Sentences with phrase «business less dividends»

Components include common stock, paid - in - capital (amounts invested not involving a stock purchase) and retained earnings (cumulative earnings since inception of the business less dividends paid to stockholders).

Not exact matches

The less capital a business requires to run, the more attractive it is to an owner because the more money he or she can extract in the form of dividends to enjoy life or reinvest in other projects.

At less than 14x our estimate of normalized EPS and with over a 3 % dividend yield, we believe the current valuation is attractive for this good collection of businesses.

If GEICO had earned less money in 1982 but had paid an additional $ 1 million in dividends, our reported earnings would have been larger despite the poorer business results.

Below the 20 % ownership figure, however, only our share of dividends paid by the underlying business units is included in our accounting numbers; undistributed earnings of such less - than - 20 % - owned businesses are totally ignored.

Fortunately, family businesses are in a unique position to take a longer view, as they are often less driven by the pressures of quarterly results and shareholder dividends.

As much as Ive critisised Wenger a great deal and I still feel he has been fatally remiss in certain area's BUT and there is always a but, the real pproblem as you have so rightly cited is Stan Kroenke AND a board who are far less concerned with the club winning trophies are far more concerned with running a business that pays millions in dividends into thier greedy pockets!!!

The total 2007 dividend will be increased by 30 per cent with a further annual total increase of no less than 20 per cent in each of the following two years, reflecting the Board's belief in the business..

Tonight on Nightly Business Report, why a rise in bond yields could make some dividend paying companies more attractive to investors, not less.

He argues dividends can signal management's confidence in the business and its earnings outlook, and there is evidence to suggest that companies with strict dividend policies are less likely to squander their profits on ill - advised acquisitions.

When the inflation rate is less than the rate of dividend you are receiving, then you are investing in a good business.

You'll also want to buy few, if any, «concept stocks» — junior industrials that have a business plan but have not yet established a business, much less made a profit or paid any dividends.

The businesses have good prospects for growing NAV after adding back dividends, by not less than 10 % compounded annually over the next three - to - seven years.

Those who truly understand markets know that yield is an allocation of free cash flow, and that many businesses can't control their free cash flow, so dividends are less than fully certain.

Dividend stocks have a reputation for being less vulnerable to downturns in the stock market, and their mature businesses also tend to be more resistant to recessions and other economic headwinds that can send more volatile high - growth stocks to much larger losses.

Below the 20 % ownership figure, however, only our share of dividends paid by the underlying business units is included in our accounting numbers; undistributed earnings of such less - than - 20 % - owned businesses are totally ignored.

If GEICO had earned less money in 1982 but had paid an additional $ 1 million in dividends, our reported earnings would have been larger despite the poorer business results.

Nevertheless, their deleveraging and reversion to safer but less growth - oriented businesses will probably pressure them to again pay attractive dividends.

That said, mature businesses with a history of rising dividends are often less volatile.

Blending the known past and estimated future in this fashion should allow us to home in on what kind of overall business growth Realty Income is capable of, which should more or less translate into dividend growth.

Whether the dividend ETF will behave similarly during a more normal and less volatile business cycle remains to be seen.

Hey DF I completely understand your move, GE is a turnaround story, a fine business but for dividend growth investors there are so many opportunities that are less risky AND more lucrative.

It's cheap (taking the midpoint of its guidance it's on less than 5.5 x earnings), it has got a strong balance sheet (net debt / EBITDA was 0.8 x at end - 2010), it has a stable business model (it is the biggest distributor of fruit and vegetables in Europe, with a reach that enables it to supply multiples across different countries), it has a decent dividend yield (circa 4.5 %) and it is spitting out cash (free cash flow for the twelve months ended 30 June 2011 amounted to $ 29.0 m — that's nearly a quarter of the group's market cap).

Second, less than 90 % of the partnership's gross income can consist of dividends, interest, payments with respect to securities loans, or gains from the sale or other disposition of stock or securities or foreign currencies, or other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock securities or currencies.