Sentences with phrase «dollar valuations for»

The «applied micro» school of economics developed by the late Gary Becker and currently associated with Steve Levitt might be somewhat puzzled by the unique lack of dollar valuation for sex when lobbyists are expected to value all other goods and services.

Not exact matches

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

One co-founder of a startup with a multibillion - dollar valuation told me he's so inspired by the Facebook CEO and his annual personal challenges, he listens to the soundtrack of The Social Network to psych himself up for board meetings and presentations.

Drew Nordlicht: We have seen valuations become stretched, and investors in the IPO space have been paying top dollar for revenue potential, not necessarily earnings.

The Innosight report notes that startups with multibillion - dollar valuations are likely candidates for forthcoming IPOs and, therefore, S&P 500 eligibility.

For a tech company pre-IPO, these numbers aren't surprising, but there are good reasons to think that Snap may have trouble scaling up to the multi-billion dollar revenue company its valuation implies it'll become.

The USD ISDAFIX is a valuation tool used for dollar - denominated interest - rate swaps of a range of maturities.

That's a lot of money, but the real reason for the Facebook brouhaha is the valuation: $ 15 billion dollars for a company that has revenues estimated at $ 150 million, profits of approximately $ 30 million, a flip - flop wearing 23 year old of a CEO.

Investors in Amazon's 1997 IPO (three years after its founding at a market capitalization of $ 625 million, in current dollars) made 565 times their money, compared to 20 - times for investors in Google's 2004 IPO (six years after founding at a valuation of $ 29 billion) and 3.7 - times for investors in Facebook's $ 110 billion IPO five years ago.

«On the IPO side, favorable public market conditions and stronger valuations are contributing to better quality IPOs for venture - backed companies as evidenced by the jump in dollars raised on the public markets,» NVCA Head of Research John Taylor said in a statement.

There's a popular term for companies that cross the billion dollar - valuation mark these days: unicorn.

Entrepreneurs literally started asking for billion - dollar valuations just because the market is talking about unicorns.

There was talk of unicorns falling,» he says, referring to the Silicon Valley nickname for startups with billion - dollar valuations.

But the shareholder letter indicated that his taking time off was not enough for some investors who have pumped millions of dollars into the ride - hailing company, which has seen its valuation swell to nearly $ 70 billion.

Financial theory does suggest that equity valuations, i.e. the price you pay for a dollar of earnings, should drop as the interest rate used to discount that earning rises.

Despite recent hype around a handful of venture - backed companies raising money at multi-billion dollar valuations, achieving a more than $ 1b exit for a startup is highly unlikely.

The impact of a stronger dollar is likely to remain a hurdle for earnings, but U.S. equities are also contending with high relative valuations and a likely increase in interest rates by the Federal Reserve (Fed) in the second half of this year.

It also suggested that relative valuations and a strong dollar would tend to present greater opportunities for companies to help expand their footprint in new overseas markets.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Given that most companies today are trading at valuations well above their ten - year averages (i.e. investors usually pay $ 18 - $ 22 for each dollar of profit that Hershey generates, but today they are willing to pay $ 26 - $ 29).

Rather than valuations or the dollar, the best case for EM equities ties back to global growth.

First, because of a weaker dollar — but also due to: low U.S. interest rates; loose financial conditions; and greater margin of safety compared to valuations for most of the developed world.

While many in the coworking industry have questioned WeWork's business model and staggering $ 20 billion dollar valuation, there seems to be no uncertainty within the flexible office industry of valuation and business prospects for Blackstone's new majority stake acquisition of The Office Group, «the pioneer of the shared workspace concept» in the United Kingdom.

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My favorite part though is that whereas Missouri ethics law generally requires «amounts» and «total expenditures» as part of the reporting for such largesse, the sex bill includes the qualification, «The reporting of sexual relations for purposes of this subdivision shall not require a dollar valuation.»

Since becoming a large - cap chocolate manufacturer, Hershey's fair stock valuation is usually when its stock trades at $ 20 for every dollar in profit that it makes, for a P / E ratio of 20 or an earnings yield of 5 % depending on how you look at it.

For estate tax planning purposes, such an action can be most valuable as it will allow a surviving partner to prove his or her portion of ownership in the home, making the estate valuation of the first partner to die more equitable, and may also save costly estate tax dollars.

For example, I previously nominated the US (correctly, I believe) as the market facing the strongest head - winds, due to higher valuations, the strong dollar, and the Fed's dithering (& possible incompetence).

In effect, RFP is trading at only 15 % of WY on a per revenue dollar basis, and even if we adjust for the difference in EBITDA margins, RFP is trading at a valuation of 27 % of WY.

Well, except for the recent dose of pessimism we've been experiencing since November... In terms of valuation, and the stronger dollar, I expected the S&P to retrace / trade sideways for quite some time to come — but I also hoped to see it throw up some high quality growth stocks to consider averaging into, which has certainly proved to be the case with some v interesting individual stock bargains now on offer.

Our sample valuations found anything from $ 0.004 to $ 0.016 per point, so getting rooms at the upper end of this range obviously maximizes your value for the dollar.

As you can see in the table below, the bulk of the value comes from the sign - up bonus itself — I used my latest valuations to calculate a dollar amount for each offer.

For this analysis, I will use TPG's valuation of 0.7 cents per point and calculate the dollar equivalent of the redemption price.

The turnaround time is not like I.T. where within two years something's completely gone or it's a unicorn [an investors» term for start - ups that reach a billion - dollar valuation] or public.

Writer Stephen C. Webster of The Raw Story blog observed that «Adjusted for inflation using the consumer price index, those 1998 dollars would actually be worth $ 310 and $ 854 today, although the study's authors note that variables in supply and demand for hemp could change that valuation.»

Multimillion dollar jury verdict on valuation of industrial land appropriated for rail intermodal terminal.

It rejected billion - dollar - plus valuations for its service that ships containers full of goods around the world.

So we can see not just one or two but seven startups gunning for similar areas of this space, many of which have raised tens of millions of dollars, with at least one startup's valuation creeping near $ 900 million.

Andrew Gazdecki, CEO of Altcoin Exchange said that the current exercise is only for a demonstration purpose of direct trade and the next step of development will involve transferring of Ethereum to Bitcoin by comparing the two with their dollar equivalent valuations or any other fiat currencies.

But don't mistake the dollar price attached to these coins for a fair valuation of their worth.

WhalePanda criticized many of the ICOs that have raised massive amounts of money, at a valuation surpassing hundreds of millions of dollars, for the lack of clear vision, user base, revenue stream and even a working product.

If bitcoin can compete with fiat currencies in the upcoming years, the market valuation of bitcoin would likely be able to reach a few trillion dollars, which is an optimistic long - term indicator for bitcoin investors.

For a 48 - hour window the market lost nearly 250 $ billion dollars in valuation.