Sentences with phrase «large stockholders»

We don't know anything about Mr. Scott, but we like to see large stockholders increasing their stakes when the stock price drops.
Bebchuk has argued that the disclosure rules for large stockholders don't need to be changed.
As large stockholders, we have enjoyed a productive and collaborative dialogue with Joe Tucci and EMC's Board and management.
Elon Musk, Tesla's chairman, chief executive, and largest stockholder, has placed much of the blame on a misconception among Chinese consumers that charging is difficult there.
On Monday, Icahn announced that he had boosted his stake in Xerox (xrx) to 8.13 %, making him the company's second largest stockholder.
Save for the New Yorker, in which the largest stockholder is Raoul Fleischman but the directing head Harold Ross, the only important Jewish general magazines are the American Mercury and Esquire.
Mr. Hoffman was selected to serve on our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as one of our founders and as one of our largest stockholders, as well as his extensive experience with technology companies.
Control risks: Because the company's founders, directors and executive officers may be among the company's largest stockholders, they can exert significant control over the company's business and affairs and have actual or potential interests that may depart from yours.
That makes him Facebook's fourth largest stockholder behind company CEO Mark Zuckerberg and two mutual funds, Fidelity Management and Vanguard.
News Corp's second largest stockholder is Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia.
THE FRONT OFFICE William Daley, president of Otis & Co., a Cleveland investment - banking firm, is Indians» largest stockholder (45 %) and chairman of the board, but key man in front office is Vice-president Nate Dolin, who formed syndicate which bought Indians from Bill Veeck in 1949.
Rep. Chris Collins has boasted about how much money he's made for other members of Congress by tipping them off to an Australia - based pharmaceutical company in which he is the largest stockholder, two GOP lawmakers told The Hill.
Upstate New York Power, whose largest stockholders are the California Public Employees» Retirement System (CalPERS), Carlyle Strategic Partners, J.P. Morgan Investment Management and Marathon Asset Management, asked for FERC approval of the deal by Nov. 24 (EC15 - 214).
Rep. Chris Collins (R - N.Y.) has boasted about how much money he's made for other members of Congress by tipping them off to an Australia - based pharmaceutical company in which he is the largest stockholder, two GOP lawmakers told The Hill.
Now we learn that the largest stockholder in the company a fellow congressman, who is not a registered lobbyist, spoke to Price about the illness the company's medicine is trying to treat and cure.
Collins owns more than 17 percent of shares in Innate Immunotherapeutics, according to the company's website, making him its largest stockholder.
«If it wasn't bad enough that Chris Collins was pushing legislation to benefit a company that he's the largest stockholder of, now we find out that he doubled down on this egregious offense by urging other members of Congress to join his money - making scheme,» said Basil A. Smikle Jr., executive director of the New York State Democratic Committee.
The largest stockholder is Osmium Partners, which is run by the activist investor, John Lewis.
SEEKING APLHA - Apr 25 - Spark Networks» management is finally changing its practices, as the largest stockholder just turned activist.
On Monday, Barnes & Noble said its board of directors received notice from Leonard Riggio, the company's founder, largest stockholder and chairman of the board, that he plans to offer to purchase all assets of the company's retail business.
Riggio, the chain's founder, largest stockholder, and chairman of the company's board, is looking to buy both the Barnes & Noble Booksellers brick - and - mortar business and Barnesandnoble.com, according to an SEC filing.
Strategic Committee to Evaluate Sale of Retail Business On February 25, 2013, the company announced that its Board of Directors has received notice from Mr. Leonard Riggio, the Company's founder, largest stockholder and Chairman of the Board, that Mr. Riggio plans to propose to purchase all of the assets of the retail business of Barnes & Noble.
Huseby and Klipper will report to Barnes & Noble's executive chairman and largest stockholder, Leonard Riggio.
Today's earnings come a few days after B&N's founder, chairman and largest stockholder, Leonard Riggio, offered to buy the chain's 689 retail stores and take them private.
William Lynch is being replaced by Michael Huseby, who was the company's CFO and who will report directly to Len Riggio, the B&N executive chairman and largest stockholder.
As the Company's largest stockholder, we share the interest of all stockholders in protecting and preserving our investment.
We are waging this effort because (a) we feel a sense of responsibility to do so on behalf of all stockholders given our unique position as the largest stockholder and (b) we believe it is the right thing to do, especially in the context of the current economic environment caused, in part, by similar self - serving managements and Boards.
Speaking on behalf of BVF, Mark Lampert, BVF's General Partner, stated, «As the largest stockholder in Avigen, holding 8,819,600, or approximately 29.63 % of Avigen's outstanding shares, we are worried that this Board is embarking on a path that will use the companies cash and valuable assets in a misguided transaction which offers no downside protection to stockholders — a key feature of the proposed merger with MediciNova.
We recently acquired a significant number of Shares and became the largest stockholder of Avigen.
• This power of activist value investing usually comes from having the capital to buy significant stakes in poorly managed firms and using these large stockholder positions to induce management to change their behavior.
«As Autobytel's second largest stockholder and the beneficial owner of approximately 7.4 % of Autobytel's outstanding common stock, we have studied this business carefully.
In a recent decision, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that a stockholder vote approving both stock issuances and the grant of a voting proxy to the company's largest stockholder was «structurally coerced» and therefore...
Over the years Scott worked his way up the ranks in the small MLS company until becoming the company President and second largest stockholder.

Not exact matches

Qualcomm said on Tuesday it had entered into agreements with nine NXP stockholders, who collectively own more than 28 percent of NXP, including top shareholder Soroban Capital Partners LP and second - largest Elliott.
Bethesda, MD and Stamford, CT, April 8, 2016 — Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) announced that at separate special stockholder meetings today the stockholders of both companies approved proposals relating to Marriott's acquisition of Starwood, which will create the world's largest hotel company.
With total stockholder returns up by 51 % in 2014, solid net income growth, and return on capital employed of 16.5 %, Dr. Pepper Snapple outperformed its two larger rivals Coke and Pepsi.
The Compensation Committee also considered that the annual cash incentive plan already incentivizes performance on three key Company - specific financial measures, and the importance of emphasizing holistic Company performance, as opposed to an isolated metric; the importance of setting a sufficiently difficult target for maximum payout; the benefit of a large and objectively determined performance comparator group; and the overarching goal of an incentive clearly and directly aligned with stockholder interests.
This diverse expertise and experience, gained in most cases from leading large, complex organizations, provide the Board as a whole with the ability to fulfill its oversight responsibilities to the Company's stockholders.
Based on Allergan's response to Valeant's prior overture, however, and as corroborated by analyst commentary in February 2014, which underscored that Allergan would not be interested merging with Valeant — particularly where Allergan's stockholders would be compensated in large part with Valeant stock — Valeant was well aware that a friendly business combination would not likely occur, and conceded as much later on.
Absent the tax payment, the number of shares received in each award would be larger by an amount equal in value to the forgone tax payment, thereby having a dilutive effect on our stockholders» equity interest in FedEx.
Broadcasters are considered by their stockholders to be acting in an economically responsible way if they provide programs that are produced very cheaply — even if the programs contain much unnecessary violence — if, in doing so, they reach the largest possible audience and make the largest number of sales and highest possible profits.
In fact, networks would be considered economically irresponsible by their stockholders if they did not provide the cheapest possible programs to reach the largest possible audience, regardless of content, in order to make the largest number of sales and profits.
As a result of the agreement, the Fund withdrew the shareholder proposal it had filed for consideration at Goodyear's annual stockholders» meeting, as well as with Nisource, which is one of the largest natural gas and electric utility companies in the United States.
In order to develop a larger enterprise and the higher executive compensation that often goes with that, management may engage in developmental projects that do not represent the best interest of stockholders.
I do not begrudge him such compensation, so long as he does not begrudge stockholders a large dividend.
After all, the spinoff hits the market with a large number of neutral, if not reluctant, stockholders who have limited expectations for it, and who are willing to sell when they get around to it.
After all, a spinoff hits the market with a large number of neutral, if not reluctant, stockholders who have limited expectations for it, and who are willing to sell when they get around to it.
The number of companies that have created enormous long - term wealth in India for their stockholders is large enough to be noticed.
13) In the foreseeable future will the growth of the company require sufficient equity financing so that the larger number of shares then outstanding will largely cancel the existing stockholders» benefit from this anticipated growth?
The title is a nod to Benjamin Graham's landmark 1932 Forbes article, Inflated Treasuries and Deflated Stockholders, where he discussed the large number of companies in the US then trading at a discount to -LSB-...]
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