Sentences with phrase «buy other firms»

One of the first announcements Ozonian made after taking over from Stephen Bauer, who resigned suddenly in late August, was, «PREA's vision is to encourage and assist affiliates to merge and buy other firms, thereby expanding the PREA network, increasing market share, and, most important, helping solve the profitability problem that besets many real estate firms.»

In the coming years, by using the money they are raking in, those few firms will continue to buy other firms.

That gives it plenty of room to buy other firms or expand geographically.

Instead of making and selling goods, these companies buy other firms or infrastructure assets and either hold them long term or turn them around for an eventual sale.

«We investigated all the options of buying other firms and setting up offices, but we just felt it was better to go another direction,» Ford says.

Not exact matches

In other sectors, Deutsche Bank analysts ranked the Italian multinational Leonardo Finmeccanica and the insurance firm Prudential as «buy» - rated companies.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

He first bought up insurance companies and then a whole host of other kinds of companies, including retailer Nebraska Furniture Mart, See's Candies, catalog company Oriental Trading, ice cream scooper Dairy Queen, underwear maker Fruit of the Loom, railroad firm Burlington Northern, and, most recently in partnership with Brazilian investment firm 3G, ketchup maker Heinz.

So when Daren Metropoulos bought the 12 - bedroom house in 2016, it was the private equity firm Rizvi — through a shell company called «Mansion Holdings» — on the other side of the $ 100 million deal, according to the public records.

Guinness was thought to have purchased its own stock during the offering period to keep the price up and to have indemnified against loss other firms who bought it on Guinness's behalf.

A source close to the deal has confirmed that Wind's chairman and CEO, Tony Lacavera, has arranged to buy out VimpelCom's majority stake with financing from Toronto private equity firm West Face Capital and others.

On the other hand, another survey by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch showed that 65 % of firms polled said they would use the new gains to pay down debt, 46 % would buy back stock, and just 35 % would spend on capital expenditures.

After 1969, Berkshire became Buffett's investment vehicle and he used revenue from the textile firm to begin buying other companies such as National Indemnity insurance and See's Candy.

Alabbar has also made other investments in new technology and e-commerce — buying a stake in regional logistics firm Aramex last year and is in the process of setting up a high - end Middle East online fashion retailer with Yoox Net - a-Porter after buying a 4 % stake in the Italian - based online retailer for 100 million euros last April.

Others bought stocks in financial firms that would later be saved by the federal government.

«As a liquidity provider, HRT understands that other firms may be faster than it is, may have better information than it does, and may simply be better at pricing securities than it is, and it must factor that into the displayed prices at which it is willing to buy and sell.

Small private equity firms and other investors have begun circling small businesses that sell on Amazon, looking to buy up and combine the most attractive, several brokers told The Information.

Laidlaw put together a syndicate of 25 other investment - banking firms, which bought the remaining 755,000 shares, also for $ 5.98 a share, which brought them in a total of $ 392,600.

Some firms buy on the first business day of each month, while others purchase stock on the 15th of each month.

Unlike some other investments Ackman has made, the Nike stake was passive, meaning he didn't buy it to push for executive or strategic changes at the firm.

Unlike many other metals firms, which actually own the metal you buy and hold it on your behalf, the metal you buy from the Hard Assets Alliance is yours and yours alone.

The private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management bought the company in 2007 for $ 118 million and rolled it up with other gun manufacturers into a conglomerate called Freedom Group.

It's usually the first time that people get to see financial statements and other details about the firm, which can be used to evaluate if the stock is worth buying.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

But at the same time, Japanese firms poured billions into the Manhattan property market, buying Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building and several other properties.

You can buy such funds and ETFs directly from any number of investment firms, including biggies like Fidelity, Schwab and Vanguard, all of which sell their own funds and ETFs or those of other firms, such as iShares, or both.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

As increasing amounts of personal, business, and other forms of information are collected, firms are using computers to harness this data, and are creating machine - learning predictive software for various purposes, including helping consumers make better buying decisions.

Then, the US Commerce Department last week banned ZTE (ZTCOF), which sells smartphones and other telecommunications equipment around the world, from buying product components from American firms for seven years.

One advantage of buying from an online brokerage firm is that you can be sure to get some brokers that might sell these treasury online without no commission at all, while on the other hand you could be charged.

She also went on to work at a number of other Wall Street firms including Robertson Stephens, Punk Ziegel, Moss Adams Capital and Keybank, advising healthcare and related company founders, senior executives, and corporate boards on a wide range of strategic corporate finance transactions, including buy - side and sell - side M&A advisory and equity and debt capital raising transactions.

The firms that have shut down have in many cases moved overseas, or diversified into other product lines, or obtained huge tax write - offs with which to buy other companies or simply invested at high interest instead of improving productive capacity.

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The charges include allegations that Kruger, Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland and previously convicted Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio — who died in prison in January — received bribes and other largesse to help two competing health - care companies buy hospitals, and direct state funds to those firms.

Others whisper that the U.S. biotech firm Monsanto released a genetically modified strain of the bacterium they bought from a Brazilian company called Allelyx so it could sweep in with a cure.

I'm glad I didn't end up at that consulting firm, assembling presentations to advise large companies on whether to buy other large companies.

Others, however, also make a mistake by buying a too firm mattress.

• «As iPads and other devices become more versatile and popular, more people are playing games or watching videos, rather than buying and reading e-books,» says Michael Norris, an analyst with Simba Information, a market research firm.

A licensed individual or firm that executes orders to buy or sell mutual funds or other securities for the public and usually gets a commission for doing so.

If management / board thinks the price of the stock is overvalued, they may look at other companies to buy that are reasonably priced or cheap that will make their firm more useful.

HFT players (quant firms with more capital and computing power than any retail trader) program the algorithms to buy or sell a currency pair (or other instrument).

Many but not all brokerage firms are also dealers, or broker - dealers, meaning they buy and sell securities from each other and hold some of these securities in inventory.

I have learned that new prop traders get buying power and technology from their firms but, depend on other traders when it comes to technique and strategy.

After 1969, Berkshire became Buffett's investment vehicle and he used revenue from the textile firm to begin buying other companies such as National Indemnity insurance and See's Candy.

With the help of brokers and other firms specializing in buying or selling bonds, you can purchase both new bonds that are issued by organizations or governments and also bonds that were issued earlier and are now in the secondary market.

On the other hand, if you've bought a call because you really want to own the underlying, you can exercise your right just as the term expires, subject to the exercise cut - off policies of your brokerage firm.

MLPs on brokerage firm Stifel's buy list include Green Plains Partners (GPP, $ 18, 11.0 %), which owns and operates storage tanks, terminals and other facilities for Green Plains Inc., the world's second - largest owner of ethanol production plants.

You can buy such funds and ETFs directly from any number of investment firms, including biggies like Fidelity, Schwab and Vanguard, all of which sell their own funds and ETFs or those of other firms, such as iShares, or both.

So the real shift is that the client buys the investment «product» from the advisor and the advisor's firm, not from the mutual fund company or other asset managers.