Sentences with phrase «for shareholder profit»

It is an attempt to highlight the invisible violence that underpins the international industry of death and suffering: the commercial and government complicity that allows for weapons to be made and sold by public companies for shareholder profit; the laws banning assault rifles which go neglected; and the films and video - games which depict trigger - happy heroes.

What can stop the drive for shareholder profits from leading to inappropriate geoengineering deployments?

Not exact matches

But equally powerful is the belief that on Wall Street and in boardrooms the sole responsibility of a corporation is to maximize profits for shareholders.

With any expenditure aimed at bettering employees, the environment, and community instead of maximizing profits for shareholders, there arises the conflict between shareholders and corporate social responsibility.

«The dominant and accepted understanding at the time, which continues, is that business is there to make a profit for shareholders — period,» said David Langstaff, who went on to become chief executive at national security firms Veridian Corp. and TASC.

By one measure, for every dollar in profits, 80 cents went to shareholders through dividends and what are called share buybacks.

For the full year, Quebecor earned a profit attributable to shareholders of $ 369.7 million or $ 1.53 per share in 2017, up from $ 194.7 million or 80 cents per share in 2016.

Local miner Sandfire Resources has delivered its first - ever fully franked dividend to shareholders, despite an 11.7 per cent slide in net profit to $ 69 million for the financial year.

As business leaders answer that question, they are redefining the role of business in society and reassessing the notion that the primary purpose of a company is to deliver profits for its shareholders.

Oakmark portfolio manager Bill Nygren believes «shareholder - unfriendly» CEOs are being treated too harshly for their decisions to allocate profits from long - term investments to stock buybacks and dividends.

Local IT firm Empired has decided against declaring a dividend payout to its shareholders, despite reporting a 135 per cent surge in net profit for the 2015 financial year.

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Consequently, net profit attributable to SES shareholders was EUR 98.2 million (Q1 2017: EUR 128.4 million) and earnings per share was EUR 0.19 (Q1 2017: EUR 0.26) after deducting the coupon (net of tax) for the group's hybrid (perpetual) bonds.

These findings echo those of the 1994 classic «Built to Last,» in which Jim Collins and Jerry Porras reveal that over a more than 60 - year period, purpose - guided companies earned six times more for their shareholders than their narrowly profit - focused competitors.

«We will continue to strengthen our investor confidence through various policies for returning profits to shareholders based on our improved performance.»

In 1991 Hannigan started the office products company Give Something Back and committed to earmarking the company's profits for nonprofit organizations instead of shareholders or investors.

The new wave of shareholders are likely to insist on ever - growing profits — this at a time when many people are expressing doubts about the company's room for growth.

(The reason for the jump: Amazon analysts and shareholders had braced for an expected loss of 13 cents per share, but the mega-retailer reported instead that it was in the black for the quarter — a 17 cents per share profit.)

At a recent Nasdaq luncheon Q&A, Schultz was challenged about his expansive view of «corporate social responsibility»: Was it not the role of the corporation simply to maximize profits for shareholders, who in turn can use the proceeds to do good in the world if they choose?

Managers don't promise to make a profit — such a promise would hardly be credible — but they do promise to at least try to make a profit, to have something left for shareholders after the bills are paid.

«At the end of the day Unilever is a shareholder - owned business, and shareholders are voracious for profits,» she says.

Business Insider has written about a lot of this before, including the fact that Acthar, and its importance to Mallinckrodt, has become a serious concern among its shareholders — and made the drugmaker a target for short sellers who profit from the stock's decline.

It's going to take time for these investments to translate into profit growth for shareholders.

* ROLLS - ROYCE: Britain's Rolls - Royce stuck to its profit and cash flow guidance for 2018 in a statement made ahead of its annual shareholder meeting, and said it was making progress with a plan to repair some problematic engines more quickly.

The Kremlin's increasingly aggressive efforts to control social media, however, seem to have made Russia the immediate testing ground for Facebook's most complicated questions about balancing user rights, government demands and the quest for profit for shareholders.

There is also the more common business ethics excuse that it was done for profit and the benefit of the shareholders.

I think health care prices are inelastic, I could have raised it higher and made more profits for our shareholders, which is my primary duty.»

Most of the time non-GAAP earnings are blatant misrepresentations of profits for the benefit of corporate insiders at the expense of regular shareholders.

Just as striking as Amazon's lack of interest in generating profit has been investors» willingness to back the company.195 With the exception of a few quarters in 2014, Amazon's shareholders have poured money in despite the company's penchant for losses.

Because it owns extensive insurance operations that experience fluctuating profits, it is not as easy to determine Berkshire's normal earnings power as it would be, for say, Kraft's food packaging divisions which have pretty predictable demand for macaroni and cheese, Oscar Meyer hot dogs, and Maxwell House coffee, but still — $ 12 billion is a good estimate of what «normal» profits look like each year for Berkshire shareholders.

[W] hile there is considerable evidence for the proposition that activist shareholders can profit through private rent seeking, there is little evidence that activism has benefits for investors as a class.

When companies pay workers more, it usually means lower profits for shareholders.

Since 1999, however, it has been destroying itself by downsizing its labor force and distributing its profits to shareholders,» said William Lazonick, a professor of economics and director of the Center for Industrial Competitiveness at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell.

Yet the measure of success for every business, regardless of sector is the same: sales, profits, merger and acquisition expectation prospects, and value creation for shareholders.

Notorious for running on a low profit margin, Amazon has still reaped rewards for shareholders as it has bet on new services like voice - controlled computing and has expanded across continents and industries.

«U.S. multinational corporations can defer paying tax on profits they earn abroad indefinitely by agreeing not to use the earnings for certain purposes, like paying dividends to shareholders, financing domestic acquisitions, guaranteeing loans, or making investments in physical capital in the U.S..

While profits are ideally generated, the main aim is not to maximize financial returns for shareholders but to grow the social venture and reach more people in need.

However, for stock market companies, simply creating new shares or issuing stock options by fiat that are given away to employees without the company selling them at full value, existing shareholders would experience an economic dilution in profits (dividends) per share going down because of a larger number of shares and, importantly, in economic value, being given away (shares of the company are literally being simply granted to someone else, namely employees).

Other more sweeping reform options would address double taxation by allowing shareholders credits against personal taxes for tax levied at the corporate level (an «imputation system») or by passing corporate profits through to shareholders, similar to the tax treatment of partnerships and S - corporations («corporate tax integration»).

Apple's tax break on its overseas profits is turning into a $ 102 billion boon for shareholders.

Publicly traded Public Enemy (PE) outfits channel their profits from Legalized Bust Outs (LBOs) to a few insiders while leaving a few scraps for the public shareholders.

(The major miners serve the bullion banks, not their shareholders, and have actively participated in gold's price destruction for years, starting with the «hedging» campaign that handed guaranteed profits to the banks and pitiful share prices to the stakeholders.)

Indeed, we regard profit and the creation of shareholder value as the byproduct of making a difference for our key stakeholders and society.

Valuentum's Economic Castle ™ rating assumes that «economic profit» (as measured by ROIC less WACC) is the primary factor in assessing the value that a company generates for shareholders.

For the long - term investor, GLUU is a company with no profits, moderate growth, and management that consistently destroys shareholder value by diluting their equity.

Since 2008, he's called practically every major shale play before the mainstream press got wind of them — including the now - famous Bakken oil formation and the companies that have raked in billions in profits for their shareholders.

That's because corporations plan to reward shareholders as profits increase, not raise wages for employees or hire more people.

The steep drop in shareholder value is largely due to Barclays profit loss forecast of 30 % for the next year as a result of imposing lower tariffs, and consequently, a slash in dividends.

The company's nine consecutive years of dividend growth looks set to continue for many years to come, with the low payout ratio of 47.8 % allowing for a great equilibrium between retaining profit (for company growth / expansion) and returning profit to shareholders.

The company is paying out a third of its profit to shareholders as dividends, and keeping the other two - thirds of its profit for other purposes such as growing the business, making acquisitions, reducing debt levels, or repurchasing shares.