Sentences with phrase «less than book»

Morris read over my work and felt it to be less than a book should be.

Debt less than book value 5.

It wasn't often a vehicle would sell for less than the book value unless it was damaged.

Factor in the sharp drop in the $ A since the start of the year and weakening outlook for commodity currencies, and they might even have to settle for less than book (pure speculation on my part).

In a situation where short - term interest rates rise rapidly, the crediting rate of the stable value fund will lag the rise significantly, leading some to withdraw when the market value of the fund is less than the book value, leading to a possible run on the fund.

This being the case, I don't see how, once the award is confirmed, the value of the business is worth less than book value less a 10 % discount.

If the company is planning acquisitions then it will need the cash, as using shares for acquisition with the shares trading for less than book value makes little sense.

Stocks that sold for less than book value were common.

If the department store is to be liquidated, merchandise inventories are indeed a current asset, convertible to cash within 12 months at prices that conceivably could be close to book value, although much less than book value may be realized if the merchandise is disposed of in a Going Out of Business sale.

Share price is less than book value per share.

Hoard it and keep it in treasury with no intention of deploying it anywhere, in which case, again value is being destroyed and the cash on the balance sheet is worth less than its book value.

If a company is trading for less than its book value (or has a P / B less than one), it normally tells investors one of two things: Either the market believes the asset value is overstated, or the company is earning a very poor (even negative) return on its assets.

``... if the company were actually liquidated the value of the assets would most probably be much less than their book value as shown on the balance sheet.

The last four are led by Berkshire Hills (BHLB), which is a savings and loan based in Pittsfield, Mass., that pays a dividend yield of 3.2 % and trades for less than book value.

And, you can buy it for less than book value.

Perhaps we were casting too wide a net in our comparison — after all, many of those subcategory «best sellers» we were including, particularly the ones from obscure nonfiction categories, were selling less than a book a day in the UK.

Compared to many people's usage of paperbacks, and as a low - cost alternative for casual reader with a less than a book - a-month habit, I think K4 may well hit the mark.

The price will probably help, too: When it goes on sale Nov. 15, it will cost $ 199, which is less than half of the $ 499 you'll pay for Apple Inc.'s cheapest iPad and $ 50 less than book seller Barnes & Noble Inc.'s Nook Color e-reader.

Unless they have a very liberal publisher, they're not publishing several books per year, some times it's less than a book a year.

That's a pretty tough thing to do as most books will sell less than a book a day.

Just after midnight on the 19th, my rank was 461,116 in the Paid Kindle store, which corresponds to less than a book a day.

My purchase price (less than book) for a car that originally had a msrp north of 50,000 is an exceptional value.

WORLD building is at the heart of great science fiction, but it can be tricky at less than book length.

We paid less than book value for our stake and believe BNP's strong balance sheet and high underlying profitability should help mitigate downside risk.

Because AIG sells for less than book value, each share it repurchases increases the book value of the remaining shares.

The average Russian company is selling for just 7.5 times earnings and 20 % less than its book value.

Based on government valuations, companies deciding to renew their concessions under MP 579, such as Eletrobras, would be forced to receive indemnity payments as much as 50 % less than the book value of their assets.

Companies ripe for takeovers often have some of the following traits: • a small capitalization; • a market price less than book value; • a «weak» management team; • ownership of undervalued assets or important patents.

They are possibly quite cheap in India, as most things are quite marked up and maybe they'd cost less than books normally do here.

I love the convenience of it and it is easy to carry in my purse and weighs less than books, even paperbacks.

Man times they have great deals that cost less than booking the location from the source.

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.

The much discussed 2010 book delves into the financial arrangements of the world's poorest citizens, the billions among us who make do with less than $ 2 a day.

And even Zuckerberg concedes that the book is a lot less obviously educational than previous recommendations.

In fact, in Andorra's capital city of Andorra la Vella, a three - star hotel (# 43, or $ 59) is not only just half the cost of the average Airbnb (# 79, or $ 108), but you can book yourself into a five - star hotel for less than the average listing on Airbnb's website too (# 77, or $ 105).

Gittins» company started out as a way for people to make well - designed photo books in somewhat less than an eon.

However, Haberman signed the book deal with fellow NYT White House reporter Glenn Thrush, who was suspended less than two months later following a report by Vox, detailing sexual misconduct allegations against him by several women, including by the article's author.

As backward as it sounds, getting rich often has less to do with the money than the mentality, he writes in his book «How Rich People Think.»

In fact, authors Thomas Stanley and William Danco found in their book «The Millionaire Next Door» that a majority of millionaires reached that goal by spending less than they earned.

To wit: less than two months after Theroux joined eOne, the company announced a multi-territory deal with Summit Entertainment, an up - and - coming Hollywood player getting ready to release a movie based on a vampire book series.

Li quietly negotiated with the bank, now called HSBC Holdings Plc (hsbc), to buy Hutchison shares for less than half their book value.

In less than three years, his own books have built his company into a $ 5 million annual business.

The Kardashian game's total bookings, which includes the cut Glu must pay to app store owners like Apple, fell to under $ 8 million in the second quarter, less than one - fifth what it brought in at the height of the game's popularity.

In our new book, A Great Place to Work For All, we discovered that organizations that foster the most consistently great experience across all demographic groups grow revenue three times faster than their less inclusive counterparts.

Booking site Hipmunk reported that its reservations for Trump hotels are down nearly 60 percent over this time last year, the Globe said, while a survey of more than 2,000 Americans by travel trend tracking website Skift found 56.9 percent of respondents said they were less likely to stay in a Trump hotel because of his campaign.

Shaq's book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is about a young man who has power, wealth, and women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»

In less than two years, Reisman's Indigo Books & Music turned an initial $ 31.6 million investment to start e-reader and e-book retailer Kobo into $ 165 million when it sold the startup to Japanese e-commerce giant Rakutan for $ 315 million late last year.

While the likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.

But it was less a pure business book than a broad piece of social history.

In contrast, when a deal is structured around stock, the assets on the books must be amortized at their value to the seller, which is likely to be far less than the total sale price.