Sentences with phrase «companies profiting off»

The «evil» in this whole fiasco are companies profiting off YOUR personal information without consent and without compensation.

The study that claimed Green Coffee Bean Extract could help you lose 17 pounds in 22 weeks without diet & exercise was actually funded by the company profiting off the sale of Green Coffee Bean Extract.

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Despite returning to profit growth last year, investors sold off the company's stock after Exxon reported fourth - quarter results that fell short of Wall Street's expectations.

It didn't cost the company in actual stock price or value, but many hold the view that the legal troubles took Microsoft's focus off innovation, costing it untold potential profits, specifically in search engines, and permanently damaging its reputation.

«If I did a remarkable job, I would add a couple million dollars to the bottom line of a company that's throwing off billions a quarter in profit,» he remembers thinking.

However, the company can make a higher profit margin off look - a-like versions of products — which some customers actually prefer.

After all, ideally, companies collect their receivables in 30 days and pay off their own related bills only 15 or 30 days later, once they factor in the profits from their investment float.

Lee then works off the assumption that Bloomberg (the company) makes 40 % in profit on $ 9 billion in revenue, citing unnamed sources familiar with the firm's financials.

He kicks off 2018 and his third year as CEO of the health care company with a stock that's up nearly 70 %, strong earnings and profits, and a strategic acquisition.

He held on to it for nearly 20 years — making a juicy profit off of it when the domain company Network Solutions bought it for $ 1.35 million.

Apple is siphoning off nearly all of the profits in the smartphone industry, hindering other companies» ability to innovate or compete.

Tesla shed 5.1 percent, extending losses from Wednesday after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk cut off analysts asking about the company's profit potential, despite promises that...

And, Time Warner (twx) is also likely to post a dip in profit, as the company contends with a strong U.S. dollar amid activist pressure to spin - off HBO and the return of Fox takeover rumors.

Customers, the reports say, aren't turned off by the iPhone X's $ 999 starting price tag and that Apple is on the cusp of a «super-cycle» that could see the company generate historic profits.

I've worked with a company that had such a convoluted profit - sharing system that neither the employees nor their managers understood how it worked, and most everyone felt ripped off.

Ironically, Ackman's 3 - year - long «for profit species of holy war,» as Parloff dubs the investor's extended Herbalife siege, has forced the company to shake off many of its most unsavory operations, like its dogged lead generation businesses.

(A major accounting error last summer forced the company to take big write - offs in the fourth quarter, eating into profits.)

What a difference a year makes: On Thursday, the company turned in a quarterly earnings report that blew the doors off most analysts» expectations, racking up its second surprise profit in a row.

Meanwhile, other questions required a level of analysis that sent Hotze and Watts off to perform some homework (for example, «Describe your company's pricing and profit margins, if relevant, on a product - by - product basis»).

Macy's comparable - store sales have fallen for seven straight quarters, and the company has turned to selling off real estate and consolidating as a way of keeping profits up.

Last, companies with high cash balances can also return money to you directly by paying off debt, and thus increasing profits; buying back outstanding shares; and even paying a dividend.

It's widely diversified across almost every conceivable industry, is largely immune to the sorts of technological changes that could still wipe Google off the map due to fact profits come from selling stuff like ketchup, jewelry, insurance, furniture, railroad freight services, and more (though management is smart enough to realize this so the technology giant has been making investments in everything from medical to energy companies).

Someone who would like to invest in the company, and expect a return based on profits, or some future payback, such as part - time software development, or other work, in the off season.

Companies that use steel and aluminum in their products say tariffs would raise their costs, eating into profits or forcing them to raise prices or lay off workers.

The company breaks even on the hardware but actually makes a profit off of the Kindle Fire once consumers enter its ecosystem and begin buying books, music, movies and other content.

The company's sales were down 39 % year - over-year due in part to shuttered lines and in part to fewer project sales, but despite $ 18 million in restructuring and asset impairment charges, First Solar still pulled off a positive operating margin and a net profit of $ 52 million.

«After the sell off, NetDragon won't be holding the business any more, so technically NetDragon won't be profiting from any growth from the company.»

A large secondary transaction would likely weaken the pressure from any existing investors for the company to soon go public so that they can finally profit off their bet.

Imagine you are a slimeball executive trying to swindle thousands of hardworking, honest, decent shareholders out of their money by siphoning off funds from the company or overstating profits.

It started with a social media campaign to #deleteUber over claims that the company attempted to profit off the backs of protesting taxi drivers — largely unfair but which caused more than 200,000 users to abandon the app.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) earnings will also be in focus after Chief Executive Elon Musk on Wednesday cut off analysts asking about profit potential in the company's first - quarter's earnings call, sending shares down 4 % in after - hours trading, despite promises that production of the troubled Model 3 electric car was on track.

There are large stock market companies like Procter & Gamble, which has had meaningful employee share ownership along with profit - sharing for more than a century, and Southwest Airlines, which has both employee share ownership and an annual cash profit sharing plan that in 2015 paid $ 620 million in profits to all employees, adding 15 % on top of their wages and salaries.4 Divisions of stock market companies are sometimes spun off and sold to workers through ESOPs: the 100 % employee - owned Scot Forge in Clinton, Wisconsin, and the 100 % employee - owned Houchens in Bowling Green, Kentucky, are examples.

On one level, Apotheker's announcement that HP will explore selling or spinning off its PC division is exactly what some analysts have been urging the company to do, as a way to increase overall profit margins by moving out of the relatively low - profit PC business.

Nonetheless, the ride - hailing company determined it was best to turn off its price multiplier for rides to and from the airport so as not to look like it was profiting during the unrest.

Let's start off simply and assume that after earning $ 3 million, the company distributes all profits to shareholders and then closes down.

A crop of non-GAAP financial metrics are useful to understand why normal accounting doesn't do a great job at showing off future growth, and profits, of companies that spend heavily to acquire customers, and then earn revenues off that customer in regular intervals for the future.

It did have a short - lived benefit in January when more than 200,000 people deleted their Uber accounts, because many unfairly accused the company of attempting to profit off the backs of taxi drivers protesting President Donald Trump's travel ban.

If it worsens, Europe could face the widespread decline in prices known as deflation, which hurts companies» profits and leads them to lay off workers.

Excluding the Tumblr write - off and other adjustments, the company's operating profit fell 64 percent.

People accused the company of trying to profit off the backs of the taxi drivers by taking advantage of the demand for rides.

Other mooted policies included a one - off tax on profits retained overseas by US companies, plans to combat their use of low - tax jurisdictions and limits on the deduction of debt interest from their tax bills.

2014's 13 % NOPAT growth was just the next step in a long trend of Aetna's 12 % compounded annual profit growth since the company's spin - off in 2000.

Indeed, profit growth for companies in the MSCI All Country World ex-US Index is expected to far outpace profit growth in the S&P 500 Index over the next 12 months.6 This is coming off of a low base.

Immediately, accusations that the ride - hail company was attempting to profit off protesting cab drivers by making it cheaper for consumers to hail a ride began to crop up on Twitter.

Driving hard into value added ingredients has paid off for Irish food group Kerry as the company faces off tougher currency exposure in 2003 to see a steady rise in sales and operating profit.

Group earnings before interest and tax are forecast to fall around 6.5 per cent to $ 836 million, in line with the company's -5 to -7 per cent guidance, and group net profit (before one - off items) is expected to fall 7.5 per cent to around $ 516 million.

«The sad thing for Australia is that international companies have production lines massively larger than our own, so our duopolists can easily import just the off - runs of some of the other assembly lines and sell them cheaper but at a higher profit, than our producers can produce,» he told the Financial Review.

This law is also commonly known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or simply Affordable Care Act (ACA) which regulates health insurance companies; in which some would tend to rip off clients for profit.

New Yorkers, especially those laid off at companies like Sikorsky and Welch Allyn, deserve to know if their Senator is getting richer at their expense by betting against their future and profiting from her support of disastrous economic policies.»

Reinstating this tax on buybacks would allow Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature to tax some of the windfall profits companies are making off the tax bill and protect New Yorkers from devastating federal cuts to health care and education.»