Sentences with phrase «like profitable companies»

Value investors like profitable companies but they prefer those with low - P / E ratios.

Investors like profitable companies, and so do potential acquirers.

Not exact matches

Tasner attributes PulpWorks» success — the company does upward of $ 1 million annually and is profitable — to his decades of experience as a supply - chain manager buying from entrepreneurs like himself.

Pandey insisted that Nutanix has a better chance of becoming profitable than Hortonworks because it sells a hardware product and doesn't rely on consulting or services for revenue growth like the data crunching company.

A company like that could volunteer its skills initially and then gradually commit to a percentage once it becomes profitable.

Investors like the idea of corporate tax cuts because the companies in which they invest could become even more profitable.

«The companies that have better risk management programs like this make more money,» Spivey said, «and they're more profitable, successful companies.»

Empowering employees to think and act like owners, driving and participating in the profitable growth of the company, is a proven way to drive results and engagement.

Canadian Western Bank (TSX: CWB) boasts an impressive 112 consecutive profitable quarters, but like much of the oil - reliant Alberta economy, the Edmonton - based financial services company is feeling the effects of the bust.

«Just like in Silicon Valley or New York, well - funded and profitable startups have leveled the playing field and can compete directly on salaries with the City and big tech companies for the most talented people.»

The company hopes its «Squarescription» will tap into the same market for having personal care products delivered to the door that has proved so profitable for the likes of Dollar Shave Club.

Profitable companies can allocate only so much of their revenue to advertising, cloud services, information technology and the like.

Sluggish markets and new regulations have diminished historically profitable areas like trading, forcing Goldman and other Wall Street companies to hunt for new sources of revenue.

RK: The reason this feels so much like a bubble is because there are so many companies out there who continue to invest in user growth who haven't proven unit economics or certainly haven't proven that they can build unit economics off of a contained infrastructure and ultimately be profitable.

A person familiar with the company's finances says Birchbox has been profitable on an Ebitda basis — a measure of operating profit that excludes items like interest and taxes — in 2017.

Companies typically decide to make long - term investments in things like new workers and factories based on whether they will make the company more profitable — not merely because the companies are sitting on a pile of money that they otherwise would have paid Companies typically decide to make long - term investments in things like new workers and factories based on whether they will make the company more profitable — not merely because the companies are sitting on a pile of money that they otherwise would have paid companies are sitting on a pile of money that they otherwise would have paid in taxes.

In the summer of 2017, a person familiar with the company's finances told Recode that Birchbox was profitable on an Ebitda basis — a measure of operating profit that excludes items like taxes.

They still wanted to back companies that could be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in solving big problems like climate change, education and health.

AWS has long been a question mark when it comes to Amazon: it's a good idea, and it makes money, but like it's parent company, will it ever be profitable?

Her case demonstrates how immensely profitable borrowers like her are for the company — and how the renewal strategy can transform long - term, lower - rate loans into short - term loans with the triple - digit annual rates of World's payday competitors.

That may sound like a European social democrat's nightmare, but Mr. Ratcliffe takes a longer view, explaining that if the lost money had instead been invested in new capacity, the company would be healthier, employees» jobs more secure and better - paying because the plant would be profitable.

This will make the most challenging of offshore operations, using the deep and ultra deep water rigs owned and leased by companies like SeaDrill, Transocean, Ensco and Rowan, increasingly profitable moving through 2012 and into 2013.

In addition to public utilities, startup companies like Ocean Renewable Power Co. are now getting involved with the tacit understanding that even if tidal energy's potential is limited, it can still be profitable.

Well, just like giant companies keep pushing their unhealthy products to us, because packaged goods are simpler to store than fresh food — and at the same time make more money doing that, in the same way it's easy to come across highly profitable but ethically questionable Russian dating sites.

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).

You might invest only in profitable companies (ones that make money and probably pay regular dividends), thus excluding something like an oil exploration company, which will just lose money, and lose it, and lose some more, forever... unless it hits the jackpot, in which case you might suddenly find yourself sitting on a huge profit.

I have been looking at various Chinese small caps, but in most cases I'm thinking that I simply like DSWL more because it's profitable, the balance sheet is rock solid and the company has a long history of returning cash to shareholders.

Since you are not restricted to public offerings, you should research private ventures to see if there are any companies that you like and could be profitable.

It's easy, and you can dedicate the time you'd normally spend researching companies to a more profitable endeavor, like selling your body.

So only looking at those historic numbers, Fossil looks like a high growth, capital light and highly profitable company at a bargain price.

When you look at the good publicity gained by mega-names such as PetSmart, Hills Pet Nutrition, and other pet supply companies, mega-donations are like «found money» in addition to providing profitable press coverage.

«The markup [on the company's toothbrush] is good and solid,» he says, adding that the product's smaller size, relative to other inventory like beds, makes the category an even more profitable use of shelf space.

I guess that's why we are seeing more games like COD Infinite where other companies have taken a gander at what Rockstar has done with a single game and made this persistent thing that does nt require a yearly release to be profitable.

This may be enough for Nintendo to keep the Switch niche and profitable, due to the high attach rate the system will have from the core user base, but it won't be enough to appeal to the wider console audience on PS4 and the casual audience on mobile to allow company to return to «Nintendo like profits».

It's a shame that the company is unable to find a way to keep these properties around as profitable games; how badly do you have to screw up to fail with a powerhouse portfolio like that?

It means that companies with flash - in - the - pan products grab the limelight whilst solid businesses like Introversion, Positech, Mode 7, Distractionware and Vlambeer plug away at creative, profitable games year after year.

Even more mystifying, jokes like «we lose money on every sale and make it up on volume» actually describe the business models of such massively profitable companies as Google.

Right now, it's more profitable road for oil companies to fight policies like LCFS than invest considerably more money in adaptation.

The company is growing like wildfire, as you'll see from the prospectus, and it's highly profitable, making it a great candidate for an IPO.

Wrapping its talking points in patriotic rhetoric, API's real intent is to continue getting billions of taxpayer dollars each year to corporations like ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron, which rank among the most profitable companies in the world.

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

The Tar Sands look more and more like a safe haven for the world's largest and most profitable oil companies to do as they please.»

Like all the large power companies, Southern Company is set up to keep producing power and making money regardless of what happens with CAGW — what is important to them is not what the results of the research they fund say, but that those results allow the company to make accurate decisions on what the most profitable form of power generatCompany is set up to keep producing power and making money regardless of what happens with CAGW — what is important to them is not what the results of the research they fund say, but that those results allow the company to make accurate decisions on what the most profitable form of power generatcompany to make accurate decisions on what the most profitable form of power generation is.

Fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil and Koch Industries are among the largest and most profitable in the nation, and they exert their influence over the political process to deprive the 99 % of something we all want: Clean, secure energy.

When companies streamline the recycling process by developing end of life solutions for things like used toothbrushes and empty air fresheners, as well as new recycling techniques and technologies, their waste can become profitable to recycle.

«Biopiracy suggests to me that someone in a dominant position — whether it be resources or sophistication like a drug company — would go and obtain from a weaker party — such as an indigenous population — materials or information that are then utilized to make a proprietary and profitable drug product.

This is very profitable for the insurance companies because they do not have to payout a death claim in a situation like this.

Much like the insurance offered at auto rental companies, this added insurance is very profitable and usually not worth it.

I understand that companies must be profitable to operate however I find it very difficult to believe a couple thousand dollars here and there to upgrade spouses, especially in circumstances like mine would make a dent into this company's yearly profit.

Some people have the misconception that term insurance is not profitable and that insurance companies don't like selling it.