Companies will do whatever they can within the rules to maximize net income
as analysts use it to rate companies.
Analysts who assume that profit margins will remain high and expand further,
as analysts using the Fed Model suggest, view current market levels as cheap.
Not exact matches
Several consumer - product makers, such
as Coca - Cola and PepsiCo Inc., have large cash holdings overseas that could be
used to fund product innovation or acquisitions, according to Bloomberg Intelligence
analyst Ken Shea.
Earlier this month,
analysts speculated that China could
use its huge stockpile of US Treasurys
as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations.
Management believes
analysts and investors
use Adjusted EBITDA
as a supplemental measure to evaluate overall operating performance and facilitate comparisons with other wireless communications companies because it is indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and trends by excluding the impact of interest expense from financing, non-cash depreciation and amortization from capital investments, non-cash stock - based compensation, network decommissioning costs
as they are not indicative of T - Mobile's ongoing operating performance and certain other nonrecurring income and expenses.
, a hospitality industry
analyst for PKF Consulting in Atlanta, says companies
used to think of extra fees
as «found money,» and were willing to waive them.
Indeed, Josh Bersin, an
analyst at Bersin by Deloitte who tracks workplace technology, believes that the rise of VR
as a training tool mimics the early stages of how companies first
used YouTube to show training videos.
As desktop
use, traditional ads and virtual payments on apps and games like those published by Zynga slow down, many
analysts say the company's mobile business, commerce features and new external ad network will more than make up for it.
The company considers same - property NOI
as an important operating performance measure because it is frequently
used by securities
analysts and investors to measure only the net operating income of properties that have been owned by the company for the entire current and prior year reporting periods.
Technology
analysts have credited Cloudera, founded in 2008,
as one of the pioneers in popularizing big data technologies like Hadoop, which companies
use to store and process massive amounts of data across thousands of computers.
This
use of buybacks
as an image booster has become one of the most divisive ideas about repurchases, with many
analysts and market watchers calling it «financial engineering.»
«If you're Alibaba, you want to probe and find out more, and
use it
as a learning experience,» says Martin Pyykkonen, a tech
analyst at Wedge Partners.
Many
analysts and industry pundits correctly predicted that Apple would
use the streaming service
as the framework for Apple's own alternative to popular services like Spotify.
Although AR and VR are usually categorized
as similar technologies, the ways in which they are being
used is still quite different, says Tuong Nguyen, a principal research
analyst at Gartner.
When a company sends a business partner an e-mail or file, it gives the partner implicit permission to copy, forward or otherwise
use the information
as the partner sees fit, even if the material was originally encrypted, according to Heiser, the Gartner
analyst.
Several
analysts have said that the global scope of the penalty, combined with the
use of national security
as an excuse, raises the risk of a cascading series of reprisals that threatens the stability of the post-Second World War trading system.
Herman Saftlas, an
analyst with S&P Capital IQ, says that the elderly
use twice
as many medications
as young people do.
We believe that these non-GAAP measures are useful to investors in assessing our operating performance,
as it provides them with the same tools that management
uses to evaluate our performance and is responsive to questions we receive from both investors and
analysts.
«Market likely getting ahead of itself
as we have not seen exponential rise in
use case yet, but value is rising exponentially,» Morgan Stanley
analysts wrote in a note Wednesday.
The free app provides a forecast of next day price directions for U.S. stock indexes and equities
using text analysis and proprietary algorithms to analyze and encapsulate the online sentiment of publicly traded companies from seven million web pages published by over fifteen thousand sources, including news outlets, financial
analysts, corporate websites and social networking sites such
as Twitter and Facebook.
Medline told
analysts he will continue have Canadian Tire remain «on the offence» amid stiff competition from U.S. retail rivals such
as Walmart and Target and make full
use of digital technology to set itself apart.
But missing from the details were BlackBerry subscriber numbers, a figure that
analysts have come to rely on
as a barometer of how many people still
use the company's devices.
«People may not be driving
as frequently or
as a far
as they
used to because they can stop by a Krogers or a HEB or a Wegmans,» co-CEO John Mackey told Wall Street
analysts on Wednesday evening to discuss its weak earnings.
The LAD was
used by three Statistics Canada
analysts, Sébastien LaRochelle - Coté, John Myles and Garnet Picot (referred to
as the StatCan
analysts) to study the incomes of Canadians
as they make the transition from work to retirement.
As an aside, I was pleased to see that Jonathan Anderson, whose work I
used to read when he was a bank
analyst, seems to think that growth has to be knocked back to 3 percent for it to be sustainable and for the debt burden to stop growing.
BLK plans to invest in smaller firms that
analysts cover less and therefore might be under - or overvalued, and returns will be judged
using the Russell 2000 Index
as a benchmark.
Another reason
analysts consider the January effect less important
as of 2016 is that more people are
using tax - sheltered retirement plans and therefore have no reason to sell at the end of the year for a tax loss.
Some
analysts said the sharp swings in offshore exchange rates and borrowing costs appeared to be engineered by the Chinese leadership,
as a way to ease depreciation pressure on the renminbi and to discourage speculation — namely short - sellers, investors who bet on declines in the currency, often by
using borrowed funds.
Likewise, in an example revealed by Gartner
analyst Doug Laney, Walmart stores increased online sales
as much
as 15 % — that's billions of dollars —
using machine learning, text analysis and synonym mining.
Anyway, I
used to work in the financial services industry
as a financial
analyst, but now I am fully self - employed
as an online freelancer and solopreneur.
Some
analysts think bitcoin will retain a premium
as a security, like gold, in the digital world, while other cryptocurrencies are
used for commerce.
«Icon's listing in local exchanges is significant itself
as the coin is South Korea's first platform coin,» built on code that can be
used for other applications, said Park Nok - sun, a cryptocurrency
analyst at NH Investment and Securities.
We've been
using investment newsletters
as our
analyst team for a long time, but never encountered an affordable one which truly met our needs.
Typically, a jeweler such
as Graff Diamonds Corp. or a group of investors would buy the gem and
use computerized scanning technology to decide how to most profitably cut the stone into several pieces and mount them in jewelry, according to Maurice Mason, a mining
analyst at Stifel Nicolaus Europe Ltd. in London.
Analysts at BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage of Carvana Co (NYSE: CVNA) with an Outperform rating and $ 15 price target
as the company is well positioned to benefit from the upcoming e-commerce disruption within the
used car industry.
Distribution Stock - When sock is sold there are several approaches that can be
used, If the stock is sold all at once on the market, some
analysts might interpret that
as an indication that there is something wrong and
as a result the value of the stock could be adversely affected.
For much of the past two years, the discounts offered by automakers have remained at levels that industry
analysts say are unsustainable and unhealthy in the long term... Sales are expected to drop further in 2018
as interest rates rise and more late - model
used cars return to dealer lots to compete with new ones.
While this is the traditional approach
used by most brokers and
analysts and certainly has value, it has some serious weaknesses such
as:
If you're trying to grow your social media following, your
analyst may
use a tool such
as Facebook Insights to measure metrics such
as the number of people your posts reached, the number of people who clicked on them and how many reactions, comments and shares your content generated.
Companies like to
use EPS
as a performance metric because it is the primary focus of financial
analysts when assessing the value of a stock and of investors when evaluating their return on investment.
If you're a younger
analyst and you're
using the Sohn Conference
as a way to source ideas, here's a personal anecdote (and warning).
Long before James Tobin assigned the letter «Q» to this asset - price ratio, financial
analysts were
using it
as a means to judge how much capacity an economic sector had to take on more loans.
Analysts are eyeing the potential shutdown of the government next week if Republicans
use the budget
as a lever to end Planned Parenthood funding.
Analysts provide value to the company, not by issuing accurate research reports, but by convincing clients to trade and companies to
use the bank
as an underwriter.
Importantly,
as we have noted previously, we assume a 20 % tax rate for the purpose of forecasting Apple's real cash earnings, not the 26.2 % «effective» tax rate
used by Apple, and view this
as a necessary adjustment, often overlooked by both
analysts and investors.
Earlier this month,
analysts speculated that China could
use its huge stockpile of US treasuries
as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations.
However,
analysts were disappointed that the watch is missing a key element seen
as vital in emerging smartwatch technology: It lacks biometric sensors that could be
used to monitor heart rate, respiration and other body functions deployed in other wearable fitness devices.
But
analysts said it's unlikely Icahn will be able to
use that to press the kind of demands he's made in the past, such
as a board seat or a change in management.
«
Using Motorola, just
as Lenovo
used the IBM ThinkPad brand, to gain quick credibility and access to desirable markets and build critical mass makes a lot of sense,» said Forrester Research
analyst Frank Gillett.
I find it really hard to trust
analysts who
use «100 %» and «perfect» at one moment and «not perfect» and «
as good
as they can be the next».