Sentences with phrase «less than that of stocks»

Not exact matches

When it first hit the stock market in 2004, the search engine was worth less than toothpaste - maker Colgate - Palmolive, at about $ 27 billion at the close of trading that day.

The industry has got used to existing on lean inventories, some refineries holding less than one week's operating stock, and ignored the increasing complexity of alumina trading between big entities such as Rusal.

Whatever traditional tobacco stores have in stock, that's it: Less than one - quarter of retailers plan on expanding their selection any further.

Mattrick was supposed to turn things around, but Zynga's stock is nearly the same as when he started and less than a third of the price of its 2011 initial public offering, $ 10.

As of midmorning Friday, the stock was trading slightly less than $ 99 per share.

Over the past two years, Groupon's stock price has gone from $ 26 a share on its first day of trading in November 2011 to less than $ 3 a share a year later.

Any amount less than several million dollars is too small to be considered for a standard initial public offering of stock, for example.

As for Schlumberger, investors appear jittery about the stock, in part because the world's supplier of oilfield equipment has less exposure to the lucrative shale market ---- the biggest near - term driver for sales ---- than competitors.

But the FT reported that China's state - run China Railway Engineering Corp., which is part of the buying consortium, had said in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that the purchase price was equivalent to $ 1.2 billion, $ 500 million less than 1MDB announced.

In a recent survey of 1,000 public companies by ShareData, a Silicon Valley - based supplier of employee - stock - plan software and services, 74 % of the companies with less than $ 50 million in sales, and 68 % of those with fewer than 100 employees, offered stock - option plans to all employees.

Stock market Stronach had little incentive to eliminate its dual - class share structure, which allowed him to control the company despite holding less than 1 % of its equity.

On behalf of its clients, some of BlackRock's mutual funds, on average, hold stocks for less than a year.

If not, you need to wait for the JOBS Act to kick in and then use equity crowdfunding, where you will be able to sell stock in your business, because less than 2 percent of Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns successfully raise $ 100,000 or more.

European stocks, which had followed much of Wall St's rout on Monday, had less dramatic falls Tuesday, but failed to stabilize with any conviction after data showing service sector activity across the Eurozone and U.K. was weaker than originally thought in December.

While short - term stock price movements should normally not be a concern for boards, nearly halving the value of the stock in less than nine months warrants some attention — and a look at the board's practices.

According to the Wall Street Journal, people who had shorted SolarCity stock will have to scramble to rebuy shares that have gone up because of the potentially less - than - arm's - length acquisition offer.

Richard Greenfield, a technology analyst with BTIG LLC in New York, recently downgraded Facebook to Sell and slapped a $ 16 target price on the stock, less than half of Facebook's IPO price.

They ingest more drugs than seems humanly possible, sell worthless stocks to anyone they can get on the phone, paw at every woman that comes near with a kind of slobbering, animalistic desperation, and (spoiler alert) more or less get away with it.

Traders can use call options to capture potential upside in a stock while committing less capital upfront for the trade, as the price of each options contract is often less than the price of the stock.

The three stocks, which are traded over the counter, each have a market capitalization of less than $ 5 million, according to FactSet.

Currently, 90 % of CEO pay is linked to company performance of three years or less and based largely on stock price, much of which owes more to market forces than management acumen.

He points out that IBM has a beta of about 0.9, which means that it's less volatile than the overall stock market.

By comparison, Dropbox, a company less than half the size of Spotify that has a float of 35.5 million shares, saw its stock trade 56.1 million times during its IPO on March 23, and an average of 10.1 million daily in the ensuing five days.

Instead of rallying when stocks were falling — typically the case for the last three decades — bonds merely managed to lose less than stocks.

The stocks that hedge funds have largely ignored tend to be much larger than the hotels, have less debt, grow earnings more slowly but consistently, and pay bigger dividends (an average yield of nearly 3 % for the S&P 500 constituents, compared with 2 % for the index overall).

«Put it all together, and Lang says that Red Hat really just needs to rally less than three dollars from here, to $ 100, at which point he expects the stock to roar higher before temporarily running out of steam at the $ 110 area.»

When the market drops and some of your stocks are worth less than you originally paid, you can sell them and buy a similar (but not identical) fund, and this loss can be used to offset capital gains on other holdings — or even reduce your regular income taxes.

Third Point, which settled a bitter proxy battle with Yahoo last year after months of criticism of the company, will still own about 20 million shares, less than 2 percent of the Internet media company's common stock.

The uptick in investor confidence has brought the company's stock back up after an October swoon that dropped shares of Unilever more than 18 % in less than two months.

In some cases, the stock is trading for less than the $ 23 per share it was valued at during Magic Leap's last round of funding in February 2016.

Investor interest in technology stocks in Aust - ralia remains intense with the recent announcement that a portion of GPS Online's float is already over-subscribed — in less than a week.

«The U.S. is much deeper and in some ways a less - followed market than Canada where every stock has half a dozen analysts regardless of the market cap,» he says.

Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at MKM Partners, pointed out in a note Thursday that less than 60 percent of stocks in the Russell 3000 are trading above their 200 - day moving average, a key long - term technical metric.

Valeant stock plunged 22 % as the drugmaker slashed its guidance for the rest of 2016, even with less than two months left in the year.

A mini flash crash was characterized in Nanex's blogpost as an uninterrupted price decline or incline on a single stock of at least 0.8 % within a period of less than 1.5 seconds.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

I can easily construct my own portfolio of specific stocks and ETFs for $ 0 fees or probably less than $ 100 a year on a ~ $ 400,000 portfolio.

That strategy seems waaaayyyy less risky than actively picking stocks of supposedly «reliable» stocks that issue dividends, which could be cut at any time due to shifting industry trends and company performance.

In no case, except due to an adjustment to reflect a stock split or other event referred to under «Adjustments» below, and except for any repricing that may be approved by shareholders, will the plan administrator (1) amend an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right to reduce the exercise price or base price of the award, (2) cancel, exchange, or surrender an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right in exchange for cash or other awards for the purpose of repricing the award, (3) cancel, exchange, or surrender an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right in exchange for an option or stock appreciation right with an exercise or base price that is less than the exercise or base price of the original award, or (4) take any other action that is treated as a repricing under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

However, the creditors still get the short end of the financial stick: the face value of the common stock to be received will almost certainly be less than the face value of the original debt.

As of February 13, 2018, the total value of all telecommunication services stocks in the United States came to $ 1.70 trillion, or a little less than 2 % of the market.

It can help you differentiate between a less - than - perfect stock that is selling at a high price because it is the latest fad among stock analysts, and a great company which may have fallen out of favor and is selling for a fraction of what it is truly worth.

But anyone hoping for the kind of stock growth Shoppers enjoyed over the past decade — when its share price climbed from less than $ 18 to, at one point, over $ 55 — will be disappointed.

Back in June, IAC announced that it would pursue an IPO for less than 20 % of common stock of The Match Group.

The Census Bureau data also indicate that among less affluent households, fewer directly owned stocks and mutual fund shares in 2011 (13 %) than in 2009 (16 %), meaning a smaller share enjoyed the fruits of the stock market rally.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Stock Appreciation Rights may be granted with a per Share exercise price of less than one hundred percent (100 %) of the Fair Market Value per Share on the date of grant pursuant to a transaction described in, and in a manner consistent with, Section 424 (a) of the Code.

However, because they are comprised of a basket of actual stocks, ETFs are generally much less volatile than the individual small to mid-cap growth stocks we trade in bull markets.

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Although the long - term returns on real estate are less than common stocks as a class (because an apartment building can't keep expanding), real estate can throw off large amounts of cash relative to your investment.

Finance ministers gathered in Brussels broke up after less than two hours to «take stock of the situation» and will reconvene on Thursday, said Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chairs the meetings.