Sentences with phrase «investment company buys»

On Jan. 17, 1994, two weeks after the Los Angeles - based investment company bought the Prairie Court apartment complex in Northridge, Calif., a temblor measuring 6.7 on the Richter Scale rolled through the area, damaging the property of more than 73 units.

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Bezos also has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in his privately owned space company Blue Origin, which successfully launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, the newspaper he bought in 2013.

An investor who bought Google stock 13 years ago at its IPO price of $ 85 would now own a piece of the company worth about 22 times their original investment.

White and partners bought back the company at a fraction of the investment cost, but had to scale back from 60 employees to 3.

-- Springer is actually only buying 88 % of Business Insider, because it already owned a 9 % stake as a result of an investment round in January (which valued the company at less than half what Springer is now paying).

Larry Sarbit, CEO and chief investment officer of Sarbit Advisory Services, only bought one company this year.

In a lot of crypto - type investments, you are buying tokens — therefore, you do not own any equity in the company.

The best buys for today's retirement portfolio are companies that grow dividends annually and expand earnings every quarter, says Renato Anzovino, vice-president and portfolio manager with Heward Investment Management.

While the chief investment officer of Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) can buy things most people can't — toll roads, office towers, stakes in private companies — he takes a value approach to buying, just as many retail invinvestment officer of Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) can buy things most people can't — toll roads, office towers, stakes in private companies — he takes a value approach to buying, just as many retail invInvestment Management Corp. (AIMCo) can buy things most people can't — toll roads, office towers, stakes in private companies — he takes a value approach to buying, just as many retail investors do.

Under its current asset - buying and lending tool, the BOJ limits the duration of government bonds it buys to three years because it wants to push down the cost of borrowing for companies, many of whom work in three - year investment cycles.

One person familiar with the matter said that a group of investors including SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group and General Atlantic would be allowed to buy $ 1 billion to $ 1.25 billion of new Uber shares at a company valuation of $ 69 billion and 14 to 17 % of stock from current investors at a discounted valuation.

Quentin Broad, head of equity research at CIBC World Markets, says it's logical that the majority of ratings would be Buys, since analysts are supposed to provide clients with investment opportunities and can choose from a wide variety of companies to cover.

The survey asked «If a company, bank or investment fund controlled by a foreign government were trying to buy a controlling stake in a major Canadian company, how would you feel if the foreign government were...?»

SoftBank has acquired a 15 % stake in Uber, through a combination of direct investment in the ride - hailing company and through buying the shares of existing Uber shareholder, Uber confirmed on Thursday, weeks after announcing that the transaction was underway.

«Many of the companies we back start out as little features,» says Roloef Botha, a partner with Sequoia Capital who led the company's investment in YouTube, which Google bought for $ 1.65 billion last year.

According to an Associated Press - CNBC poll released Monday, some 36 per cent of Americans say buying stock in the 7 - year - old company would be a good investment, while 47 per cent disagree.

Britain's Enterprise Investment Scheme provides generous tax relief to investors who buy shares in higher - risk early - stage companies.

«Particularly with oil prices hitting lows at some point in the first quarter... lots of sub investment - grade firms could be under a lot of stress, and for those with stronger balance sheets, those companies could take this as an opportunity to buy and acquire assets,» Deshpande said in a phone interview.

And because everything Amazon does ties back to its main e-commerce business, the company's video investment may even cause consumers to buy other stuff on its site.

In 2001, with an investment of $ 1 million, Army vet Hulburt co-founded Rex Energy, an independent energy outfit he grew into a $ 300 million company by buying up oil and gas fields before taking it public in 2007.

«I'm very sympathetic to companies buying back shares,» Mike Thompson, head of S&P Investment Advisory Services, told Business Insider.

British firm Imagination Technologies said on Friday CBFI Investment will buy the company for a price of 182 pence per share, valuing it at about 550 million pounds ($ 742.5 million).

He referred to the trend of companies buying back their shares to drive up their stock price, instead of making investments that will benefit the companies for years to come, as simply being unsustainable and dangerous.

Financial technology company Ion Investment Group said it would buy a controlling stake in Dealogic, which provides financial content and analytics.

He first bought up insurance companies and then a whole host of other kinds of companies, including retailer Nebraska Furniture Mart, See's Candies, catalog company Oriental Trading, ice cream scooper Dairy Queen, underwear maker Fruit of the Loom, railroad firm Burlington Northern, and, most recently in partnership with Brazilian investment firm 3G, ketchup maker Heinz.

Bradley Gastwirth of ABR Investment Strategy says Broadcom has a history of buying companies and getting them into shape.

Your success, as a company and as an investment, will depend on your ability to get customers to buy i service.

While running a little - known lender, Commercial Credit, Weill piled on brokerages (Smith Barney and the retail arm of Drexel Burnham Lambert), investment banks (Salomon Brothers and Shearson Lehman, which he bought back from AmEx), and insurers (Primerica and Travelers, the latter of which names the company ultimately kept).

Sequoia's investment was in the form of a SAFT, or a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens, an emerging fundraising technique in which investors buy a share of cryptotokens from companies.

Among the three companies that bought LEDVANCE from OSRAM, MLS is the only one that was already a manufacturer of LED lighting — IDG Capital and Yiwu are investment firms — so it's no surprise that MLS will now take over production of LEDVANCE's lighting products.

But it doesn't have its own investment vehicle where money is used to directly buy stakes in companies, according to the Journal.

For example, if you need to raise $ 1 million to get your company off the ground, and you believe it will be bought someday for $ 20 million, realize that your investors will want to see their $ 1 million investment turn into $ 10 million when you sell the company.

After 1969, Berkshire became Buffett's investment vehicle and he used revenue from the textile firm to begin buying other companies such as National Indemnity insurance and See's Candy.

But until Google offers to buy it, our company is also the least liquid investment we'll ever own.

«Companies like Gillette are not really known for buying smaller companies,» explains Mark Godfrey, an analyst who follows the industry for Invesco Funds Group Inc., a Denver investment firm that manages $ 30 billion iCompanies like Gillette are not really known for buying smaller companies,» explains Mark Godfrey, an analyst who follows the industry for Invesco Funds Group Inc., a Denver investment firm that manages $ 30 billion icompanies,» explains Mark Godfrey, an analyst who follows the industry for Invesco Funds Group Inc., a Denver investment firm that manages $ 30 billion in assets.

While it is better to buy a low - P / E company over a high one, in today's low - return environment paying a little more for a high - yielding investment can make sense.

Fortune reported last year that Berkshire's Todd Combs, one half of the investment duo that is likely to take over from Buffett when he leaves the company, began buying shares of Precision in 2012.

You should honestly evaluate the additional financial investment your company needs and whether that will further your business or just buy it more time.

HNA's buying binge came to an abrupt halt last summer after the Chinese government identified overseas investments by HNA and several other Chinese companies as posing a systemic risk to China's economy.

DeFrancesco was part of an investment syndicate led by Yogen Früz co-founder Michael Serruya that bought $ 15 - million worth of shares two years ago, providing the company with desperately needed cash, and later exercised another $ 15 million in warrants.

One of them told her they would get out of her way if she would return their original investments — buy them out — but she felt every nickel should go into building the company.

There are lots of strategies for buying a company, and many focus on cash flow and return on investment, but today we look at an example that deals with overcoming everyday business problems.

Mobipocket Two years before launching its first hardware device — the Kindle — Amazon started making investments in the e-reader's underlying technology, which included buying this Paris - based software company that developed an e-file format for physical books.

Fidelity, which bought Zenefits shares in the May investment round, marked down the value of its stake by 48 % as of the end of September, according to data from the investment research company Morningstar.

Two investment funds — Oaktree Capital Management and Primecap Management — collectively control nearly 30 % of Tribune Publishing, the Chicago - based company that received a $ 425 million offer from Gannett to buy its 11 dailies, including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and The Sun in Baltimore.

Rather than buy shares of every company in a given industry or sector, you can get exposure to all of them in a single investment.

Instead of trying to get rich quick with penny stocks, stick to solid companies when formulating your investment strategy, or at least buy companies because you know and love their business.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Warner Bros was considering a Machinima investment that may include an option to buy the entire company.

Our funds have acquired assets from corporate venture capital funds, bought limited partnership positions, and made investments along side our venture fund managers in fast - growing companies.

According to fund tracker Morningstar: «A mutual fund is a basket of stocks, bonds or other types of assets that is professionally managed by an investment company on behalf of investors who don't have the time, know - how or resources to buy a diversified collection of individual securities (stocks, bonds etc.) on their own.