Sentences with phrase «less profitable companies»

A strategy favoring high B / P companies may favor less profitable companies, increasing investor exposure to «value traps» — those companies that look cheap on their way to zero!

Not exact matches

Moreover, Quattlebaum, a biotechnology entrepreneur himself, estimates that only 20 percent of high tech or biotech companies ever generate revenue, and less than 10 percent will be profitable.

In a little less than two years, Halo Top's relentless sales growth has afforded the founders something most entrepreneurs only dream of: They run a profitable company, at scale.

Although a majority of Inc 500 companies reported that they were profitable in 2001, the companies that started with the most seed capital were less likely to be.

Get this: companies that were started with less than $ 1,000 were about as likely to be profitable as those that were started with more than $ 100,000.

The company warned that Shacks opened in new markets «are likely to be less profitable on average than our Manhattan Shacks and may have higher construction, occupancy or operating costs than Shacks we open in existing markets.»

The result is an overnight success story that was 23 years in the making — and a company that is less expensive to run and more profitable than it was before it shifted away from hosting.

If pre-product, pre-revenue companies (i.e. loss making, just idea stage) can be valued for $ 10 — $ 20 million, why can't Financial Samurai, which is highly profitable, has six years of existence, can pay a nice dividend if it wants to, has way less risk than all these new startups, and can grow revenue by triple digits every year with promotion, be worth a similar range?

Researchers have found that in many, though perhaps not all, cases when corporate directors are «overboarded» — and thus presumably unable to devote their full attention to governance at particular companies — companies are less profitable and have a lower market to book ratio.

The chain should be able to handle that, and there will be a bottom that's still profitable, but this is a company where more locations have proven to be less for investors.

A lot of it may also be that people are still treating this as a highly indebted, risky, poorly operated, and marginally profitable company that it is without looking deeper at the assets that it will still hold after receiving the $ 1.7 billion from Itochu, and how new Dole will now be a much healthier and less risky company

Model 2 — Income Portfolios that are designed to generate income for their owners often consist of investment - grade, fixed income obligations of large, profitable corporations, real estate (most often in the form of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs), treasury notes, and, to a lesser extent, shares of blue - chip companies with long histories of continuous dividend payments.

Of course, this would prove a greater incentive amongst profitable firms who pay taxes (less than one third of Japanese companies).

I mean, profits are absolutely the issue, but selling across states isn't necessarily going to make things less profitable for the insurance companies.

InventoryPro, which serves as a replacement for DealerWire, allows dealers to stock more of the models that sell faster, the company says, while ridding inventories of less - profitable vehicles.

The company's deliveries to daily rental customers, which are less profitable than retail deliveries, are expected to be down approximately 18,000 to 20,000 units, year over year, which will make May the largest single - month decline of 2015 - 2016.

That's how amazing our new Internet companies are — They are less profitable per customer than your kid's paper route.

Behaviorally, people may ignore these potentially profitable, yet also perhaps more boring companies, and instead veer toward potentially more exciting, yet also less stable, growth and lottery - like stocks (for example, because the more exciting stocks tend to be featured in colorful news stories).

We believe these quality companies contain sustainable competitive advantages, creating value as profitable businesses that can, over time, provide attractive returns with less risk than the overall market.

We believe these quality companies possess sustainable competitive advantages, creating value as profitable businesses that can, over time, provide attractive returns with less risk than the overall market.

If a company is seen as cutting back on its growth or is less profitable — either through higher debt expenses or less revenue — the estimated amount of future cash flows will drop.

It wasn't long ago that credit card companies cut out 0 % APR offers and balance transfers since those with better credit tended to also be less profitable as they usually paid off their balances.

That spending can mean greater profits down the road, yet it takes a short - term toll on reported earnings and thus can make companies look less profitable than they really are.

A news event hits, showing that the company will be less profitable than expected by a wide margin.

Since the late 1990s many well run, profitable companies with a market capitalization of less than $ 250 million have watched their share prices underperform the rest of the stock market.

The continually changing regulatory environment has led to greater competition in the industry and the emergence of non-regulated providers as a significant part of the industry, which may make some companies less profitable.

So my takeaway from the post was not about what Buffett did or didn't do early in his career but THAT HE WAS ABLE TO PURCHASE SHARES IN A PROFITABLE COMPANY FOR LESS THAN 2X NORMALIZED EARNINGS!

Institutional and individual activists do seem to focus on poorly managed companies, targeting companies that are less profitable and have delivered lower returns than their peer group.

That's why it's easier (and less profitable) to own a diversified basket of good companies.

Other areas of the company were less profitable, growing more slowly, and had accrual items that were rather complex and subject to differing interpretations.

The marketing cost per new member makes the company less profitable as it sells more services.

«These companies tend to be more profitable and less volatile than their smaller counterparts.»

30 million units with a great tie ratio is still a hugely profitable console - and while the markets may abhor the notion of a company's market share declining in this way, Nintendo is far less in thrall to stock price than most companies in this industry.

In May 2010, American Electric Power announced it planned to run 10 small coal - fired power units on a part - time basis starting in June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the company.

As oil prices remain low, interesting in risky and remote drilling may seem like a less profitable option to oil companies.

Without trade - offs to our personal injury law practice, as a result of a new company structure providing a larger capital base in Australia and the UK, we are now able to offer a wider range of other consumer services including services that critics of nonlawyer ownership claim are the sort of «less profitable services;» that nonlawyer owned firms would stay away from such as: employment law, wills, conveyancing, family law and criminal law.

In less profitable years, if an insurance company sustains more claims and losses than anticipated then they may have to review their insurance premium structure and re-assess the risk factors in what they are insuring.

On an approximate similar amount of revenue of $ 276 Million the company was slightly less profitable in 2016 at $ 20.9 Million vs $ 28.5 Million in 2015.

Because most term life insurance policies never pay a death benefit, as the policyholder is usually still alive when the term comes to an end, the insurance company can charge much less in premiums and remain profitable.

Michael Sivewright, leasing director in the Chicago regional office of Compass Management & Leasing, makes the case that alternative officing will immediately cause a company to require less space, but following that, as the company becomes efficient and more profitable, it will re-invest in growth.

It's becoming less profitable for these private companies to run these properties.