Not exact matches
Allen Lau the CEO of Wattpad weighed in on the
issue and said «
At Wattpad we use HTML5 as our default container because the
value isn't in developing a «
book specific» content format, but rather in ensuring that readers and writers can always access their
books and get the full experience of our product.
Amazon finally
issued a public response to the festering battle with
book publisher Hachette, claiming that the negotiating tactics it has pursued in contract talks are commonplace, justified and aimed
at giving better long - term
value to Amazon shoppers.
To address this
issue, some investors have turned to cyclically adjusted P / E ratios or they look
at other popular measures of the market's
value, such as dividend yields and price - to -
book value.
The price to tangible
book value ratio to some degree overcomes this
issue and more closely represents what common shareholders can expect to receive if the firm goes bankrupt and all of its assets are liquidated
at their
book values.
Example: The following example follows what happens to an owner when his company
issues new shares
at a market
value greater than
book -
value, compared to the same owner who sells his shares in the market for a capital gain.
As shown throughout this website, shareholders benefit from new share
issues for good ROE opportunities when the stock is trading
at multiples of
book value.
If
issued at twice
book value the $ proceeds need only be invested
at half the ROE of the pre-existing assets in order for the EPS to remain the same.
If
issued at 1.5 times
book value, the proceeds need only earn a return equal to 2/3 of the pre-existing ROE for the EPS to remain the same.
Each factor criteria is established
at the top 30 % of
book - to - market (
value), highest past 12 - 1 month return (momentum), past - 36 month total - volatility (low volatility) among approximately 800 large liquid stocks to avoid the liquidity
issues associated with looking
at a basket of liquid small and micro-caps.
E.g if a company
issued additional shares (
at a price greater than
book value) just prior to the last quarter's end, none of the premium's benefit would be showing in earnings.
The second principal feature of a stable
value fund is a «wrap contract»
issued by an insurance company or other financial institution that provides a guaranty that investors will receive the «
book value» of their account, the
value of their initial investments plus interest accrued
at certain intervals of time that reflects the performance of the underlying bond fund.
Corporations which need relatively regular access to equity markets to raise new funds, will tend to pay out 70 % to 80 % of earnings as dividends in order to give these companies enhanced ability to sell new
issues of common stocks, say every 18 months to two years,
at prices reflecting a premium over
book value.
At any time, and for most
issues, G&D have correctly observed that for the stand - alone going concern, the market price of its common stock is likely to be influenced much more by current earnings than by current
book value.
The high dividends attracted investors interested in income and tended to assure companies that they would be able to market add - on
issues of common stock
at prices above
book value.
In 2012, Buffett
issued a share buyback of Berkshire Hathaway stock
at 116 % of current
book value.
This new
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values while discovering how simple living intersects with sustainability —
at the personal and global levels.
38 -LSB-...] the practice
at issue in paragraph 31, second indent, of Annex I to the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive exploits the psychological effect caused by the announcement of the winning of a prize, in order to induce the consumer to make a choice which is not always rational, such as calling a premium rate telephone number to ask for information about the nature of the prize, travelling
at great expense to collect an item of low -
value crockery or paying the delivery costs of a
book which he already has (sic).
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