Sentences with phrase «increases shareholder return»

While this increases shareholder return, it also means that REITs are often unable to finance expansion from operating income, and instead often must issue equity and debt for expansion and growth.

Another strategy that management can use to increase shareholder returns for a mature company is through shareholder buybacks.

Not exact matches

Apple said it will increase the program by returning $ 200 billion in cash to its shareholder by the end of March 2017.

She has increased value for shareholders, but while each share of HP held since she took over has returned 120 % (inclusive of the separation and spinoffs), that lags the S&P 500's 149 %.

Waste management company Tox Free Solutions has posted a slight increase in profit despite a dip in revenue, but has increased its return to shareholders.

Buffett's annual letter to shareholders, released today, speaks of the Coke holding, in a section describing dividend increases that he thinks will be materializing and helping out Berkshire's returns.

In that time, shareholders earned a 500 percent return, market cap increased from $ 700 million to $ 10 billion, and client assets reached $ 280 billion.

In a note, analyst Michael Senno wrote that «as an owner of sports cable networks and teams, we believe that MSG is well positioned to capitalize on the increasing value of premium sports content, which should result in AOCF and free cash flow growth above its peers and, combined with incremental leverage, lead to solid shareholder returns.»

«We also continued to invest in our commercialization capabilities, while returning significant cash to our shareholders — including a 16 percent dividend increase.

EQT's compensation structure encourages managers to make decisions that will increase total shareholder return, EQT spokesperson Natalie Cox said in a statement.

We used this cash to further reduce net debt and increase returns to shareholders through higher dividends,» Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie said in a statement.

Businesses are under increasing pressure from shareholders and owners to continually optimise the deployment of capital and maximise returns.

«Is it our goal to increase return to our shareholders and do we have an excess amount of capital?

This firm aligns executives» and shareholders» interests by tying compensation to economic earnings and has increased its return on invested capital (ROIC) for five straight years.

Bellwether's investment philosophy is simple; companies with growing profitability and a history of increasing the dividend paid to shareholders inevitably produce above average returns with lower volatility.

For each CEO's tenure, the researchers calculated three metrics: the country - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase in return that's attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market; the industry - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase that results from rising fortunes in the overall industry; and change in market capitalization (adjusted for dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dollars.

At the core of his three - year plan for increasing returns to shareholders was splitting the company into three autonomous businesses and eliminating its central research function.

More allocations to real assets will increase Brookfield's aggregate AUM, which will trickle down into other investment metrics — revenues, funds from operations, and earnings will all increase as a result, leading to superior investment returns for their shareholders.

By providing a lift to a stock's price, buybacks can increase total shareholder return to target levels, resulting in more stock awards for executives.

A shareholder proposal by Carl Icahn of a non-binding advisory resolution that the Company commit to completing not less than $ 50 billion of share repurchases during its 2014 fiscal year (and increase the authorization under its capital return program accordingly)(Proposal No. 10); and

«RESOLVED, that the shareholders hereby approve, on an advisory basis, High River's proposal that Apple commit to completing not less than $ 50 billion of share repurchases during Apple's fiscal year ending September 27, 2014 (and increase the amount authorized for share repurchases under its Capital Return Program accordingly).»

We have increased our dividends by 100 % over the last 3 years, which speaks to the consistent cash flow we generate and our intent to return more capital to shareholders through dividends.

Utilizing the payout ratio, or the percentage of profits a company returns in the form of a dividend to its shareholders, we can get a good bead on whether a company has room to increase its dividend.

Some investors argue that massive share - price increases in 2014 mean that even future successes won't produce strong returns for shareholders buying in at today's prices, but the demand among top pharmaceutical companies for promising drug candidates to add to their pipelines shows few signs of slowing anytime soon, and that could bode well for the sector in the coming year.

You can't argue against an 86-fold increase in shareholder returns over 20 years!

At 44.4 %, however, less than half of the company's earnings are being returned to shareholders via a dividend, providing plenty of room for more increases going forward.

Goldman Sachs in February estimated S&P 500 firms will return $ 1.2 trillion to shareholders via buybacks and dividends in 2018, increasing share buybacks by 23 percent to $ 650 billion this year.

Dividend Payout Ratios provide us valuable information on how much money a company is returning to shareholders and their ability to pay and increase the dividend.

«The over 15 percent increase in our dividend reflects our continued commitment to return capital to shareholders through a balanced approach of quarterly dividends and opportunistically buying back shares,» said Stephen P. Weisz, president and chief executive officer.

However, this shareholder yield backtest did not exhibit a smooth increase in average excess returns from the 1st quintile to the 5th quintile.

«This quarter, we increased tangible book value per share by 11 percent while returning nearly $ 2.2 billion in capital to common shareholders.»

To be explicit on this: when the earnings yield (the inverse of a P / E ratio) is higher than the return on cash, it is beneficial to shareholders in increasing EPS.

Areas where corporations have put this cash to work include: continued dividend increases and share buybacks, which return capital back to shareholders; ongoing investment and capital expenditures as well as research and development; and increasing productivity and lowering cost structures.

«We believe increasing the underlying farmgate returns by $ 1 per kilogram of milk solids by financial year 2017 will deliver the level of return Murray Goulburn supplier / shareholders require to have confidence to invest in their farm businesses and grow milk production,» he said.

For example, how can companies manage the challenges and opportunities posed by the new genome technologies and increase productivity to sustain the historic levels of return to shareholders?

Between a regularly increasing dividend coupled with hefty special dividends, shareholders of RAVN have been the beneficiary of excellent returns back to shareholders.

It has excess capital in reserve and we expect the company to return this excess capital to shareholders through increased dividends and share buybacks.

Their excess capital will eventually be returned to shareholders through buybacks and dividend increases as they continue to pass the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital and Analysis and Review (CCAR).

These banks are now able to move forward with their plans to return cash to shareholders, either in the form of stock buybacks or increasing dividends.

Our shareholder in Phil's Nails seems to believe that if his dividend grows every year, then his returns must also be increasing.

In Corning's 2014 annual statement they confirmed their commitment to returning cash to shareholders, citing their recent 20 % dividend increase and $ 1.5 billion share - repurchase program.

In contrast, banks are for - profit organizations whose earnings may be returned to shareholders in terms or dividends or an increase in share value.

While being paid for holding a stock is attractive to many, and for good reason, shareholders can earn high returns if the value of their stock increases while they hold it.

Through a combination of increasing dividends and aggressive share repurchases, Chubb's high shareholder yield allows it to give investors good returns even without core growth, and in this case, the company would have roughly doubled your money if you had invested seven years ago and reinvested all dividends.

Since FY 2003 Qualcomm has returned over $ 26 billion to its shareholders in the form of increased dividends and share buybacks.

With Caterpillar's history of increasing its dividend, its shareholders can look forward to a substantial bump in the total return of the stock for as long as the shares are owned.

In addition to the 7.6 % capital appreciation (Closing Annualized ROR), long - term shareholders of Franklin Resources Inc would have received an additional $ 27,243.83 in dividends that increased their total return from 8.3 % to 7.6 % per annum.

It seems these companies are able to return cash to shareholders (via dividend raises) on average in the 8 - 12 % range without share buybacks and in 11 - 15 % range with (total shareholder yield) outside of any additional increase in the actual price per share.

Additionally, with at least 25 consecutive years of dividend increases, you know you are in good hands from a return of shareholder capital standpoint.

There is much debate about whether companies should increase shareholder value by repurchasing their shares or returning excess cash to shareholders by way of dividends.