Sentences with phrase «driven by shareholder»

The company is part of a mutual holding company structure; therefore, policy and contract owners are members of the enterprise, rather than the company being driven by shareholder needs.

Healthcare costs are escalating because private insurance companies are beholden by profit and are driven by shareholders expecting returns, she said.

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Net Income Attributable to Common Shareholders for the quarter, under both Previous Standards and the New Standard, was driven by the inclusion of our PLK segment, growth in BK segment income, and the redemption of our preferred shares in 2017.

Shoppers Drug Mart shareholders, who will own approximately 29 % of the combined company, stand to benefit from substantial upside over the long - term, driven by the combined company's strategic position and achievement of full run - rate synergies.

And that is driven in part by a shareholder - value / activism / whatever culture that Icahn has played a part in promoting.

Maduro's administration has pointedly claimed that the people who will be hurt most by the sanctions aimed at stymieing the nation's ballooning debt will be shareholders in the U.S. Indeed, there is outcry that the potential banning of oil imports from Venezuela — the 3rd biggest supplier of oil to the U.S. behind Canada and Saudi Arabia — will dramatically drive up gasoline prices and hurt the U.S. job market.

We are committed to building shareholder value driven by executing on our business plan, and we believe that we have real opportunities for success».

Spearheaded by my partners Eric Carlborg and Tripp Jones, we led a late stage financing for the company (along side Canaan and Foundation again) to enable those acquisitions and drive growth, and in the process August became Ebates» largest shareholder.

Cash and cash equivalents were $ 2 billion versus $ 2.7 billion a year ago, with the reduction largely driven by our commitment to return cash to shareholders and invest in strategic opportunities.

In its third - quarter shareholder letter, Tesla management said it expected higher per - unit vehicle production costs, driven by low - volume early production Model 3 units, to continue to negatively impact the company's automotive gross profit margin.

Comprehensive loss to shareholders and book value per share were impacted by declines in both our fixed income and equity portfolios, driven by an increase in interest rates and unfavorable movements in the equity markets during the period.

Perhaps unsurprising, news of the transaction was received poorly by shareholders, driving the price of Avalanche shares down an additional 13 % following announcement.

The appointments to these newly created positions are designed to better serve customer needs and are reflective of the rapidly changing corporate governance landscape — from one of interactions driven primarily by shareholder voting to an era of broad, year - round engagement.

The book is a series of case studies that describes how a small number of CEOs have used cash generative businesses as platforms to drive massive returns for shareholders by directing excess cash opportunistically between large stock buybacks, special dividends and acquisitions of other businesses.

Fortunately, family businesses are in a unique position to take a longer view, as they are often less driven by the pressures of quarterly results and shareholder dividends.

Ethical and environmental improvements to our food system are not only vital to consumer demand, driven primarily by a millennial interest in cleaner food, but also to shareholders.

A rush of takeovers of Australian mining resources by their Chinese shareholders is being driven by a change in political leadership and a desire to take control of strategic assets.

We expect to benefit from their business experience and industry contacts as we continue to execute the Company's strategy to drive enhanced value for shareholders by converting feed to food and attacking the rapidly growing market for natural, organic and functional foods.

In this environment, large public companies almost inevitably appear as hierarchies based on the absolute power of the Board of Directors, driven by the ethos of short - term gain for executives and corporate shareholders.

As always, any decision to sell is driven by our focus on delivering the best value for our shareholders.»

And notably, comments by Elon Musk made during Tesla's June shareholder meeting point to an all - wheel drive chassis hitting the market in the 2014 - 2015 time frame — Musk mentions the chassis separately from the Model X, suggesting that it could find its way into other vehicles.

By trading ahead of the fund, the front - runner can profit at the fund's expense, driving up fund trading costs and undercutting shareholder returns.

For Nintendo and shareholders, who are justifiably driven by profits, the Wii U era was far from a success.

There's no end in sight because it is now a vicious cycle driven by us, the publishers and the shareholders.

This brief discusses two distinct forms of these measures: voluntary programmes that drive action by businesses, and government shareholder influence over state - owned enterprises.

Thus, many «green energy» projects are driven by public relations objectives rather than by sound business decisions that benefit customers or shareholders.

It is widely anticipated that the number of class actions brought around the world will continue to grow, driven by the globalisation of litigation funders and the increasing appetite from funders and plaintiff law firms to develop new claims outside shareholder class actions.

But it would be the ever - stronger need to drive shareholder value in the face of fast - globalising competition, and intensified by the impact of global recession, that would accelerate the change.

Shareholder rights plans also proved valuable by buying time and driving competition.

However, if a lot of Spotify shareholders decide that they'd like to buy houses and the like, then the market could be overburdened by non-locked-up shares, driving the price down.

«Spotify's early stock valuation may be driven by limited supply amid a preponderance of strategic investors and affiliate shareholders,» Jitendra Waral and Sean Handrahan of Bloomberg Intelligence wrote in a note.

The difference between a stock IPO and a cryptocurrency ICO is that the price of the newly issued digital token is only indirectly driven by the performance of the startup that is raising the funds and that the token holders have no claim on any of the company's assets as it would be the case for shareholders.

Drive improvements in shareholder value by optimizing financial returns, increasing company cash flow, and managing business risk.

A CIC is a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally re-invested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners.

Unlike traded REITs, where value is tied to the price at which shares trade on an exchange and is often influenced by emotions (such as fear and greed) that drive public markets, shareholders of NTRs see value equal to the cost of the asset at the time of purchase.