Sentences with phrase «bought shares»

Treasury Department bought shares of Fannie and Freddie's stock to support stock price levels and allow the two to continue to raise capital on the private market (in order for them to buy and guarantee more mortgages).

If you owned or bought shares of Halcon Resources at the start of 2016, you got slaughtered, as the company went bankrupt, emerging in a «prepackaged» plan that it negotiated with its debt holders.

But if you bought shares of Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: CLMT), Halcon Resources Corporation (NYSE: HK), Noble Corporation Ordinary Shares (U.K.)(NYSE: NE), or Teekay Tankers Ltd. (NYSE: TNK), you almost assuredly lost money in 2016, and maybe a lot of it.

Had you bought shares of Wal - Mart on the 1st of September 1987 and held through the 1st of September 2017, you'd be up over 2,330 % (including dividends, not reinvested).

If I only bought shares based on my gut feeling, I would probably have gotten weak and left the market at a significant markdown.

The problem arises, however, when expectations become mismatched: The Gordons no longer sought to create wealth because they did not need more money in their bank accounts, while owners of the enterprise presumably bought shares because they wanted to get richer.

To be sure, the value of their investments has risen since they bought shares of Flipkart.

This allows people who bought shares at different times to sell only the ones that will help them pay the least amount in taxes on any gains.

When a business is trading at a lower price than several proven value investors (including Mr. Buffett) last bought shares, it is usually a good place to start your research.

Nice article, I just recently bought shares, as I liked the value and like the emerging technologies they are getting into.

For example, when I bought shares of Disney back in 2012, its dividend payment was $ 0.75 per share for a dividend yield of 1.50 %.

Still, he wondered what would happen if he mechanically bought shares in good businesses available at bargain prices.

Given the attractive valuation and management's great track record, Forager bought shares in the company in late May.

So if you bought shares with the money you saved through lower mortgage payments, then you deserve applause — or your own hedge fund!

When a major company such as Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is caught in a scandal, the declining share price doesn't just hurt investors who knowingly bought shares of the company.

As I'm writing this: the stock is back down to $ 32.85 a share, which is basically what I bought my shares at back in October.

Case in point: this month I bought shares in a company that has paid out rising dividends for 33 years.

Which is one of the reasons I bought shares of The Travelers Companies last month.

And later investors, who bought shares of Uber at a valuation higher than $ 50 billion, are unlikely to want to book a loss and sell.

He bought shares in a private placement negotiated with Griffin and Tribune Publishing management, not on the open market.

I bought shares recently through a broker but have never received a share certificate or confirmation of share ownership.

I bought shares of Diageo in early 2016 for ~ $ 102.

Except on a Schedule 13F, but he has basically forever to file that — it's due 45 days after the end of the quarter when he bought the shares.

Many people bought shares in companies that had little revenue or profit.

The Great Western Railway was for decades the most admired railway company in Britain, yet anyone who had bought shares at its launch in 1835 (at a fraction of their peak in 1845) and held them until 1913 would have seen an annual return of only 5 %.

Investors bought shares of Amazon and Netflix, but sold shares of Facebook, according to fresh data from TD Ameritrade.

Ferro and Merrick Media bought shares both separately and multiply over their two - year investment horizon.

I studied opportunities, then «bought shares» in companies.

But we've also bought some shares in AFL, RIG, and ESV during the last few weeks.

In other words, if he bought the shares on the secondary market, he was either a jerk or a dope.

An insider has bought shares of the largest energy infrastructure company in North America.

Due to his encouragement, I bought shares in the dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) of the electric utility Commonwealth Edison (ComEd).

People who bought shares in this company are investors.

But in 2012, they sold the bonds and bought shares of Berkshire.

@TodMac asks if Cramer is a fan of Peabody Energy (BTU) considering that George Soros recently bought shares.

But over the summer, Icahn revealed he had bought shares in Apple and later discussed with Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook his desire to see the size of the buyback increased.

Berkshire said in the application that it hasn't bought shares in Wells Fargo since Oct. 21.

Slim bought the shares for almost $ 6.36 each, about half of Times Co.'s $ 12.28 closing price, Times Co. said today in a statement.

We saw this with both Allergan (AGN) and Zoetis (ZTS), two companies that Ackman bought shares in while working with Valeant on an acquisition.

I for one am totally THRILLED with Netflix and wish id bought shares in the company, as they remind me of what TV used to be like - free, with an aerial almost.

There was a particularly unfortunate case a few years ago where a company known as Goff, which hadn't earned a dime, ended up getting major media coverage, and many unsuspecting investors took the bait and bought shares as high as $ 0.65.

If the asset's price drops, you will be getting more shares of the asset for the same amount of money, and so if and when the price recovers, you will have spent less per share, on average, than if you had bought the shares at their peak pre-fall price.

When Andrew Pyle bought shares in SNC - Lavalin Group in 2010 he thought he was buying one of Canada's best blue - chip companies.

People who bought shares on August 19, 2004, and kept it have made off well, as the stock price of Google and parent company Alphabet has skyrocketed.

In retirement at age 77, he bought shares of the South Sea Co., then sold them after two months at a 100 % profit.

The company bought the shares at the same $ 2,000 per, plus annualized interest.

In February, Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan bought shares in Jasper worth US$ 200 million.

Fitzgerald had also bought shares of the pharmaceutical companies Merck and Bayer and of the health insurer Humana.

Though its shares are up 25 percent since Cramer's recommendation, investors who bought shares of Callaway had to have guts to stick out the ride.

It's the second time in three years that the conglomerate has bought shares of companies in the pharmacy business.