Sentences with phrase «higher than firms»

Firms with consistent sales and earnings growth were rated higher than firms where profitability has been inconsistent.

Speaking to MCV ahead of the company's financial report, CEO Strauss Zelnick said that the number of views the title's initial trailer received were higher than the firm's own high expectations.

The Melbourne personal injury firm Slater & Gordon listed on the Australian stock exchange, with trading opening at 32 cents higher than the firm's issue price of $ 1 a share.

Not exact matches

Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

The sales numbers are staggering — signed contracts in April were 28 percent higher than a year ago, the strongest since 2005, according to RMLS, a real estate data firm.

Equity funding of AI - focused startups reached an all - time high last quarter of more than $ 1 billion, according to the CB Insights research firm.

When InBev asked candidate firms how much extra work they'd be willing to do without compensation and how much longer than the company's already astonishing 120 - day payment terms agencies would be willing to wait for their money, the ad biz was in high dudgeon.

The outside firm can often cost less than the salary and benefits of a full - time employee and, at the same time, you may be getting a higher level of advice from a CPA or a tax accountant, the latter of whom usually is a licensed CPA and a lawyer specializing in tax law.

To connect these two groups, a new wave of nimble web - based employment services firms is arising, promising a higher standard of recruitment than traditional temp agencies provide.

Europe's banking index was among the top performers on Monday, up by more than 1.4 percent, with every firm in the sector trading higher.

But for all the firm's high - toned, West Coast cool, Lunar's success is, in part, more surface than substance.

«Brands are being held to a higher standard than they have been in the past,» Mimi Chakravorti, executive director of strategy at the brand - consulting firm Landor, told Morning Consult.

«The compliance bar for companies to go public is much higher than in previous years, so things like pending litigation and accounting irregularities need to be clean,» says David Zilberman, partner at venture capital firm Comcast Ventures.

Bonnie Gwin, Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than ever.

According to a new report from research firm Forrester, companies can expect a much higher rate of engagement with customers on Instagram than on other popular social sites.

Total sales for 2015 edged upward by 3 %, to more than $ 700 billion, and market research firm NPD Group forecasts that Americans will make 61.8 billion visits to restaurants and food - service outlets in 2016 — which would be the highest figure since before the Great Recession.

According to global consulting firm Mercer's 2015 cost of living ranking, Shanghai has the sixth - highest cost of living in the world this year, up four places from last year; Beijing has the seventh - highest, also up four places, and Shenzhen and Guangzhou are at 14th and 15th most expensive, both up a number of places from 2014 — making all those cities more expensive than New York City.

Shanghai, population 24 million - plus, houses in more than 120 skyscrapers 500 feet or higher the offices and regional headquarters for dozens of major global and Chinese firms.

The Taoyuan City - based firm has been attempting to refocus its growth prospects on the high - end VR business, with shipments of the Vive headset totalling more than 190,000 units in the first quarter, according to research firm IDC.

Daily - deal pioneer Groupon and social - gaming firm Zynga, which both achieved big valuations based on little more than high expectations, are tanking.

The firm's sweet spot is in the mid - to high - end market — kitchen remodeling, for instance, ranging from $ 70,000 to more than $ 300,000.

Shares in Nintendo jumped 10 percent to their highest level in more than two months with the stock the most heavily traded by value on Tokyo's main board and giving the firm a market value of about $ 23 billion.

The merger will allow AT&T / Time Warner to negotiate for even higher prices for Turner content than Time Warner could before the merger because the merged firm can credibly commit to walking away from a deal if, say, cable company A balks at the price.

So it may come as no surprise that the top five highest - earning elected women serving in governments worldwide, as surveyed by British financial service firm IG Group, coincidentally happen to earn less than their elected male counterparts in an all - gender list of of elected, appointed and lifetime world leaders.

Businesses starting their first plan with fewer than 100 employees might qualify for tax credits as high as $ 500 to offset setup and administrative costs for three years, and employer contributions are tax deductible for the firm.

The rate at which employees forfeit their stock awards, typically by leaving the company before fully vesting, is significantly higher at Amazon than at other large tech firms such as Alphabet and Apple, according to an analysis of company filings.

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn't the decade to do it.

They generally offer a wider range of employment opportunities, higher wages, and better benefits and provide greater job stability than smaller firms.

The recent Edelman Trust Barometer reported that 41 % of people believe company employees rank higher in public trust than a firm's PR department or CEO.

The price of insulin — a lifesaving drug — has reached record highs as Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi raised prices more than 240 percent over the past decade to often over $ 300 a vial today, with price rises frequently in lockstep, according to information technology firm Connecture.

Mr. Goldfarb was the co-author of a 2013 report that said privacy regulation could be anti-competitive because the cost of getting permission from users for their data was typically much higher for a younger company than for an established firm.

Startup firm Hyperloop Transportation Technologies announced that it has licensed cheaper, safer technology than the magnetic levitation currently used in high - speed trains.

This type of equity investor differs from angel investors and other equity investors as the firms are primarily interested in high - value opportunities (think millions of dollars rather than thousands or tens of thousands of dollars).

Part of the reason is that U.S. firms operating abroad earn higher rates of profit than foreign firms operating here.

Goldman Sachs has named R. Martin Chavez as the new Chief Information Officer less than a month after Goldman Sachs suffered a high profile trading systems glitch, potentially costing the firm millions of dollars and prompting an internal review.

Reinganum found that the portfolio containing the smallest firms realized an average rate of return more than 20 % higher than the portfolio containing the largest firms.

It has raised more than $ 4 billion in outside equity and debt financing; its investors include a Who's Who of Silicon Valley venture - capital firms (Greylock, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz) and a number of high - profile individuals, such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

[4] The extremely short - term strategies of high - frequency trading firms represent more than half of all trading volume.

U.S. residents do in fact earn more on their assets than they pay on their liabilities, and U.S. firms operating abroad earn a higher rate of return than do foreign firms operating in the United States.

This firm's industry - leading distribution network has driven consistent profit growth, higher margins than competitors and a leading market share.

As a result, many mutual funds — which might be better performing but have higher expenses than other investment vehicles — would fall off of brokerage firms» platforms.

By the end October, Canadian companies were involved in more than 426 deals worth $ 68 billion, a three - year high, according to M&A analytics firm Mergermarket, and there was still more than a month left to go at press time.

For example, a utility company with a single power generation facility in an area prone to natural disasters is probably far riskier despite having a higher interest coverage ratio than a more geographically diversified firm with a slightly lower metric.

It's just that demand is too high, so firms decide they can increase profits by raising their prices above other firms» prices rather than continuing to produce enough output to meet demand at existing prices.

Downloads over the past few weeks have been higher than average, according to research firm Mobile Action.

Considering that WMT already has more scale and margins nearly 4x higher than Amazon's margins, it is fair to say that Wal - Mart has a strong competitive advantage over Amazon as it does over all other firms in the general retail business.

The financial data firm classifies positive guidance as an EPS estimate that's higher than the mean estimate before the guidance was issued.

NMSDC corporate members recommend high - potential MBEs with sales greater than $ 5 million in manufacturing and $ 3 million in service firms for participation in the four - day program.

For instance, advisors from large firms report a slightly higher net worth ($ 1.9 M) for their typical client than do advisors from independent firms ($ 1.7 M).

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.