Sentences with phrase «from laggards»

You can increase your stakes on the likely winners, and remove your bets from the laggards and fallers, at any time during the race.

They compound their returns over time and overcompensate for the losses from the laggards.

Conversely, you may not want to walk away from a laggard just yet.

In that situation, plenty of businesses will shift investment from the laggard to the upstart.

Not exact matches

Already a laggard on business enterprise R&D (BERD), Canada has fallen from 15th to last place among the 16 international peers and receives a «D» grade.

Restaurants are often laggards when it comes to adopting new technology, but rising labor costs due to higher minimum wage and labor shortages coupled with food inflation has some looking to solutions that can provide some relief from the increased pressure on already tight margins.

Early adopters may be easy to sign up and the most vocal, but your technology - assessment panel must include customers from the early majority, late majority and even technology laggards.

States have rebounded strongly from the recession, but some long - time laggards still can't create a business - friendly environment.

On the call, Munoz said the current managers need more time after inheriting an industry laggard from previous leaders.

With internet access and smartphones continuing to proliferate, with platform monopolies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook extracting ever - more value from more corners of the economy, with digital natives and sector leaders now integrating machine learning into their operations, the digitization gap between leaders and laggards grows wider by the day.

That dramatically transforms the typical fund from a market beater to a market laggard.

This data is from 2010/11, but later school district level numbers — also from Statistics Canada — show that BC has continued to be a laggard in education spending compared to other Canadian provinces.13

Its tall, gangly, inefficient architecture makes it an environmental laggard among plants, one that sucks up water and fertilizer while leaching out gobs of nutrients that run off in rainfall, polluting surface waters from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.

by Walter Chaw Borrowing heavily from Disney's aimless and laggard Dinosaur, Fox and Blue Sky Animation's Ice Age is burdened from the outset by the vaguely disturbing reality that the titular epoch spells doom for most of the heroes of this animated mistake.

The setting is asked to be the visual representation of the decay of father - son relationships stretching into eternity; the question of whether Cain's transgression is an indelible mark on the soul, passed from generation to generation, finds a weak foundation here in what is essentially a broad and laggard melodrama packed with unconvincing highs and unmoving lows.

Second, as Patrick McGuinn pointed out in a 2010 American Enterprise Institute paper, Race to the Top «shifted the focus of federal education policy from the [state] laggards to the leaders.»

In Hartford, for example, it can take as long as two years to for Perry to remove a laggard teacher from his school.

But, today, I just want to point to three measures from Leaders & Laggards that help to offer a more holistic take on the quality of a state's school system.

In fact, one of the dirty secrets in education is that those very voices are the ones that are often marginalized within cultures of mediocrity and failure that are often the norm in districts and schools, thanks to policies that fail to reward and recognize good - and - great teaching, place bureaucratic obstacles to fostering this work among colleagues, and protect laggards from losing their jobs.

Dare any reformer mention how tenure protects laggard and criminally - abusive teachers from being sacked from classrooms and you will see NEA and AFT bosses, along with traditionalists in their amen corner, accusing that person of hating teachers and not respecting their hard work.

Not that the latter is shocking; two months ago, state officials sought approval from the administration to delay using the evaluation system in rewarding high - quality teachers and sacking laggards, as well as to exempt kids taking trial versions of Common Core reading and math tests being rolled out in the next couple of years from having to take the current battery of state exams.

Despite being home to an early online leader, Maynard - based Virtual High School, Massachusetts is a laggard when it comes to online learning — actually capping virtual school enrollments at 500 — and prompting protests from iNACOL.

The average low - performing teacher in math in a Florida school serving mostly - middle class kids is just two - hundredths of a standard deviation better than an equally laggard peer in school serving poor kids, according to a 2010 study from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.

The Leaf is swift enough not to be called a laggard but its 9.7 - second amble from rest to sixty mph won't earn acclaim from the National Hot Rod Association.

From being the innovator to being the laggard, Tata Motors has been through a tough journey off late.

Like the move from silent pictures to «talkies,» the transition to electronic publishing will prove fatal to laggards.

Leapfrogging is a form of momentum investing where investors jump from one stock to another, routinely switching out of the laggards in their portfolio and into funds with better performance.

Understanding this to be the case, the obvious question for me becomes, «Within the low price - to - book value universe, is there any way of further distinguishing likely stars from likely laggards and thereby further increasing returns?»

Aside from GE, it has been one of the few laggards in my portfolio during this continuing bull market run.

Too little change and a brand goes from being viewed as a laggard to criticized for not keeping up with the times.

[To take a contra - example — recently, BRIC markets have been the emerging market laggards for investors, resulting from higher valuations & lower growth prospects vs. the rest of the merging & frontier universe].

Thus, the table not only lays out two decades» worth of performance history for a broad swath of investments, it also allows you to see which of those investments have been leaders or laggards from one year to the next.

Again, this will vary a lot from year to year: in 2015, emerging markets were the laggards that dragged down the ETF portfolios.

You can add new money to the laggards, or reinvest your dividends and interest in them, or take your distributions from the good performers.

In this post, again from reddit's Personal Finance Canada section, when the party was over for one stock in an investors portfolio there were still two laggard shares left in their account.

Consider me as one of those laggards who has never purchased anything from you, if you like.

Urgenda had argued that the Netherlands had slipped from being a leader to a laggard on climate change.

We have not shied away from calling out laggards, but our modus operandi has been to shine a light on the leaders and solutions, guided by the adage that «you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.»

«I think it shows the pressure that some of these laggard countries felt under from other countries and from the public in their own countries to not block the language.

Coal was the only laggard during the past half century, rising only 263 per cent from 33.7 to 122.2 quads.

«The metro has the potential to move from performance laggard status to star positioning very quickly.»