Sentences with phrase «less returns in»

At first look, it makes little sense for a product that costs more to produce, and yields less returns in the form of trade - ins and renting for the publisher, to be priced down when compared to its ephemeral online counterpart.

I feel now we are paying too many premiums with less returns in long run.

Sales Units are in the first left column, less returns in second column, with net sales the third column.

Not exact matches

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway raised its per - share book value 14.4 % in 2012, less than the S&P 500's 16 % total return.

Coremetrics claims most customers get a return for their investment in less than 12 weeks.

You need to be prepared to show him a tangible, concrete return on investment and to do it in less than 15 minutes.

That model, he says, should allow B of A to grow revenues more or less in line with GDP, while returning 100 % of earning to shareholders in dividends and buybacks.

Average annual core return on equity over a period is the ratio of: a) the sum of core income less preferred dividends for the periods presented to b) the sum of: 1) the sum of the adjusted average shareholders» equity for all full years in the period presented, and 2) for partial years in the period presented, the number of quarters in that partial year divided by four, multiplied by the adjusted average shareholders» equity of the partial year.

Some of their other projections feel less futuristic and more like a return to some of the practices (promoting strong values and building smart partnerships) that have made companies great in the past.

They get rewarded in many other ways than pure financial returns — including creating stronger suppliers, putting control levers in their industry, testing products, de-risking innovation, and engineering less expensive acquisitions.

The half page could bring in double the response, which might be more or less the same return to you — or it can bring in 500 percent higher response.

Second, while it makes sense that an environment in which investments, like government debt, are yielding a smaller return might cause people to spend less today in order to make their retirement goals, there just isn't a lot of evidence that this happens in the real world.

A half - percentage - point difference in fees will translate into thousands of dollars less in total return over an investor's lifetime.

The eurozone's central bankers, as well as some of the less charitable politicians in the region's lending countries, say Spain must first request that money from the central bailout funds and agree to stringent conditions in return for support.

Returns were higher and markets less volatile during the holy month in 14 Muslim nations between 1989 and 2007, according to a 2009 paper co-authored by a group of university professors from New Zealand, the U.S. and the U.K..

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivitIn researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivitin terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

You have to live in certain states in order to file your federal return for free using ezTaxReturn.com, and you also must earn $ 66,000 or less.

«By making it less punitive for companies to bring back this money and making the process far less bureaucratic and difficult, we can return trillions and trillions of dollars to the economy and spur billions of dollars in new investments in our struggling communities and throughout our nation,» Trump said.

In less than 30 years, my return will be 4x.

If the same person instead invested a little less each year (6 % of his income) in a portfolio weighted 80 % to higher - returning equities and 20 % to bonds, he would only have $ 469,000 at retirement.

It's rare for any stock to see a 188 % return in a year, but it's even less common to see that same stock obliterate market returns for a second year in a row.

Because the other entrepreneurs in the cohort don't stand to make a return, their decisions are based less on planning a quick exit and more on the potential impact that start - up could have.

They are less likely to scrutinize every comma and semicolon in your business plan, or to demand a high return on their investment.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

A few recent examples include Cornell, who came in from Sam's Club to run the American food business and left less than two years later for Target; John Compton, the former president, who left in 2012 for a short stint running Pilot Flying J but didn't return when it didn't work out; and Zein Abdalla, his replacement, who retired abruptly in December.

«I would rather invest in my employees than pay the cost of them returning exhausted and with less passion for their work, or worse, leaving us later for another company with better benefits,» she says.

We find historical comparisons less useful in a world of structurally lower interest rates — and believe it's important to rethink returns.

In the chase for more return with less risk, one market watcher went yield hunting on the S&P 500.

And by opening up too many stores and making their merchandise too widely available, Michael Kors inadvertently cheapened their experience in the eyes of their customers — making them less likely to return to their stores.

PC World readers rated OfficeMax better - than - average in two categories: Return Experience and Store Design, though Consumer Reports readers were less enthusiastic.

Most investors shy away from bonds because they yield (or return) less than equities and tend to be more complex in nature.

If you sell a quality product, accurately described in your marketing, at a price that's fair in relationship to its value, your return rate will be low — probably less than 5 percent.

Such is the lot of honest Greeks: to pay ever more while receiving ever less in return.

Coke saw returns in 2014 of less than 6 % and Pepsi of just over 17 %.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

Eventually, the member pushing the initiative may settle for a less egregious violation in return for withdrawing the threatened point of order.

While not feasible in most states, they can be great investments in a few states and the returns are more or less guaranteed by law.

Many investors accept less than the 3.75 % rate of return to fund start - ups, sometimes in return for equity.

They also allow those investors to avoid the high costs of stock - brokerage commissions and financial planning fees that eat into returns, as well as the risks of investing in individual companies that may choose less - competent leaders or run into unforeseen problems.

BLK plans to invest in smaller firms that analysts cover less and therefore might be under - or overvalued, and returns will be judged using the Russell 2000 Index as a benchmark.

Barring a very short horizon — say two years or less — a 30 % -40 % cash position would likely result in a negative after - inflation return.

Inversely, if the market returns to normal after month 2, as the example states, and your principle has now already accumulated 10 % of month 3 before investing, you are only putting in the remaining 90 % of month 3 and thus throw less money at a more expensive market with the same end result.

Principal value and investment return will fluctuate with changes in market conditions, and an account in the pool may be worth more or less than the original amount contributed to the account.

That return also implied that without the alternative minimum tax, which Trump wants to repeal, he would have paid less than 3.5 percent of his income in federal income taxes.

As a result, past returns have been somewhat higher than 10 % annually, but that also means that stocks are now priced to deliver far less than 10 % annually in the future.

The critical observation, however, is this metric is no less correlated with actual subsequent returns than in the past.

Another problem is that if capital returns have become far more uncertain, then the stocks should have become less attractive in recent years rather than more.

The young worker may face a lower effective inflation rate and earn a higher average portfolio return, and thus may be less exposed to a sustained rise in inflation.

Why leave money in equities, and risk another year of lost opportunity, when fixed income securities seem to be on the road to higher (and less risky) returns?

Among this group, which invested in more than 500 companies, 45 % of their investments failed to return 100 % of capital, while 34 % returned less than half.