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Brookfield (TSX:BN) Stock Faces Valuation Scrutiny Despite Stronger Q2 Earnings
Brookfield walked into this earnings day with its stock drifting lower for weeks and a rich P/E of 79.4x that already asked investors to believe a lot. The Q2 report then hit with a clean headline. Distributable earnings before realizations reached US$1.4b and fee bearing capital rose to US$672b on the back of record fundraising. The market now has to decide whether the recent share price softness is justified or whether emotions have been too focused on past earnings declines and not enough...