Sentences with phrase «high numbers of companies»

For example, the metals and mining sectors are well - known for the high numbers of companies trading in pennies.

If 87 is the final number of companies issuing negative EPS guidance for the quarter, it will mark the highest number of companies issuing negative EPS guidance since FactSet began tracking guidance data in 2006.

The reason could be that because of vacations an unusually high number of companies report their employment data too late to be included in the first release.

If these are the final numbers, it will mark the highest number of companies issuing negative EPS guidance and tie the mark for the lowest number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance since FactSet began tracking the data in 2006.

Is the worry that in a recession, such a high number of companies will default that the overall yield of HYG will drop below that of LQD?

Germany has the highest number of companies actually providing incentives to the board for management relating to climate change issues — although the proportion is still a fairly low 29 percent, closely followed by France at 25 percent.

Not exact matches

Intel found that its diverse hires were leaving the company at a higher rate than others, which of course had a negative impact on the overall diversity numbers.

Increasingly, high - performing companies are recognizing that strong internal communication has tremendous business value in a number of ways:

Keyword stuffing is a tactic where a piece of content on a business» website was written specifically to contain a high number of keywords related to the company's products, or other keywords related to the business, that the business hopes to rank for in the SERPs.

The numbers have nudged up from 15.9 % in 2013, when Catalyst Canada surveyed the number of women on Financial Post 500 boards, and new comply - or - explain regulations initiated by the Ontario Securities Commission will likely push the statistics higher now that companies are required to disclose female representation on boards and in senior management.

Measures such as quotas that force placement of a higher number of women into leadership may provide rapid results, but may not do much to help get rid of the bias, and won't change a company's culture.

A short - term focus has also been linked to the heavy use of stock options in executive compensation and a high number of analysts following the company.

The new research shows that something different has been happening: Boards have been allowing CEO pay to climb ever higher by offering executives the same number of options year in and year out, regardless of company stock prices.

This role — part strategist, creative director, technologist and teacher — is now recognized at the highest levels of management as it's squarely at the intersection between traditional marketing and the growing number of software tools used to make sense of companies» vast amounts of data.

That's more than double the number of companies that went public in the first quarter of 2013, and the highest number since the same period in 2000, Renaissance reports.

According to the census, approximately 40 % of companies (177 in 2011) had no women serving on their boards — a shockingly high number.

After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

Western Australia has recorded its highest number of insolvencies for a month in nearly two years, with 841 companies entering external administration across the country in July.

At the time, the company was already riding high after a number of proprietary software deployments.

That uncertainty is heightened by the number of top - level positions that have opened up following numerous high - profile departures from the company.

I've run marketing for a number of high - tech companies and my degrees are technical, as well.

A number of other embarrassing debacles followed — including reports that Uber had used a software tool to try to deceive authorities by «hiding» rides — and ultimately resulted in a more than 20 % decrease to the once high - flying company's valuation, from around $ 70 billion to an estimated $ 54 billion.»

In the past, Chadwick served as the finance chief at a number of high profile companies, including Skype leading up to its acquisition by Microsoft (msft) in 2011, at McAfee leading up to its acquisition by Intel (intc) that same year, and earlier at Cisco (csco).

The New York City company had a lousy 2013, thanks to lower metal prices and higher manufacturing costs, which added up to a loss of $ 2.3 billion and the number four spot on the «Fortune 500: 20 companies that lost the most» list in 2014.

The company used number crunching to improve its hiring process, isolate the key attributes of its highest performing teams, and even understand what makes an exceptional manager (at least one key takeaway will probably surprise you).

Poised to secure GolfTEC's position in the $ 62 billion golf industry, Assell needed a million - dollar influx of cash to expand his market - leading, high - tech, golf instruction business - he wanted to double the number of company - owned stores and expand the company's franchise operation.

In fact, 2015 is expected to see the highest number of deals between private companies, as nearly 700 startups are forecast to be acquired by year's end.

The ruling gave some much needed clarity to stockholders concerning the fate of companies that benefit from the higher number of insured brought about by the Affordable Care Act.

«While the company faces a number of significant challenges, including the continued rise of Amazon and Google, its high margin and large sales figures enable the company to generate significant free cash flow, which it increasingly returns to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.»

The city also has a fairly large high - growth company density at 191.4 — that's the number of companies out of 100,000 with annual revenues more than $ 2 million (and growing by 20 percent over a three - year period).

With U.S. unemployment hovering around 8 % and the number of job seekers even higher in some regions, you might think companies would have no trouble finding eager and suitable candidates for open positions.

Although it commands just 15 per cent of the smartphone market, compared to more than 80 per cent for devices running Google's Android software, the company is responsible for more than half the profits earned by smartphone manufacturers worldwide (some estimates now put the number as high as 93 %).

What's notable isn't just the sheer sales number (or the fact that it's likely to climb higher before the holiday season ends), but also the fact that it tops the company's initial full - year sales estimate as well as the sales of its predecessor, the Wii U.

With 190 companies on the 2014 Inc. 5000, Atlanta ranks as the city with the third - highest number of fast - growth companies.

Given the increase in the number of companies with such high valuations, investors may want to take heed.

Lower wages allowed for higher company profits, which in turn led to an increase in the number of IT firms that entered the market, thus spurring competition and innovation.

The company is backed by a number of high - profile investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Foxconn, GV, Greylock, and Qualcomm Ventures.

«The IRS will always start out from the premise that your company is worth the highest possible number,» explains John J. Ferro, senior director of the corporate finance group at Arthur Andersen in New York City.

Startup America will use these goods and services to train and mentor entrepreneurs, increase the number of high - growth firms that create quality jobs and economic growth, and inspire the greater public to go out and «build great American companies.»

According to the report, companies with the highest number of women in top management positions had better financial performance than companies with a lower representation.

Xerox has long assigned numbers to its employment objectives, which is perhaps why the company is setting its sights even higher: It is aiming for 34 % of the executive leadership team to be female within the next five years (up from 28 % currently), according to Damika Arnold, global diversity and inclusion leader at Xerox.

According to a study of boards of directors from the research group Catalyst, companies that had a higher - than - usual number of female board members serving for at least four or five years vastly outperformed companies with primarily male board members.

Kenneth Zaslow, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets, says that the company has managed a number of other headwinds well, including higher dairy prices and a general softness in the U.S. package goods industry.

As operations become more complex for companies doing business both online and in store, out - of - stocks, overstocks and returns are costing retailers $ 1.75 trillion a year — a number that's only moving higher.

The 30 - employee company has signed a number of high - profile clients, including Nike, J. Crew, Bonobos, Urban Outfitters, and Kate Spade.

But Zuckerberg has made it clear that the company is focusing on features that encourage repeated viewing of videos, rather than the high number of views of seemingly random videos on the News Feed.

The California - based company is meeting this ski and snowboard season head - on — literally — with the Oakley Airwave 1.5, a high - end set of smartphone - connected goggles that offer up a number of features.

For those uninitiated, Startup America is a White House partnership with AOL co-founder Steve Case and the Kauffman and the Case Foundations, with the aim to increase «the number of new, high - growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and source of competitive advantage; and inspire and empower an ever - greater diversity of communities and individuals to build great American companies.»

«Women are founding companies at a very significant pace today, but they're still relatively smaller numbers focusing on high growth venture - backable businesses,» says Cindy Padnos, managing director of Illuminate Ventures.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.