Sentences with phrase «company by both stockholders»

The D / E ratio is determined by dividing the total debt obligations of a company by the stockholders» equity.

Not exact matches

The settlement doesn't cover claims by Steve Wynn's ex-wife, Elaine Wynn, who has been trying to get out from under a 2010 stockholder agreement that ties her up 10 percent stake in the company.

The prospectus reveals the company's most recent valuation, as well as the number of shares owned by its executive officers, directors, and the likely number of shares held by stockholders with at least a 5 % stake.

The San Francisco - based company said in a regulatory filing on Friday it would sell 25.7 million Class A common shares, while selling stockholder Start Small Foundation, a charitable fund created by Dorsey, would sell about 1.35 million.

Instead of a public sale of shares by the company, insiders and early stockholders will be able to directly sell their shares on an exchange.

This structural arrangement can thus produce tensions between stockholder and the corporation — stockholders either required to keep «investing» in a going concern indirectly by paying its taxes or, conversely, pressuring the corporation to distribute more of its profits and thus potentially slowing the company's growth.

The ruling gave some much needed clarity to stockholders concerning the fate of companies that benefit from the higher number of insured brought about by the Affordable Care Act.

The Company's issuance of shares of common stock, including the additional shares that will be authorized if the proposal is adopted, may dilute the equity ownership position of current holders of common stock and may be made without stockholder approval, unless otherwise required by applicable laws or NYSE regulations.

The Hewlett - Packard Company Board of Directors (the «Board») has made these materials available to you over the Internet or delivered paper copies of these materials to you by mail in connection with HP's annual meeting of stockholders, which will take place on Wednesday, March 23, 2011.

Stockholders or others may contact the Board of Directors of Franklin Resources, Inc. (the «Company»), the independent directors or any individual directors by sending a written communication appropriately addressed to:

The Plan was adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company on, and effective as of, March 18, 2010, subject to approval by the Company's stockholders at the Company's 2010 annual meeting of stockholders.

Under Section 162 (m), the amount of compensation earned by the Chief Executive Officer, and any executive whose compensation is required to be reported to stockholders by reason of such executive being among the three other most highly - paid executive officers of the Company (excluding the Chief Financial Officer) in the year for which a deduction is claimed by the Company (including its subsidiaries) is limited to $ 1 million per person, except that compensation that is performance - based will be excluded for purposes of calculating the amount of compensation subject to the $ 1 million limitation.

Pursuant to the policy, as revised in February 2009, at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director has served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided by the lesser of (i) the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant or (ii) such number of RSUs as the Board may determine based on additional criteria such as business conditions and / or company performance, outside director compensation practices at peer companies and advice from outside compensation consultants.

Common Equity - Common equity are a measure of how much equity is held by common stockholders of a company or corporation.

Executive Management Bonus Plan (the «Bonus Plan») promotes the Company's interests and the interests of its stockholders by providing executive officers of the Company, who are largely responsible for the management, growth and / or success of the Company and its affiliates, with incentives to assist the Company in meeting and exceeding its business goals.

Under the 2017 Plan, a change in control is defined to include (1) the acquisition by any person or company of more than 50 % of the combined voting power of our then outstanding stock, (2) a merger, consolidation, or similar transaction in which our stockholders immediately before the transaction do not own, directly or indirectly, more than 50 % of the combined voting power of the surviving entity (or the parent of the surviving entity), (3) a sale, lease, exclusive license, or other disposition of all or substantially all of our assets other than to an entity more than 50 % of the combined voting power of which is owned by our stockholders, and (4) an unapproved change in the majority of the board of directors.

However, these provisions may have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a merger or acquisition of our company by means of a tender offer, a proxy contest or other takeover attempt that a stockholder might consider in its best interest, including attempts that might result in a premium over the prevailing market price for the shares of Class A common stock held by stockholders.

The Company recently amended its By - Laws to allow stockholders owning 25 % or more of the Company's common stock to call a special meeting of stockholders.

These provisions are not intended to make us immune from takeovers and will apply even if the offer may be considered beneficial by some stockholders, but could delay or prevent an acquisition that our board of directors determines is not in the best interests of our company and our stockholders.

As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.

«A broad coalition of investors wants companies to tell stockholders and the public more about so - called «dark money» spent both in campaigns and on lobbying by groups that use corporate money and don't say where it comes from,» Welsh of Si2 said.

In particular, companies will no longer be required to identify 10 % stockholders by name, or to provide detailed information on the use of offering proceeds.

They snap up struggling publicly traded companies, with the help of some debt financing, spend a few years turning them around by restructuring or shedding businesses and then they sell them back to public stockholders, ideally at a gain.

Gannett CEO Robert Dickey said that by withholding their votes, Tribune Publishing stockholders would send a «clear message» to Tribune's board that it should engage in talks with the company.

The proposal, submitted by The Humane Society of the United States, represented the first time in American history that stockholders of a corporation have utilized the shareholder resolution process to offer a company praise for its corporate responsibility work.

Rep. Chris Collins has boasted about how much money he's made for other members of Congress by tipping them off to an Australia - based pharmaceutical company in which he is the largest stockholder, two GOP lawmakers told The Hill.

Rep. Chris Collins (R - N.Y.) has boasted about how much money he's made for other members of Congress by tipping them off to an Australia - based pharmaceutical company in which he is the largest stockholder, two GOP lawmakers told The Hill.

«If it wasn't bad enough that Chris Collins was pushing legislation to benefit a company that he's the largest stockholder of, now we find out that he doubled down on this egregious offense by urging other members of Congress to join his money - making scheme,» said Basil A. Smikle Jr., executive director of the New York State Democratic Committee.

Stockholders of Texas - based oil giant ExxonMobil are set to vote Wednesday on a proposed company policy to ban discrimination against gay or transgender workers, a resolution pushed by New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

The $ 380 billion company's alleged failure to account for the risks of climate change to its stockholders is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Going strictly by the local numbers, a third Kung Fu Panda movie might not have been warranted, but when the entire planet is considered, a Kung Fu Panda 3 starts looking especially promising to the DreamWorks brass and stockholders, who have seen the company's price fall 60 % since the disappointing release of Shrek Forever After.

It is the most recent example of an alarming trend — the abdication of responsibility by boards of education to publicly traded, profit - making companies whose bottom line is not education but the strength of their financial performance for their stockholders.

William Lynch is being replaced by Michael Huseby, who was the company's CFO and who will report directly to Len Riggio, the B&N executive chairman and largest stockholder.

The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies and is subject to customary closing conditions, including various regulatory approvals, and the approval of Motorola Mobility's stockholders.

But realistically, common stockholders are protected from such a liability by the corporate structure of publicly traded companies.

Owned by CEFCU and other credit unions, Members Trust Company was developed to benefit members, not individual stockholders.

We are frankly surprised that the Board has not previously addressed our concerns by affirmatively and unequivocally agreeing to proceed only with a transaction that provides for stockholders to receive no less than the Company's approximate liquidation value.

We believe that Avigen's shares are undervalued by the market as a result of stockholders» concern about the direction the current Board is taking the Company.

Most biotech companies in Avigen's shoes have managed to destroy the majority of stockholder value through by pursuing their favorite merger.

Should the nominees be unable to negotiate final terms with a third party that satisfies the requirements described above, or should such transaction not be approved by stockholders, the nominees intend to promptly return the Company's remaining cash to stockholders.

We have even gone so far as to outline a plan of liquidation to the Company that we believe could be approved by a substantial majority of the Company's stockholders.

As proposed, the acquisition by Tiberius of approximately 33 % of the Company's shares in the offer would cause Tiberius to become an «interested stockholder» under Section 203.

The amount that is not paid out in dividends to stockholders is held by the company for growth and is called retained earnings.

Stock life insurance companies, on the other hand, are owned by their stockholders, who vote for the officers of the company, rather than by their policyholders.

Having served on an audit committee, as a Director of an NYSE company audited by a member firm of the Big 4, I think a comment about how reliable and protective of minority stockholders I think US audit statements are, appropriate.

Actions and statements by the Company indicate that the existing management and Board are prepared to ignore the best interests of the Company's stockholders.

For example, the incumbent board recently sent a letter to stockholders that claimed the Company's recent troubles were caused by «one of the most economically challenging periods in recent history.»

For too long, MRVC has operated without proper oversight by the Board and has hidden behind poor corporate governance policies that neither respect the interests of the Company's stockholders nor provide meaningful Board accountability.

Stockholders in a company believe the company will be able to increase sales and profits, resulting in higher share prices and dividends paid by the company.

This notion is further supported by the inherent risk premium for stocks over bonds because stockholders are behind bondholders in the first lien on a company's resources in bankruptcy.