Sentences with phrase «industrial companies as a whole»

NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters)- U.S. industrial companies as a whole have been reporting strong first - quarter results, but in general that has not been enough to lure investors to their shares.

U.S. industrial companies as a whole have been reporting strong first - quarter results, but in general that has not been enough to lure investors to their shares.

Not exact matches

As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»

Well - managed industrial companies do not, as a rule, distribute to the shareholders the whole of their earned profits.

This is an easy way to invest in whole portfolio companies that mine, process, or sell gold to industrial customers as well as the retail public.

A stock index represents a group of the most heavily traded stocks in a particular category, like the 30 largest industrial companies (Dow ®), or the largest tech firms (Nasdaq ®) and reflects the movement of the market as a whole, rather than one company.

When mutual funds first appeared in the 1920s, Ferri explains, there wasn't even a generally accepted benchmark for the market as a whole: the Dow Jones Industrial Average had been around since 1896, but it contained just 12 companies (increased to 30 in 1928), was weighted by price, and has never been a good measure of the stock market as a whole.

In comparison, the equity REIT sector as a whole posted returns of 28 % in 2010, while the average total return for companies traded on the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 13.8 %.