Sentences with phrase «for less growth»

While I'm happy to get a nice payout and for VOD to realize the full value of this asset on the books, I also believe that shareholders are getting a nice payout today for less growth in the future.

Essentially, that means we are paying more for less growth.

Not exact matches

Driving more than half the growth in drug spending in 2015 were sales of new branded medications that have been available for less than two years.

Economies are not expanding fast enough for them to raise interest rates, but the longer rates stay low, the less impact they'll have on growth.

Unlike Grantham, Shilling believes that low global growth will continue to keep pressure on the price of oil, especially when Saudi Arabia, the world's most influential producer, can continue to pump up oil for less than $ 10 a barrel.

For example, if you are a business located only in the UK, you are limiting yourself to less than 1 % of the world's population, which isn't really an ambitious plan for growFor example, if you are a business located only in the UK, you are limiting yourself to less than 1 % of the world's population, which isn't really an ambitious plan for growfor growth.

With U.S. consumers upgrading their smartphones less often, manufacturers have been relying on China for growth.

Knowing how to do more with less was a significant factor in enabling these firms to continue to post record growth as the economy took a turn for the worse.

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

But she also stresses creating the environment for long - term economic growth, which is why a significant increase to the capital - gains tax for investments less than six years in duration is at the center of her plan.

The collapse of oil prices wiped out profits and killed the incentive to expand in the oil patch, and economic growth of less than 2 % offers little incentive for non-energy companies to expand.

Nevertheless, less than two weeks after Schroeder outlined how Tim Hortons would pursue new avenues for growth, he was gone.

Even prior to the Trump win, a victory that signaled higher economic growth, rising interest rates, and likely less regulation, all good for financial services, Buffett had secured paper profits over 5 1/2 years of $ 6.9 billion on his preferred.

It put out a clarification statement after the report, giving two clues about the number: that daily users make up less than 50 percent of monthly users, and that there's a lot of room for growth.

For many companies, that work seems less rewarding than doing the stuff that actually might drive hockey stick growth.

The compound annual growth rate for beer overall was less than 1 % between 2010 and 2016, but low and no beers provided a glimmer of hope at 5.2 %, according to insights firm GlobalData.

«The U.S. should not settle for anything less than 4 percent growth a year,» Bush said.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

He says the actions of central banks «attempting to spark economic growth» are «severely punishing the world's savers and creating incentives to reach for yield, pushing investors into less liquid asset classes and increased levels of risk, with potentially dangerous financial and economic consequences.»

At the time, it was less common for a woman to take the reins of a company, but Marshall stepped up and has since led the company to impressive growth.

If the tablet is the new laptop, the blurred line between it and the phone matters less, and there may be room for growth at the other end — certainly from a productivity standpoint.

Now, the bad: iPhone sales grew less than 1 % over the same quarter a year earlier, the slowest year - over-year growth for the device ever.

Going from four employees to 250 in less than seven years is the type of growth most entrepreneurs would envy, but it was a management abyss for Assurex Health.

From 1997 through 2001, the median growth rate for companies that had less than $ 1,000 in seed capital was 846 %, compared with 953 % for companies that were started with more than $ 100,000.

This makes sense; lower growth should result in bond yields falling, anticipating lower Bank of Canada rates in the future and less need for a risk premium around inflation.

In order to access younger companies with the potential for rapid growth, investors will need to embrace alternatives, particularly private strategies that operate in less - efficient markets with more opportunities to generate alpha.

They may have big dreams for their stake in the company, but they are less likely to demand growth on a quarterly basis the way shareholders in a widely - held company are likely to do.

The less distorted (and less followed) year - over-year growth rates for output, personal income and consumption were meanwhile showing sluggish readings.

In the base year used in the five - year growth calculation (e.g., 2012), any companies with revenue of less than $ 200,000 will have their revenue for that period lifted to $ 200,000 for the purpose of calculating five - year growth that is not grossly exaggerated by immaterial differences in the base - year revenues of otherwise equal candidates (for instance, a company that grows from $ 1 to $ 2 million would have a higher growth rate than a company that grows from $ 2 to $ 3 million).

Last week, for example, CVS said that prescription drug «hyperinflation» — defined as price increases of more than 100 % and as much as 5,000 % — contributed less than 0.7 % to overall cost growth for its PBM clients.

Russell Robb, managing director of Atlantic Capital Management and president of the Association for Corporate Growth, a trade group for deal - makers, is less ambivalent on this point.

Developing economies find themselves in need of new growth models now that there is less demand for imports, no matter how cheap they might be.

In the base year used in the two - year growth calculation (e.g., 2015), any companies with revenue of less than $ 200,000 will have their revenue for that period lifted to $ 200,000 for the purpose of calculating two - year growth that is not grossly exaggerated by immaterial differences in the base - year revenues of otherwise equal candidates (for instance, a company that grows from $ 1 to $ 2 million would have a higher growth rate than a company that grows from $ 2 to $ 3 million).

We certainly try to make the travel industry that much less painful for consumers, that's why we've seen so much growth.

Publishers like The New York Times have websites that users spend less than 20 minutes on in the average month, apps that no one wants to pay for, and paywalls whose growth is flattening sharply.

With Chinese growth slowing, a paramount issue for President Obama and American business will be learning what the direction of Chinese policy will be — toward greater opening of its market in the tradition of Deng Xiaoping, or much less welcome alternatives.

Ken Doctor, a media analyst for consulting company Outsell, said Verizon is becoming less of a utility that merely provides access to online services and more of a player in the digital arena as it sees growth in the likes of Apple, Google and Facebook.

However, these benefits become less motivating for employees as they join your team and begin to think about leadership roles and opportunities for growth.

Comcast added 350,000 high - speed internet customers during the quarter, slightly less than a year earlier, but still the largest source of sales growth for the company.

If policy developments in advanced economies make the path for growth and debt less benign than expected, risk premiums and volatility could rise sharply.

Growth in exports over 2017 and 2018 are projected to be slower than previously forecast, due to lower estimates of global demand, a composition of US growth that appears less favourable to Canadian exports, and ongoing competitiveness challenges for Canadian Growth in exports over 2017 and 2018 are projected to be slower than previously forecast, due to lower estimates of global demand, a composition of US growth that appears less favourable to Canadian exports, and ongoing competitiveness challenges for Canadian growth that appears less favourable to Canadian exports, and ongoing competitiveness challenges for Canadian firms.

«Although we've now seen two consecutive quarters of strong market growth, we believe the strong market performance has less to do with strengthening demand and more to do with increased appetite from the channel for inventory,» added Linn Huang, research director, Devices & Displays.

Even in the startup mecca of Silicon Valley, guns remain less regulated than startups, and early stage companies continue to have their feet tied together with red tape, bureaucratic practices, and strict government regulations that limit their potential for growth.

But anyone hoping for the kind of stock growth Shoppers enjoyed over the past decade — when its share price climbed from less than $ 18 to, at one point, over $ 55 — will be disappointed.

The story is similar elsewhere, leaving less room for the upside growth surprises that powered global risk assets in 2017.

Having increased their borrowing, households are less inclined to let consumption growth run ahead of growth in incomes for too long.

I have ignored reasons that might justify lower discount rates or higher GDP adjustments for China mainly because the purpose of this essay is to explain why the U.S. multiple is so much higher than China's, and of course these reasons exist, but I think whatever the correct ratio should be, there is no question that advanced economies always justify higher multiples than developing economies because they tend to be economically more diversified and politically more stable, and they usually have institutions, including clearer legal and regulatory frameworks, more sophisticated capital allocation processes, less rigid financial systems, and smaller state sectors (which make smooth adjustment, one of the most valuable and undervalued components of long - term growth, more likely).

Add to this the disappointing ISM report, weakening automobile sales and slightly lower - than - hoped - for GDP growth in the second quarter, and it seems less and less likely we'll see more than one additional rate hike in 2017.

Smaller, mid-sized and relatively new or unseasoned companies can be particularly sensitive to changing economic conditions, and their prospects for growth are less certain than those of larger, more established companies.

On the other hand, the Macron victory is likely to be less positive for companies we'd consider to be lower - growth.