as payment by
everybody. Sometimes dubbed incorrectly "printing money" a central bank simply
creates new money at the stroke of a computer key, in effect increasing the credit in its
own bank account.
It can then use this new money to buy whatever assets it likes: government bonds,
equities, houses, corporate bonds or other assets from banks. With the central bank
weighing in, the price of the assets it buys should rise and the yield, or interest rate, on
that asset will fall. Companies for example with a willing central bank seeking to buy its
bond, will be able to pay a lower interest rate when new bonds are issued or existing
bonds come to the end of their life and need to be replaced.
With cheaper borrowing the hope is that the central bank will again encourage greater
spending, putting additional demand into the economy and pulling it out of recession. As
the money ends up in bank deposits, banks should also find their funding position
improved and make them more willing to lend.
A side effect will be that this new money is expected to raise consumer prices giving
people another incentive to buy now rather than later.
Of course there are risks. First, a central bank can lose money on its purchases, money
that will ultimately have to be underwritten by taxpayers either with higher future
taxation or by the central bank creating more money and risking higher future inflation.
Second, go too far with creating and spending money and you will destroy the value of
the currency. Inflation or even hyperinflation is the result. Third, if a descent into QE
destroys confidence in an economy rather than gives reassurance that the authorities
are on the case it can be counter-productive.
That is why central banks cannot use QE willy-nilly, but if you are not aggressive
enough QE simply will not work to change other interest rates in the economy and
stimulate demand. The trouble is, because the policy is unorthodox and the situation is
dramatic no one knows how much QE is too much and how much is not enough. Who
would be a central banker at the moment? [1]