Giles Hundleby, director
at analyst group BVG Associates, says it is a time of «great hope but no shortage of challenges» for the sector.
Not exact matches
Darren Seifer, a food and beverage industry
analyst at the NPD
Group, explains that companies like NatureBox are «tapping into a consumer demand for freshness.»
Thats why the market isnt reacting that much, because sometimes the West Coast numbers are erratic and usually when you get a big build in the West Coast, its followed with a big draw the next week, «said Phil Flynn, an
analyst at Price Futures
Group.»
«It's tweet by tweet,» said Phil Flynn,
analyst at Price Futures
Group, saying the market is...
To arrive
at this select
group, they've screened the 50 companies with
analyst days scheduled for March and narrowed it down to those with particularly liquid options.
«The problem is YouTube is trying to price itself
at the higher end of the market,» says Brian Wieser, an
analyst who covers Google for Pivotal Research
Group in New York.
«The most likely scenario for the Section 301 dispute is one round of tariffs on each side, followed by a settlement,» Michael Hirson, director, Asia,
at consulting firm Eurasia
Group, and a team of
analysts said in a Tuesday note.
These two headaches have cost Barrick about $ 15.9 billion over the past few years, according to an
analyst at Macquarie
Group.
At the company's annual
analyst summit in Shenzhen, Changzhu Li, vice president of the consumer business
group's handsets strategy, said the U.S. had effectively «locked the door» to the tech giant.
«Away - from - home coffee sales are on the rise,» says Darren Seifer, food and beverages industry
analyst at NPD
Group, «especially in the afternoon.
The futures are behaving as expected and designed,» said Tom Lehrkinder, senior
analyst at consulting firm Tabb
Group.
«Oil reacted very severely» to Netanyahu's announcement, said Phil Flynn,
analyst at Price Futures
Group in Chicago.
But fully half of all automobile brands are already building 1 Mbps Bluetooth connectivity into
at least some of their models, says Phil Magney, co-founder and principal
analyst of Telematics Research
Group, a research and data firm in Minneapolis.
«Everyone's got a health message out there these days,» says Darren Seifer, a food and beverage industry
analyst at market research firm the NPD
Group.
He is also a principal
analyst at Altimeter
Group.
First, surround yourself with an excellent
group of advisors, starting with investment bankers and
analysts and advisers
at the board level.
For Joel Espelien, a senior
analyst at research and advisory firm The Diffusion
Group, the problem with most smart home products isn't the category, but the value of the service they provide.
It's surrounded by payments companies that either do what Stripe does or have imitated its payment offering, says Thad Peterson, a senior
analyst at Aite
Group.
According to Brian Wieser, a senior advertising
analyst at Pivotal Research
Group, this should keep Google and Facebook from feeling too threatened in the online - ad industry.
Analysts said the move appeared aimed
at securing the support of the German company's powerful works council for the appointment of a new chief executive and a far - reaching overhaul of the
group's structure.
Lloyds Banking
Group, which announces third quarter results on Wednesday, is seen delivering a 4.5 percent rise in underlying profit before tax on the back of lower costs, according to
analysts at Investec.
That trend particularly applies to terrorist operations in conflict zones such as Syria, according Nolwenn Bourillon - Bervas, lead terrorism
analyst at independent risk consultancy the Risk Advisory
Group.
Analysts at ConvergEX
Group, a New York — based technology and software products firm, arrived
at this conclusion after they looked
at attendance figures for games since 2007 and compared them to economic trends and stock indexes.
Christine Barry, senior
analyst at consultancy Aite
Group, notes: «They are looking for businesses to move away from Excel spreadsheets and use more sophisticated tools.
Qualcomm and Broadcom round out the subsector's top five companies by market cap, making a failed merger between the two companies particularly painful for the
group, according to Scott Kessler, lead tech
analyst at CFRA Research.
«It is possible that the acquisition of COL is the first step in separating UTX into two entities: a Commercial Operation and a Defense and Aerospace
Group,» Howard Rubel, equity
analyst at Jefferies, said in a note last week as speculation about a deal being struck by the two companies increased.
«As good as the affiliate fee number was in this quarter, it looks really bad in the next quarter,» said Brian Wieser, an
analyst at Pivotal Research
Group.
Chris Krueger, an
analyst at Cowen Washington Research
Group, said a large package could be difficult since the parties have a slew of policy differences on infrastructure — such as how to pay for it.
Chris Krueger, an
analyst at Cowen Washington Research
Group, said the sudden speed of the tax bill also had a political necessity: Republicans need a win.
An IPO could lead to softness in SoftBank
Group shares for a while as some telecoms - focused investors sell their holdings to buy shares in the newly listed entity, said Chris Lane, an
analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein.
«Sometimes calls traveling across the public Internet just got lost,» says Aurica Yen, an
analyst at the Yankee
Group, in Boston.
According to Chris Krueger, an
analyst at Cowen Washington Research
Group, that sets up a serious time crunch.
«It's intuitive,» says Aurica Yen, an
analyst at the Yankee
Group, in Boston.
Since video has become a major focus for AOL, Adap.tv, which specializes in video and has dealings with 83 of the top 100 Ad Age advertisers, «essentially provides the technology and the relationships to help facilitate that shift
at a faster rate for AOL,» said Telsey
Group analyst James Cakmak.
Rob Enderle, President and Principal
Analyst at Enderle
Group, says the «internet of things» appears to be the central theme
at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show
at Las Vegas.
«Some Amplify partnerships will result in TV - related ad revenue flowing to Twitter (albeit modest amounts in total),» Brian Wieser, an
analyst at Pivotal Research
Group, wrote in a research note earlier this week on the CBS deal.
Brian Wieser, an
analyst with Pivotal Research
Group, estimates Facebook can generate
at least US$ 400 million per year in the United States alone from Facebook Exchange.
«These days, consumers don't care whether you call it Black Friday or Cyber Monday — all they care about is the price,» says Marshal Cohen, chief industry
analyst at the NPD
Group.
Smartphones are a huge market for [semiconductors] overall,» said Peter Boockvar, chief market
analyst at Bleakley Financial
Group.
Tom Forte, an
analyst with Telsey Advisory
Group, had a more positive impression of Tuesday's launch event, noting that the 5C may be sold
at a low price in China for customers who sign a contract with China Mobile.
Tighter supplies of gasoline and diesel in B.C. would likely drive up prices in B.C.'s Lower Mainland by about 10 cents per litre, said fuel market
analyst Michael Ervin, senior vice-president
at the Kent
Group Ltd..
«Trust in West Coast ports is
at an all - time low, and the perception of supply chain risk is
at an all - time high,» said Peter Tirschwell, chief maritime
analyst at the JOC
Group, a supplier of U.S. sea - borne trade data.
«If you looked
at the entire American diet 10 years ago, and the diet today, the thing that has increased most is this product called yogurt,» says Harry Balzer, the chief food
analyst at market research firm NPD
Group.
Analysts at Bespoke Investment
Group noted on Friday that inventories plunged in the second quarter, providing a drag on the headline GDP figures, while real final sales were up 4.8 %.
And that freedom is a good thing, according to Brian Solis, a top
analyst at Altimeter
Group.
The duo had previously founded the blogging community Scribnia and also had general business experience: Groetzinger worked as an associate consultant
at Boston - based management consulting firm Bain & Co., and D'Souza was an
analyst at management consulting firm Monitor
Group in Cambridge, Mass..
«Google needs to have a social strategy that is relevant to Google and the way people use Google applications,» said Susan Etlinger,
analyst at Altimeter
Group.
«The minute there are questions about your practices that appear in any way credible, that can be devastating to consumer trust and extremely difficult to get back,» said Shanghai - based James Roy, a senior
analyst at China Market Research
Group.
It's just implementing them in a product, showing consumers that it has a value and can do things better than they were doing before,» says consumer tech
analyst Benjamin Arnold
at the NPD
Group.
«CME is a little better known for futures so there may have been a comfort there,» said Tom Lehrkinder, senior
analyst at consulting firm Tabb
Group.