Sentences with phrase «are in the market cycle»

The new trends of worsening credit quality and central bank asset sales are important for investors because they speak to the most appropriate asset allocation for where we are in this market cycle and the world's rising political risks.

In a paper on countercyclical investing, Bradley Jones at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) points out that investors often hire active managers just after a period of outperformance, only to experience a period of subsequent underperformance based on where they are in the market cycle.3 Or after doing a tremendous amount of due diligence to hire active managers, institutional investors might be forced to replace underperforming managers, only to leave alpha on the table as these fired managers often outperform in subsequent periods.

If knowing where we are in the market cycle is the most important thing (and not everyone agrees, see the comments from one of my private equity guys about that under part I here) then the best solution is probably to chart the cycles for the markets we're investing in ourselves.

I'm sure the results hinge more on where the January return is in a market cycle (not good for January 2014 if you look at 2013's amazing year).

Investors should search the past for lessons about where we are in the market cycle.

Also, each market has its own varying contributing aspects which affect where it is in its market cycle, such as new construction rates or employment growth factors.

- Where are we in the market cycle?

Not exact matches

The purpose of the competitive analysis is to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the competitors within your market, strategies that will provide you with a distinct advantage, the barriers that can be developed in order to prevent competition from entering your market, and any weaknesses that can be exploited within the product development cycle.

What we've seen is the markets have re-adjusted to this new environment where the administration, very late in the business cycle has decided to expand fiscal policy.

We were late in the business and market cycle and the global economy looked shaky.

Certain matters discussed in this news release are forward - looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, doubts about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, the need to obtain additional funding, risks in product development plans and schedules, rapid technological change, changes and delays in product approval and introduction, customer acceptance of new products, the impact of competitive products and pricing, market acceptance, the lengthy sales cycle, proprietary rights of the Company and its competitors, risk of operations in Israel, government regulations, dependence on third parties to manufacture products, general economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

(His timing was off, he says, as he got in at the peak of the juice concentrate market cycle — yes, there is such a thing.)

«However, the SNES was the most successful home console during its cycle, so it was the start of Nintendo's dominance in the home console market.»

«The prices have really become detached from the fundamentals like sales and cash flow,» says Clayton, who suggests that the market is caught in a cycle of news driving stock prices and stocks fueling news.

«About a year ago there was the belief that the iPhone X could create a super upgrade cycle and now it appears that the iPhone X is a great high end product but priced too high at $ 999 with memory configurations over $ 1,000 is aimed for the high end market and Apple is positioning its product in various price tiers with high, mid and lower end prices.»

If your business is plagued by destabilizing fluctuations in your markets due to seasonal changes or demand cycles, you can even out your sales by tapping markets with different or even countercyclical fluctuations.

So the Fed is now in play, it's raising rates, and typically that's the part of the market cycle where valuations start to come down, and I think that's especially relevant today because valuations have been so high.

Competitive analysis: The purpose of the competitive analysis is to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the competitors within your market, strategies that will provide you with a distinct advantage, the barriers that can be developed in order to prevent competition from entering your market, and any weaknesses that can be exploited within the product development cycle.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

«Notwithstanding the boom and bust cycles in emerging markets, there's every reason to believe that they'll continue to be among the fastest - growing markets in the world,» Yeske said.

That's important, as the PS4 and Xbox One are now reaching a point in their life cycle where the marketing push shifts away from core gamers and toward the mass audience.

There are now enough regular customers in the normal sales cycle, and sustainable growth in new inquiries from a large target market, to qualify the business as reasonably «viable» for the foreseeable intermediate term.

While the firm still has an overweight rating on technology, Wilson said the latest sell - off could be «a cautionary note about what may eventually unfold in the sector as the market starts to price in a tired cycle over the course of 2018.»

Commercial real estate in Calgary was at the top of its market cycle between 2005 and 2008, but even then Concrete routinely raised more money than the buildings actually cost and failed to return the difference to investors.

In its press release, Tableau chairman and co-founder Christian Chabot said the company's results were «impacted by extended sales cycles on large deals in the U.S. and softness in (international markets).&raquIn its press release, Tableau chairman and co-founder Christian Chabot said the company's results were «impacted by extended sales cycles on large deals in the U.S. and softness in (international markets).&raquin the U.S. and softness in (international markets).&raquin (international markets).»

In a research note, Sterne Agee CRT analyst Michael Derchin said: «Bob's extensive background in market planning is a perfect fit for (Spirit) at this stage in its growth cycle, in our vieIn a research note, Sterne Agee CRT analyst Michael Derchin said: «Bob's extensive background in market planning is a perfect fit for (Spirit) at this stage in its growth cycle, in our viein market planning is a perfect fit for (Spirit) at this stage in its growth cycle, in our viein its growth cycle, in our viein our view.

It said in a note Friday: «With the recent back - up in both IG [investment grade] and HY [high - yield] spreads to their respective 3.5 - year wides, a discussion has emerged about whether the market is sensing the next default cycle around the corner or is simply «overreacting» to some exogenous but ultimately irrelevant events.

Assuming it's near its expiration date, investors should favor the large, dividend - paying stocks that tend to outperform in this stage of a market cycle.

Instead, Dowd explains to clients that while «there are certain aspects of market collapses or boom bust cycles that do echo each other and are similar, it never happens in the same way, and the catalyst is never the same.»

But if this economic cycle indeed has another extended leg in — as plenty of indicators suggest — and companies can keep the profit machine running along with stock buybacks and mergers, there's no saying the market as a whole can't work its way a good deal higher before it reaches its ultimate peak.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Online initiatives like online renewals and online reservations enhances customer convenience and positions us as a cutting - edge supplier in a market largely populated, especially in the cycling segment, by customers who tend to be early technology adapters.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

«The I.P.O. market is a cycle, it's bought on hope, held in greed and sold in fear — we're in the first stage,» said John E. Fitzgibbon Jr., founder of the research firm I.P.O. Scoop.

Because the market «is heading toward the end of an extraordinarily long IPO cycle,» says Wall Street veteran Tom Stephens, who packaged public offerings in»83 for a small underwriter, «lots of companies were too early to be in the hands of the public.

That decline in sentiment could be due to the fact that the real estate cycle is moving into a later stage when property values in some markets are nearing the peak and income growth and total returns are slowing.

They also suggest that the influence of U.S. economic news is even larger in a globalized world economy in which business cycles across major industrialized countries have become more synchronized, leading to greater integration and news spillover across financial markets.

In the past, a narrow market led by few participants was in the final stage of its life cyclIn the past, a narrow market led by few participants was in the final stage of its life cyclin the final stage of its life cycle.

Factors that could cause or contribute to actual results differing from our forward - looking statements include risks relating to: failure of DBRS to rate the Notes at the anticipated ratings levels, which is a closing condition, or at all; changes in the financial markets, including changes in credit markets, interest rates, securitization markets generally and our proposed securitization in particular; the willingness of investors to buy the Notes; adverse developments regarding OnDeck, its business or the online or broader marketplace lending industry generally, any of which could impact what credit ratings, if any, are issued with respect to the Notes; the extended settlement cycle for the scheduled closing on April 17, 2018, which may exacerbate the foregoing risks; and other risks, including those described in our Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and in other documents that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time which are or will be available on the Commission's website at www.sec.gov.

Also, bills have typically traded below other money market rates during tightening cycles, as they do now; periods where bills trade at or above other rates have been the exception and not the rule.36 Thus, the smaller increase in bill yields than in rates on other term instruments is not surprising, and I do not read it as undermining the general conclusion that the policy rate increase was effective in firming money market conditions.37

In this cycle, the pursuit of market share and volumes is less important than profitability and balance sheet resilience.»

As always, manager selection will remain a critical component in allocation decisions as there will likely be greater dispersion among returns due to an increase in volatility as the market cycle progresses.

Although slightly below the average, this is much higher than returns in the last two election cycles when a new president had to be selected: In 2008, the market plunged nearly 40 percent; in 2000, it ended down 9 percenin the last two election cycles when a new president had to be selected: In 2008, the market plunged nearly 40 percent; in 2000, it ended down 9 percenIn 2008, the market plunged nearly 40 percent; in 2000, it ended down 9 percenin 2000, it ended down 9 percent.

As you said, the market typically comes in 7 - 10 year cycles, so our current plan is save, save, save... and if the market starts to come down, we might be much more inclined to move cash into a property.

The U.S. and China are in the late stages of this cycle, she says, while Europe and Japan are just reaching the halfway point, and many emerging markets are in the early innings of recovery.

Far from being perma - bearish, our present methods of classifying market return / risk profiles encourage a leveraged long position about 52 % of the time in market cycles across history, encouraging a partially - hedged stance about 12 % of the time, fully - hedged about 31 % of the time, and hard - defensive as we are today about 5 % of the time.

Although the coworking market has been widely covered in the press, it is still at the early stage of the life product cycle.

Understand also that the evidence pointing to steep market risk over the completion of this cycle is quite robust, as the valuation criteria in the overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndromes we now observe would be satisfied even if stocks were significantly lower than they are at present.

Given that valuations and market action have generally been a useful guide to setting investment exposure in normal post-war market cycles, it may be helpful to detail how these factors behaved during the period between 1929 to 1935, which represents the greatest period of credit strains observed in U.S. data.

Gill also wrote that he thinks the gaming GPU market is «ripe» for an upgrade cycle and argued that even a meaningful decline of 20 % to 30 % in crypto revenue wouldn't have much impact on Nvidia's earnings.