Sentences with phrase «in calls with investors»

Hilton executives have repeatedly said in interviews and in calls with investors that its agreement with HNA contains protections for shareholders.

In an call with investors to discuss first - quarter financial results Tuesday, Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo defended the company's right to offer ESPN and other channels as part of a newly - configured bundle.

In a call with investors in January, McDonald's said that delivery was the biggest contributor to comparable sale growth in several major markets in the fourth quarter.

Roughly 1,500 Taco Bell locations already offer delivery, Yum Brands said in a call with investors on Wednesday.

«The disruption that has characterized the retail industry recently is not going away,» Foot Locker's CEO Richard Johnson said in a call with investors in February.

As Variety notes, Disney CEO Bob Iger also addressed the potential for unifying disparate brands in a call with investors on Thursday, saying, «Bringing Disney and Fox together will combine some of the world's most iconic entertainment franchises.»

«The already challenged restaurant industry has been hit with slowing overall economic growth and the gap between the cost of dining at home compared to dining out,» Dine Equity CEO Julia Stewart said in a call with investors in November.

«Shoppers are spending more of their disposable dollars on categories we don't sell, like cars, healthcare, electronics, and home improvement,» Hoguet said in a call with investors.

Chipotle hinted at new menu items in a call with investors and added quinoa to its New York City test kitchen later in February.

The revamp proved «bold enough and interesting enough» to reverse Diet Coke's negative sales trend, Coca - Cola CEO James Quincey said in a call with investors.

«This unique beauty experience can not be replicated online,» Marvin Ellison, J.C. Penney's CEO, said in a call with investors.

In a call with investors, Sands provided an overview of Constellation's beer portfolio, which includes Mexican import brands Corona Extra, Casa Modelo and Pacifico, as well as Ballast Point.

«Our primary focus continues to be on driving revenue growth opportunities while managing expenses and inventory commitment levels,» for Nook, Huseby said in a call with investors.

In a call with investor's, BofA CEO Brian Moynihan explained that the issuer is looking at a more strategic growth to their card business — focusing on individuals with higher credit scores, over just sheer volume.

«Every day people post billions of pieces of content and connections into the graph,» said Mark Zuckerberg in October 2013 in a call with investors.

In a call with investors, management was frank about the miss, but stressed the strength of its core operations.

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Once the Aetna deal closes sometime in 2018, assuming it passes muster with regulators, customers are likely to see more health clinic - style services at CVS stores, executives suggested on a conference call with investors on Monday.

Shoppers prefer to buy online but return goods in a store, Raj Subramaniam, who heads FedEx's marketing, said on a call with investors last week.

Earlier this week John Doerr, the illustrious investor and chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, proselytized his bible for business management — a system he calls «objectives and key results,» or OKRs — in a video conference call with several Fortune staffers (myself included).

More specifically, the trust that investors had in the company was substantially diminished in the wake of revelations that Valeant had an unclear but apparently too - cozy relationship with specialty pharmacy called Philidor.

He didn't participate in conference calls and would meet with select investors privately.

Activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital — a business partner with Valeant in its failed bid last year for Allergan — offered a spirited defence of the company in a conference call Friday that lasted nearly four hours.

Darden Restaurants CEO Gene Lee revealed the exciting news in a phone call with investors earlier this week.

Bitcoin.com - not to be confused with the non-revenue making bitcoin.org - was founded in 2015 by bitcoin investor Roger Ver, and provides a range of services related to bitcoins, including a bitcoin casino, news services and its so called bitcoin «mining pool» - the site's biggest single source of revenue - where it forges new units of the cryptocurrency to be released for trading.

On a call with investors, in response a question from Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, Musk said that when it comes to raising new money, «I specifically don't want to.»

The issue has to do with the fact that index funds are so - called passive investors, meaning the funds and their managers don't pick the companies they invest in.

Better yet for the company, advertising sales were a «strong contributor» to Amazon much bigger - than - expected profit in the first quarter, said Brian Olsofsky, Amazon's chief financial officer, on a conference call with investors on Thursday.

After a day of talking to regulators in Washington D.C., T - Mobile CEO John Legere said on a call with investors that he is «highly confident about the transaction.»

Exxon Mobil (xom) has stepped up efforts to persuade investors to vote against climate - related proposals at Wednesday's annual meeting with a campaign of calling, writing and lobbying shareholders in person.

The telecom company also marked record low churn, or customer turnover, which COO Mike Sievert on a call with investors attributed in part to the fact that «there are less switchers in the market.»

This way, you can still make a connection with the investor, because in the worst case you will get a call, and in the best case the investor will actually be impressed and ask you to come in for a meeting.

Now he's harnessing his frustration with Wall Street fees in a new venture called FeeX, which calls itself «the Robin Hood of fees» because it strives to put money back into the hands of investors and consumers.

A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin - related Ponzi scheme.

«Despite these challenging conditions, we are pleased with our investment performance, specifically our deployment of capital, appreciation of our existing portfolio and realizations from exits,» co-Chief Executive Kewsong Lee said in an investor call on Tuesday.

Now 35, Karim launched a business called Youniversity Ventures in 2008 aimed at helping students and graduates develop business ideas with early PayPal investors Kevin Hartz and Keith Rabols.

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average experiencing two 1,000 - point drops in recent weeks, and having fielded many, many investors» calls, I was reminded that investors truly do not know how to measure risk.

Much like a pension fund that buys securities with the money that flows in from paycheque deductions, retail investors can contribute equal amounts of money at regular intervals (say, monthly) in a strategy called dollar - cost averaging.

And as so - called unicorns — private companies worth more than $ 1 billion — struggle with lower valuations, less potential investor cash, and more demanding investors in follow - on rounds, it should be a word of warning for startups of all kinds.

Back in the beginning of the year, serial entrepreneur and startup investor Jason Calacanis launched Inside.com, which he called «a mobile - first news reader that's full of external links and story summaries,» with topics ranging from Google to Wonder Woman.

With a new trend of investments in startups now being in place, to actually address ground - level issues plaguing our society, a relatively new venture called UrbanPiper that offers software solutions and Omni - Channel ordering along with loyalty programs for the hotel industry has raised undisclosed venture capital from veteran investor Kumar VeWith a new trend of investments in startups now being in place, to actually address ground - level issues plaguing our society, a relatively new venture called UrbanPiper that offers software solutions and Omni - Channel ordering along with loyalty programs for the hotel industry has raised undisclosed venture capital from veteran investor Kumar Vewith loyalty programs for the hotel industry has raised undisclosed venture capital from veteran investor Kumar Vembu.

(Reuters)- Blackstone Group LP has secured $ 17 billion from investors for its latest global private equity fund in just seven months, the biggest so - called first close of a buyout fund ever, according to people familiar with the matter.

Some foreign investors, rather than crunching data on earnings and stock valuations to come up with investment strategies, actively mimicked the actions of China's so - called «national team» — a group of state - backed financial institutions that were tasked with propping up share prices in the height of the market rout.

One way promoters market these so - called exempt securities to investors is through partnerships with financial self - help gurus who put on seminars in hotel conference rooms.

Some investors are now making calls that the euro zone's central bank could end its massive bond - buying program by the end of next year, with a potential rate increase in the fourth quarter.

Philip Berber, an entrepreneur who founded Austin - based Enable Impact, which connects so - called «impact investors» with companies such as Blue Avocado, says any gap that once existed in returns has diminished.

Back then, shells — that is, companies with ticker symbols but no operations — became synonymous with so - called pump - and - dump schemes in which stockbrokers artificially inflated share prices after a shell merged with a private company, without making financial statements on the acquisition available to investors.

In a conference call with investors, chief operating officer Tim Fenton finally admitted the company had a problem: «We overcomplicated the restaurants and didn't give restaurants an opportunity to breathe.

He told investors in a conference call last month that Dollarama was «a simple business with simple drivers.»

Venture investor and large Twitter shareholder Chris Sacca suggested other ways the company could make money last June, saying it could pursue deeper partnerships with sports leagues, and make money from so called «logged out» users — which Twitter does not get credit for in its monthly active user numbers.

David is often portrayed as somewhat aloof, showing up to board meetings in sneakers, munching sandwiches with small - time investors at AGMs instead of major stakeholders, and calling up the Reuters photo desk to chat photography, according to the Wall Street Journal.