Sentences with phrase «last year valued»

Google's investment last year valued the business at $ 650 million, reports Quartz.

Where Income is based on a 4.5 % withdrawal rate applied on 20 % of this year's portfolio value, say 18 % of lasts years value, 16 % of the years before (you can tweak the % figures to suit) but the principle is to base the rate on previous years values with a weighting for the more recent years.

Not exact matches

Buzzfeed, which now has 1,300 employees around the world, was valued at about $ 1.7 billion after NBCUniversal added to its stake in the online news outlet late last year.

A lot has changed in crude oil markets in North America in the last few years, and these changes have had significant impacts on the value of Western Canadian crude production.

«In my paper, I read about a mattress company that floated on AIM yesterday and raised # 35 million, is now valued at # 140 million, but last year made an EBITDA loss of # 11 million,» Walsh said at Tuesday's conference.

Bitcoin skidded a further 12 % on Wednesday, marking an almost halving in value from its peak price, with investors spooked by fears regulators could clamp down on the volatile cryptocurrency that skyrocketed last year.

A tax hike in Western Australia stands to lower the value of a massive gold deposit and further drive apart its owners: the world's biggest producers of the metal who have spent the last two years debating what the mine is worth.

When American Express raised the annual fee on the Platinum Card by $ 100 last year, the company made it up to users by adding an extra $ 200 in value to the card's benefits in the form of a statement credit toward Uber rides.

In late 2013, Cowboy Ventures did an analysis of U.S. - based tech companies started in the last 10 years that are now valued at $ 1 billion.

Three years removed from a controversial price hike that sent subscribers scrambling and stock values into free - fall, founder and CEO Hastings reigns as the king of new media: Netflix added 2.82 million U.S. streaming - video subscribers during the first half of 2014, up from 2.66 million during the same period last year.

Ask yourself: Has the value your adviser provided more this year than last, or has your situation changed so much that it calls for an increase in your fee?

They create companies, they create value, and they create jobs — 619,631 of them over the last three years.

Nokia paid almost $ 200 million for the company in 2016, but wrote down the value by $ 164 million last year.

Because the performance - based stock grants also aren't worth anything until Valeant stock hits $ 60, the current value of Papa's paycheck last year is much lower, or about $ 14.7 million.

Despite the high quality, the average dollar - per - litre value of WA wine has dropped in the last five years, which Ms Dent attributes to competition pressure pricing premium producers out of the market.

Take - private transactions topped IPO values in three of the last six years (four if you take out Facebook's IPO).

This led to tax refunds underperforming last year's year - to - date value by about $ 25 billion up until the massive windfall, which made it appear like there may be an economic problem.

Commercial developers have engaged in their own orgy of debt - fuelled construction projects, bidding up land values threefold last year and erecting countless office towers, malls and hotels.

Together they earned $ 890 billion in profits last year, have a total of $ 19 trillion in market value, and employ 28.2 million people worldwide.

What really stands out in terms of value, though, is that the Winix has a longer - lasting, washable HEPA filter, which can be cleaned up to six times before having to replace it in about three years.

BP has defended its stance on boardroom pay, despite the rising ire among investors, who have seen the value of their shares drop by 24 % in the last year.

It raised $ 112 million last year, valuing the company at nearly $ 1 billion.

The value of Canadian gas exports last year fell to $ 13.1 billion, from a peak of $ 35.6 billion in 2005, and analysts project the U.S. will become a net gas exporter within a decade.

In two moves last year, the company lopped $ 2.9 billion off Safeway's book value — half what it paid for the business.

Sotheby's has been a strong performer in the stock market recently, gaining more than 138 % in value after hitting a low of $ 19.13 in mid-February last year.

It's not clear, however, that the company learned its lesson: After eliminating the Extra Value Menu last year, it launched the Dollar Menu & More, which is another hodgepodge of offerings McDonald's (at least) considers good deals.

Like Twitter and dozens of other companies that have gone public in the last couple of years, GrubHub took advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act of 2012, which lets small companies valued at $ 1 billion or less to file for an initial public offering in private, and just a few weeks before it intends to debut.

The better - educated cohort also sold 53 % more (by dollar value) last year and created 6 % more full - time jobs.

After fighting unsuccessfully to reverse generic drug laws last year, and the sudden resignation of its CEO, Shoppers Drug Mart has suffered a 17 % drop in «brand value,» to $ 2.6 billion, according to a study conducted by researcher Interbrand.

The company's shares have lost value in each of the last two years after a seven - year streak of gains.

The Yankees» value, which grew 9 % over the last year, dwarfs that of the second - place Los Angeles Dodgers, who are worth $ 2.75 billion.

If our value screen last year was the GPS, Encana Corp. was the lake, hidden in darkness and fog.

This is a great source of offline advertising because you pay for the cost up front and the value lasts for years.

Over the last 52 years (that is, since present management took over), per - share book value has grown from $ 19 to $ 172,108, a rate of 19 % compounded annually.»

But over the last few years, careers in social media have exploded as companies realize the value of reaching their customers on the medium where they spend most of their time.

(«The underpinning strategy is creating value for shareholders,» he told Canadian Business last year.

If there are two things marketers and advertising people have heard and talked about ad nauseam over the last few years, it's the importance of social media engagement and the increasing value of live sports on TV.

And it's still early days for alternative lending; P2P lending companies in the US originated $ 6.6 billion in loans last year, however, the total value of revolving US consumer debit was about $ 800 billion.

Last year, at least 24 states reviewed or made decisions to study the value of rooftop solar, according to the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center, which compiles a database of state renewable energy incentives.

Before taking the company public last year, Mellinger instituted an education program to explain to employees how the stock was valued and how options work.

World stocks rose 20 percent last year, significantly outpacing the average on bond markets, meaning the relative value of funds» equity holdings has increased without a single new share being bought.

Also last year, the Congressional Budget Office issued a report suggesting the bank may cost taxpayers money after all, using the fair - value accounting method, which accounts for market risks of the loans the agency makes.

It's the latest in a relentless parade of damaging news for the Silicon Valley upstart, which was valued last year at $ 9 billion, the most of any venture - backed company working in health care today.

The media startup, valued at $ 11 billion in its latest round of funding, says the number of «pinners,» or people sharing images and links, has doubled on its platform in the last 18 months and the number of searches on its service have increased by 81 % over the last year.

Founded in 2007, Magor has developed a collaborative telecommunications technology and Wesley Clover took the company public on TSXV last year in a qualifying transaction valued at $ 5.9 million.

Merger activity this year is down 14 percent from this time last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, which cited the lower dollar value of deals in the health care and materials sectors.

Perhaps the most high - profile example of how such misconduct can destroy value is Uber, the ride - sharing company rocked by allegations of harassment and sexism early last year.

Indeed, much of what Whitman has accomplished over the last five years involved reversing what her predecessors did — or unlocking value, as so many financial analysts call it.

HTC's market value has slumped about 75 percent in the last five years to $ 1.8 billion as its smartphone market share dipped below 2 percent.

Under the rules handed down by the Fed last year, the cap for debit - card fees was set at 21 cents per transaction, plus 0.05 percent of the value of the purchase and a 1 - cent fraud - prevention fee for the big banks.