Sentences with phrase «by weaker companies»

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Combine that with weak commodity prices, flat global trade and the governance risk associated with companies in many of these countries, and safety - minded investors are perhaps best served by limiting their exposure to the grouping at this time.

Still, sales growth at its parent company Yum Brands was weaker than expected, hurt by a chicken shortage at KFC chain restaurants in the U.K. and Ireland.

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

Priceline shares tanked by 8 percent Wednesday after the company reported a bookings miss for its second quarter and weak guidance for the current quarter.

In addition to the battle for control, which has pitted Dauman against 93 - year - old controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari, the company said that advertising sales have been weak, and they are expected to be down by 4 % for the quarter.

That's because weak companies die and people lose their jobs when tested by stronger competition.

Moorhead's post prompted plenty of well - deserved bashing of Intel's mobile failings and a recounting of how the once dominant company of the «Wintel» era had been disrupted by smartphones running weaker, slower but cheaper and lower - powered ARM - based chips.

Other food producers Smucker and Hormel Foods were down as well, but these companies were already bogged down by weak earnings earlier in the day.

Robert Stone, an analyst with Cowen and Company, thinks that board sales will decline by 5 % in 2015 because of a weak U.S. education - related spending.

When a company reports weak results, Jim Cramer is frequently asked by investors how to price that disappointment into the market.

That would be bad news for the torrid earnings growth being enjoyed by US companies, since the large multinational corporations with heavy weighting in stock indexes have had exports boosted by a weak currency.

A significant share of the corporate debt in stressed economies is now owed by companies with weak debt servicing capacity and this could negatively affect bank balance sheets and cut into profits, it added.

The company's results have been pressured by weak Russian and Ukrainian beer demand, where an ongoing geopolitical crisis has pressured sales for Carlsberg and some of its rivals.

Concerns were fanned by suppliers reporting weak demand for high - end handsets, another sign the smartphone boom that made Apple the most - valuable company is ebbing.

Multinationals like British American Tobacco (bti) and Diageo (deo), which should benefit from a weaker pound, have run up, while domestically focused companies, especially in consumer discretionary companies and real estate, have been clobbered by investors who fear a British recession.

Nov 7 - Wall Street added to losses in early afternoon trading on Tuesday, with the S&P and the Dow weighed down by financial stocks and the Nasdaq slipping on weak forecast from travel services company, Priceline.

It's a long running debate: is Apple's device - first, cloud - second approach to artificial intelligence a brilliant and differentiating maneuver or simply a weak attempt to keep up constrained by the company's larger business aims that prioritize hardware over software and services?

Property trust company Col - onial First State Industrial (CIP) is recommended a buy by stockbroker JD Carmichael & Co due to a weaker price on the bourse.

Further gains were mitigated, however, by continued fallout in the company's top - grossing PREVNAR vaccine franchise -LRB--8 %), overseas generic erosion on ENBREL -LRB--20 %), and weak domestic sales of fading blockbuster VIAGRA -LRB--17 %).

For all the reasons listed above, the correlation between these two factors is actually very weak, as demonstrated by Tim Koller, Jack Murrin, and Thomas E. Copeland in Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (p. 80).

Those results, though, were overshadowed by the company «s weak 2018 earnings guidance.

The hearings didn't reveal new information about Facebook's practices, but they suggested that many members of Congress are ready to move on from the status quo of weak privacy protections and unfettered data collection by companies in the U.S. Below, we break down some of the top hits, misses, and unanswered questions from the hearings.

That could be all - important for consumers, because without the deal, AT&T and Time Warner separately could be left weaker, compared to competitors such as Comcast and Disney, and less willing to deploy new services or green - light new movies and TV series — an argument made by the companies and analysts covering the sector.

The consumers have already chosen, by turning away from these companies — that is what makes them weak, infirm, aging.

For instance, one approach is to use gender diversity as a screen by minimizing exposure to companies with poor gender diversity records including weak policies, poor supply chain safety records or involvement in the adult entertainment industry.

The main drivers of the first - half performance were solid growth in the combined New Zealand properties, offset by reduced turnover in the international business, continued competitive and economic pressures in Darwin and a weaker Australian dollar, the company said.

Meanwhile, given its weaker balance sheet and where oil and gas prices are these days, the company raised $ 67 million in cash during the quarter by selling three non-core assets, which boosted its cash balance to $ 128 million.

So weak results in Q2 were helped by the decisionmaking of company management regarding closing down future revenue streams (projects).

The company reported 5 % constant currency revenue growth, which was admittedly a little bit weaker than we had expected, but was more than offset by a 13 % constant currency decline in overhead expense.

Over time, the stock market has reached new records, powered by economic and earnings growth.2 We expect both to continue: The domestic economy is picking up a little speed, helped by improving growth in the rest of the world, and company earnings have benefited from better sales, the weaker dollar and still - low interest rates.

UK stocks (as measured by the FTSE 100 Index) offer the highest dividend yield of any major region (as measured by the MSCI World Index).1 UK valuations are the cheapest relative to the rest of the world in 15 years.2 What's more, FTSE 100 Index companies with more than 70 % of their revenues from abroad stand to benefit from the weaker pound.

It did, however, «raise a concern that the weak governance structure at the company undermined the credibility of the claim by Tesla that the acquisition of SolarCity made sense,» he said.

We have to take into account the whole company of saints and wicked, the once - born and the twice - born, the strong of spirit and the weak, the kindly and the ruthless, those who have saved their souls by withdrawal from the world, and those who have assumed the moral risks of ecclesiastical office and public trust.

This bitterly suppressed people, this company of the lost, this weak, diffuse body suddenly given unity and entity by Yahweh himself, all break forth into a spontaneous hymn of praise, more shout than song, more chant than anthem, more cry of ecstasy than artistic creation (15:21, cf. 15:1):

These bitterly suppressed people in their ragged procession, remembering now the word of Moses conveying the Word of Another, in overwhelming realization that only this Word could effect so glorious and impossible an outcome; this company of the lost, the enslaved, the dying, now found and freed and given life by God; this weak, diffuse body of humanity suddenly made almost terrifyingly aware of its unity and entity as created out of God's unfathomable purpose - these people in this company, in this body, all break forth into a spontaneous hymn of praise, more shout than song, more chant than anthem, more cry of ecstasy than conscious composition:

The Nestlé Policy and Instructions for Implementation of the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes are weaker than the Code, permitting 90 % of the violations of the Code and Resolutions reported by IBFAN, according to the company's own assessment.

By Sean Ryan An Illinois steel company is suspended from Wisconsin work after delivering weak bridge girders to a state Department of Transportation project in Wausau.

«The acquisitions within the pharma industry are symptomatic of many companies with relatively weak pipelines that are acquiring innovation by consolidating with larger companies to reduce expenses.»

Revenue in the early part of the period was boosted by pent - up demand following a «very weak October,» while the company may have decided to concentrate all end - of - season clearance in January, leading to a smaller proportion of sales being at full price than a year earlier, they wrote in a note.

The company posted on Thursday a loss in the fiscal third quarter, hurt by weak sales during the all - important holiday quarter...

In contrast, a bond issued by a smaller company with weaker financial strength typically trades at a higher spread relative to Treasuries.

As an aside, you can stay clear of a lot of blowups by avoiding companies that have strong earnings and weak or negative free cash flow.

Three lending rules make it difficult or illegal for companies to make money by approving people with very weak credentials.

The oil drilling company has been hurt by a weak market and its shares have plunged more than 50 % from their 52 - week high.

People who believe that they can earn an abnormal return by researching companies will argue that the market is weak form efficient.

Why stack the deck even further against yourself by taking on a financially weak company?

Companies that cut their dividends may be entering a financially weaker state that, in many cases, is accompanied by a drop in the stock price.

If you donâ $ ™ t mind taking on even more risk, you can spice up your portfolio with high - yield bonds issued by companies with weaker balance sheets.

Obamanomics: Coal - mining companies being driven to financial ruin by costly regulations and weak economy — firms terminating employee positions to survive

The exchange is «self - regulated» by lawyers and accountants who profit from the companies they put on the market, and has a history of weak enforcement against those who break its rules.