«Even after the 2009 financial crisis made it plain the U.S. economy had entered a period of stagnation, Canadians seemed more interested in the far - off and more uncertain prospects of China, India and Brazil — economies characterized
by high growth and large populations but also formidable market access barriers,» wrote Laura Dawson, president of Dawson Strategic, in a recent report for the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
Companies become too large and succumb to the «law of large numbers»: competition is attracted
by the high growth rates, or they get disrupted by new technology.
The valuation is inflated
by the high growth rates seen in the Indian market.
For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not
by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.
Below is a sampling of industries, arranged
by highest growth and lowest capital intensity, culled from data provided by independent research firm IBISWorld.
Not exact matches
Cramer thought he could avoid getting hurt
by taking on a
high -
growth deep - value strategy,
by only buying the
highest quality companies for his charitable trust.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our
growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment
by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders
by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending
by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to
higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
The AGS is meant to boost innovation
by improving the way the government supports
high -
growth companies.
Today's
high valuations in a time of tepid economic
growth are particularly vexing for professional investors constrained
by certain rules, says James Harper, a portfolio manager for the Templeton Global Balanced Fund.
However, the Bank is projecting a return to
growth in the second half of 2015, led
by the non-energy sectors of the economy: «Outside the energy - producing regions, consumer confidence remains
high and labour markets continue to improve.
Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of
growth in Social Security
by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending
by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below
growth in GDP (albeit from the
higher base established
by the new laws).
The revenue
growth was driven
by favorable price and
high - teens
growth in electronics, which offset the impact of order choppiness.
Moreover, the rate of
growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run
by women has been
higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.
Persistently
high unemployment and weak pay
growth have kept spending
by consumers weak.
Understanding the Landscape: Access to Capital
by High -
Growth Women - Owned Businesses, research commissioned
by the National Women's Business Council, recently released that female entrepreneurs start companies with 50 percent less capital than male entrepreneurs.
By this, I generally mean a shared Google spreadsheet (s) with a
high - level multi-month performance summary, which allows all stakeholders to «dig down» and explore all the drivers that affect business
growth.
Increasingly, that
growth will be driven
by millennials, the oldest of whom have lifted the annual birthrate for women 30 to 34 to the
highest level since 1964, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
To be considered a success, the Fed needs its rate hike to be followed next year
by continued U.S.
growth, continued low unemployment, and, perhaps most in doubt, a turn
higher in inflation.
Lease results benefited from fleet
growth but were partially offset
by higher maintenance costs on certain older model year vehicles and weather - related expenses.
Meanwhile, the Labor Department is expected to report that U.S. producer prices rose 0.3 % last month, which is slightly
higher than the previous month's
growth, and the consumer price index also likely improved
by 0.3 % in May.
On its website, Square said the changes were the result of
high -
growth merchants feeling constrained
by the limits:
The company has come under pressure from outside shareholders to separate its
higher -
growth assets — notably its stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group — from its struggling core search and e-mail businesses, but such a split would be complicated
by the fact that it could land the company with a large tax bill.
That ongoing debate revolves around whether the lack of women in
high -
growth entrepreneurship is partly attributable to the fact that only 18 percent of undergraduate computer science degrees are earned
by women.
Many
high -
growth companies fuelled
by investment dollars were spending as if they were about to raise another big round, he says.
«Shell's strong earnings this quarter were underpinned
by higher oil and gas prices, the continued
growth and very good performance of our Integrated Gas business, and improved profitability in our Upstream business,» Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden said in a statement.
Many commentators go on to conclude that the
higher incomes generated
by high commodity prices have given Canadians a temporary reprieve from the problem of low productivity
growth.
Q1 2018 underlying revenue was EUR 12.0 million (or 8.5 %)
higher than Q1 2017 at constant FX reflecting new revenue in aeronautical mobility from the entry into service of SES - 15, further adoption of Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) services
by the U.S. Government and additional
growth in Global Government.
The Journal added that,
by cooling its stance on debt, Beijing is hinting that it would rather fuel
growth with
higher debt than pursue austerity measures.
More than two dozen domestic solar mounting equipment manufacturers and their domestic suppliers told the ITC, in a letter sent in August, that the tariffs requested
by Suniva would more than double the price of solar panels in the U.S. and undercut the cost - competitiveness of solar and reversing its
high growth trajectory.
In the October report, there were five: stronger - than - expected U.S.
growth;
higher - than - expected oil prices; the possibility that weak business investment had altered the economy's potential; slower
growth in less advanced economies such as China; and a tilt to saving from spending
by Canada's heavily indebted households.
According to research analysts at investment bank Versant Partners Inc., U.S. software expenditures in the third quarter of 2011 grew
by 6.6 % over the same quarter in the previous year, the
highest growth rate in the last four - and - a-half-years.
They also need to show
high -
growth potential — evidenced
by successfully raising at least $ 345,000 in funding from a qualified U.S. investor or attracting grants of at least $ 100,000 from federal, state, or local governments.
Should world GDP grow anywhere close to the IMF's medium term forecast in the
high 3 percent range, oil demand
growth will rise
by closer to 2 million b / d than 1 million b / d
by our reckoning.
Expectations had run
high for Twitter since the messaging service, which for years had fought to revive
growth in users, surprised Wall Street in the second quarter
by signing up 24 percent more people globally.
Those Millennials are one key reason Plunkett is
high on the
growth prospects for the residential housing market — an industry that was severely hit
by the Great Recession.
Our proprietary installed base analysis shows that the installed base grew
by over 35 % last year to 600mn and we believe that, with
growth in the installed base headed towards 715mn
by the end 2017, an average replacement rate of around 30 months, and
high retention rates, units could grow 9 % to 232.7 mn in 2017.
The top beneficiary of the Trump rally so far has been the banking industry, with bets driven
by the potential for
higher lending rates and stronger economic
growth in the coming months, not to mention the president - elect's pledge to reject any new financial regulations.
In the base year used in the five - year
growth calculation (e.g., 2012), any companies with revenue of less than $ 200,000 will have their revenue for that period lifted to $ 200,000 for the purpose of calculating five - year
growth that is not grossly exaggerated
by immaterial differences in the base - year revenues of otherwise equal candidates (for instance, a company that grows from $ 1 to $ 2 million would have a
higher growth rate than a company that grows from $ 2 to $ 3 million).
To justify the self - storage expansion, many industry insiders begin
by citing urban
growth, as well as the ascendancy of condo living, which discourages clutter, and
higher rents.
In the base year used in the two - year
growth calculation (e.g., 2015), any companies with revenue of less than $ 200,000 will have their revenue for that period lifted to $ 200,000 for the purpose of calculating two - year
growth that is not grossly exaggerated
by immaterial differences in the base - year revenues of otherwise equal candidates (for instance, a company that grows from $ 1 to $ 2 million would have a
higher growth rate than a company that grows from $ 2 to $ 3 million).
That's why a brightening economic picture in 2013 (U.S. GDP grew
by an average of 3.4 % in the second half of 2013 and job
growth was the
highest since the end of the recession) helped improve TravelCenters» performance and stock last year.
The city also has a fairly large
high -
growth company density at 191.4 — that's the number of companies out of 100,000 with annual revenues more than $ 2 million (and growing
by 20 percent over a three - year period).
Meanwhile, margins of its more complex, specialty products, the group's designated
growth drivers, have been squeezed
by higher raw materials prices.
But this weighting significantly reduces the average; if you weight
by the number of years you find a
higher growth rate above 90 percent.
In the «future» category, the report said New York had the
highest projected GDP
growth of any city
by the year 2022.
The discovery of
high - quality surf breaks
by the surfing community boosts economic
growth in nearby areas, according to a study of 5000 surf breaks round the world
by the University of Sydney.
They found that the discovery of a
high - quality break can raise
growth by 2.2 percentage points a year.
In September 2012, Kraft Foods made a major move
by spinning off its
high growth candy business into a separate company.
LONDON, May 1 - BP's profits surged in the first three months of the year to their
highest since mid-2014, driven
by a recovery in oil and gas prices and rapid
growth in production.
Many of the
high -
growth software companies that have been transforming the tech industry since their founding have been waiting to capitalize until much longer than we've previously seen — although I expect this tide will start to turn
by early Q2, and we should see many of these
high quality companies reveal their financial strength to the public world.