Sentences with phrase «highs of years past»

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Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

Combine that with a sparkling balance sheet and its history of never cutting its dividend — the yield is now 2.5 % — and its beaten - down share price (down by a third over the past two years) looks like an opportunity to pick up a high - quality bargain.

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

The complaints from media outlets have been coming for the past several months, with some reports of sudden traffic declines as high as 40 % compared with last year.

That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

Bob Lachky, a marketing executive who spent 25 years working at competitor Anheuser - Busch gave this campaign some high praise: «It was arguably one of the greatest campaigns over the past 30 to 40 years.»

It isn't within everyone's means to obtain aircraft for a prison escape, but it's easier to get out of prison by air than underground: Over the past 40 years in particular, there has been trend of convicts and their partners on the outside busting out from high security facilities in hijacked helicopters.

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

South Korea's new management - minded approach is a dramatic turnaround from its energetic regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges this past year, alarmed at a heated market that saw local prices of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies in South Korea trade for higher than international levels.

For the past two years, it's had the highest year - over-year growth of any Buffalo Wild Wings location in the country and is still growing.

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

In fact, the comments section of the above mentioned article has many stories of people who did sell in past years because they thought house prices were too high, only to subsequently watch from the sidelines as prices continued to march upward.

But unlike in past years, consumers will have to shop around to get the best deal, as some of the major wireless carriers have decided to sell the new Samsung models for 10 % or more higher than the list price.

Their declining currencies against the dollar (8 - 9 percent over the past 12 months), falling stock market values since the beginning of the year and high (India) and rising (Brazil) bond yields are reflecting their funding difficulties.

Their average five - year growth rate of 1,933 % is also higher than that of any other class in the past five years.

During the past six years, we've realized a common denominator across all campaigns that generate north of $ 1 million: High - quality marketing assets.

In Malawi, for example, which had the highest business closure rate in the world, women shuttered businesses at a rate of 30 percent over the past two years, compared to about 25 percent for men.

Camera technology has also increased over the past year, so expect a lot of those drones to be capable of shooting 4K video and capturing high - quality stills.

Energy companies have made up a good portion of debt issued in the high yield market over the past few years.

A group of companies that spend the least on employee pay has outpaced a basket of high - labor cost stocks by 13 percentage points over the past year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.

Over the past 30 years, instructor TJ Walker has trained tons of high - profile clients in public speaking.

«This stock is still making lower highs for the past few years, I am very skeptical of this move, and if it's truly marking a change in the long - term trend,» Wald said Tuesday on CNBC's «Trading Nation.»

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).

Maduro's approval has also hovered around 20 % over the past two years, which is not high, but is noteworthy in light of the turmoil in Venezuela over that time.

Over the past year, technology companies Uber and Waymo (the self - driving business spun out of Google) have been engaged in a battle of wills, culminating in a high - profile court case that commenced last week.

Meanwhile, Samsung took less than two years to become the bestselling smartphone seller (for each of the past three quarters), grabbing high - end market share from the almighty iPhone.

Because of my high profile over the past few years, the government officials, the rich people, have not liked to interact with me.

Today, the bachelor's degree is the high school diploma of years past.

The moves are the latest ways Trump is seeking to reshape the Federal Reserve, which has seen a high level of turnover in the past two years.

However, the loonie has now been near parity for four of the past five years... [we] are still waiting for the promised benefits of a high - flying loonie.

For the past 15 years, Goldman Sachs has been tracking S&P 500 companies with the highest hedge fund ownership, along with its Hedge Fund VIP List, a set of companies that appear most in hedge funds» top 10 holdings.

Tony Robbins, the performance coach best known for his high - energy speeches, has made a crusade of spreading personal finance education the past couple of years.

Thanks in part to his example, over the past few years, several high - profile CEOs have come out against the norm of constant busyness.

Over the past two years, a growing number of U.S. banks has capped their directors» earnings, but the ceilings are so high that they primarily serve to fend off potential shareholder litigation rather than control the pace of pay increases.

Instead, her costs have gone up nearly 30 percent in the past year alone, and she now pays $ 10,000 for a high - deductible plan that covers less of her health care needs than in prior years, Olsen says.

The private valuation of super-secretive startup Palantir may have been cut in half to under $ 10 billion in the past two years, but CEO Alex Karp tells CNBC the company's data analysis services are in high demand.

Though productivity apps only make up a small 4 % of time spent, their share doubled over the past year, higher growth than any other category.

But it is just the highest - profile case in a growing flood of data breaches that have risen in sophistication over the past five years.

We talked for a few minutes about William's childhood (he dropped out of high school in Amsterdam at 15 to become a DJ), his past work experience (he was a party planner for years), and how he had heard about us (he attended Hustle Con last year).

While they have higher costs than Spirit because they target business travelers and must maintain multiple types of planes, lower fuel prices in the past year have let them profitably chop their fares.

Out of more than 600 jobs tracked by Statistics Canada, the following 10 professions had the best combination of high wages and employment growth over the past five years.

Over the past year, historically high levels of unemployment have left record numbers of highly skilled individuals looking for work.

According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the past three years back in March of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this year.

In the past two years, Unilever has used its mountain of free cash (about $ 5.1 billion last year) to snap up small brands — ones that sell for higher prices in stores.

In fact in the past five years ALL of the top 5 highest - value public companies are tech companies.

They are approaching their high for the past year of $ 26.16 set on March 26.

«We are beginning to see some deterioration in the credit quality of oil and gas loans to borrowers that used high volumes of debt to finance their growth over the past several years,» Grant Wilson, director of commercial credit for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a banking regulator, told Bloomberg in an interview.

Finding ways to calm nervous investors may seem like a good idea after the high emotion of the past two years, but the notion may lose its appeal once the market recovers and advisers revert to analyzing numbers, not people.

However the high gasoline prices of the past year and increased acceptance of home - charged electric cars are helping condition consumers to adopt urban vehicles with limited range as a trade - off to escape the high cost of gasoline.

Because of these efforts, the country boasts the highest amount of foreign investment in the Middle East — $ 141 billion in the past five years alone.