Sentences with phrase «making business acquisitions»

For example, if a company takes a loan from a bank, most of the banks would restrict the company from making any business acquisitions until the loan amount is repaid completely.

Amazon continues to make a loss on high sales because it reinvests its profit into growing the company by building new warehouses, creating new services like Kindle Unlimited and making business acquisitions like the $ 1bn video game streaming site Twitch.

One director, R.V. Bailey, believes that the prospective value of Aspen as a public corporation with a continuous filing record and clean financial statements exceeds the value of the remaining net assets, and believes that stockholders may benefit by the possibility of making a business acquisition (including a reverse takeover) that could offer Aspen's stockholders potential long term value.

Not exact matches

While a high customer acquisition cost (CAC) could make sense if those customers generate consistent, long - term revenue — like in a subscription - based business — most startups can't afford to indulge in high CAC.

Last year alone, the Caisse injected half a billion dollars into Quebec businesses making global acquisitions.

Some major institutions may have to divest assets, and Canaccord with Genuity is a larger more profitable firm that could make acquisitions to grow our businesses.

Cree considers free cash flow to be an operating performance and a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business after the purchases of property and equipment, a portion of which can then be used to, among other things, invest in Cree's business, make strategic acquisitions, strengthen the balance sheet and repurchase stock.

Once you have between 20 to 40 clicks, choose the one that's getting the best results, which means the highest click - through rate, the highest conversion rate, or the lowest cost per acquisition (CPA), depending on what makes the most sense for your business.

Unless you're in a retail business or own your premises, your physical location is not likely going to make you a more attractive acquisition candidate or a more valuable business.

These seven steps will help you make your business more attractive for acquisition.

Nadella has refocused the company on high - growth businesses like the Surface computer and Azure cloud, and has made splashy acquisitions.

«After 20 years in the business, we had to make major acquisitions or be swallowed alive,» Shindler says.

Like many midsize - business owners, they'd been forced to fund expenditures — even the 20 small acquisitions they had made — by using cash flow, mortgaging their building, and tapping into their personal savings.

AWS makes cloud computing and storage software for businesses, a handful of which subsequently have received investment or an acquisition offer from Amazon.

Intuit has integrated the online marketing software gained through its US$ 423.5 million acquisition of Demandforce with its QuickBooks accounting software, giving small businesses a way to make closer connections with customers, the company announced Thursday.

To make matters worse, both Salix's business and Addyi have fallen short of Valeant's revenue expectations, and Valeant has come to realize that it overpaid for several of its acquisitions: Its third - quarter loss of $ 1.2 billion was largely due to a $ 1 billion goodwill write - down — meaning the amount Valeant spent for those assets above and beyond what they are currently worth.

Let's take a look at why CAC is important, how to calculate it, and ways you can make your acquisition cost work efficiently to ensure that your SaaS business is among the successful elite.

The acquisition offers a boost to the defense giant's rocket business, with Orbital ATK's orbital vehicles and missile defense systems helping to make Northrop's offerings more robust.

But he noted that Berkshire will still have room to make more acquisitions, noting that its businesses continually replenish its cash supply.

For the first - half, it made a total of 13 acquisitions and Mr Kelly said it was always on the lookout for «like - minded» businesses.

A year in the making between respective CEOs Barry Liben and Priscilla Alexander, Travel Leaders Group's acquisition last month of Protravel was nothing new in the long - term process of consolidation among business travel agencies.

With the acquisition of FDO, the company torpedoed its ROIC, took on an extra $ 11 billion in debt that will limit its ability to invest in new growth opportunities in the future, and made it more difficult to focus and execute on its core business.

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Delaney said he sees two events unfolding: «The existing players... will adopt this rule, make changes to their business models as needed, and they'll work hard to keep every one of their customers because one of biggest costs that financial services companies have are what's called customer acquisition — meaning the money they spend for customers,» he said.

After acquiring his interest in Blockbuster, Icahn began giving interviews to the press and writing letters to shareholders (and to me) claiming that we'd botched the acquisition, that we'd spent too much money on our online business, that we shouldn't have ended late fees, and that the CEO (that would be me) was making too much money.

The company has launched a business review to consider returning cash to shareholders, making medium - sized acquisitions and more aggressive cost cuts, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Disney might have to divest a cable channel or two (the company's power over distributors would be even stronger; basically the opposite of the some of the concerns that halted the Comcast acquisition of Time Warner), and potentially be limited in its ability to make operational decisions about Hulu (Disney would have a controlling stake after the merger; Comcast was similarly restricted after acquiring NBC Universal, but there the concern was more about Comcast's conflict of interest with regards to its cable TV business competing with Hulu).

A graduate of Thunderbird, Tom's accomplishments include managing a diverse portfolio of investments through the financial crisis, making investments in several global payments companies that led to acquisitions, and building new business units in Mexico City, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.

$ 4 million of new Adjusted EBITDA increases the value of the business by $ 72 million, making the $ 21 million acquisition very profitable

In re HP Securities Litigation consists of two consolidated putative class actions filed on November 26 and 30, 2012 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleging, among other things, that from August 19, 2011 to November 20, 2012, the defendants violated Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Exchange Act by concealing material information and making false statements related to Parent's acquisition of Autonomy and the financial performance of Parent's enterprise services business.

«A lot of corporations jump into new businesses, make acquisitions, and even decide to merge based on very questionable criteria like «favourable ratios», «minimal redundancy» and (my personal favourite) «Strategic synergism.»

But with mega-cap behemoths, the businesses tend to remain intact after technological change so long as there is an identifiable bolt - on acquisition to make in the sector.

New Dole looks to be massively undervalued, will still hold very good high value assets, especially saleable land, has some future potential catalysts that could help unlock value, it should be able to compete better with Fresh Del Monte and Chiquita, and new Dole will now be freed up to make acquisitions and improvements to its business and operations after the transaction with Itochu closes as it will not be burdened by the massive amount of debt that it has carried for years.

Their ability to continuously adapt through years in order to find new growth vectors within their business (organic growth) or outside through mergers & acquisitions has made them not only leaders of their industry, but leaders of tomorrow in many cases.

The company is paying out a third of its profit to shareholders as dividends, and keeping the other two - thirds of its profit for other purposes such as growing the business, making acquisitions, reducing debt levels, or repurchasing shares.

Whether the client is interested in pursuing the sale of all or part of its business, or in making a strategic acquisition, Marcum's focus is on managing the process to a successful conclusion to enhance shareholder value.

Our proven business model is based on making accretive acquisitions, profitably, selectively adding to front - office headcount, and investing in our hybrid and fully - electronic trading platform.

While Aetna's ROIC is less than stellar, this jump in ROIC is a good sign that the aforementioned acquisitions were smart for Aetna's business and were made for the right price.

In January 2016, when the company was pursuing an acquisition of Humana, Bertolini told the Louisville, Ky., Chamber of Commerce that Aetna was evaluating its real estate portfolio, «but we've made a commitment to only one community as a location for the most important part of our business, and that's Louisville.»

If these companies have capital to allocate, and can't reinvest it attractively in the business, make sensible acquisitions with it or pay down debt, they have to either keep it around as cash equivalents or return it to shareholders.

In making the forward - looking statements in this release, the Company has applied certain factors and assumptions that are based on the Company's current beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company, including that all conditions to the closing of the Transactions will be satisfied, including receipt of all required approvals, and the Transactions will complete on the terms set out in the APA and the SPA, the acquisition of the NODE40 Business will have the benefits to the Company anticipated by management, the 5,000 Rigs will be successfully ordered and delivered, the 5,000 Rigs will perform as expected by management and the timing, installation and performance of the 770 Rigs will be consistent with management's expectations.

With the acquisition of Great American Cookies in 1998 by the company that made chewy mall cookies big business, Mrs. Fields is now peddling her baked wares in more than 90 percent of the premier shopping malls in the United States.

Meanwhile, at the request of BP and Woolworths, the ACCC has delayed for the third time making a final decision on BP's proposed $ 1.8 billion acquisition of Woolworths» fuel business.

Foster's made a large wine acquisition in the US in 2000 when it paid $ 2.9 billion for Californian group Beringer Wine Estates but that business struggled to live up to lofty expectations and was the subject of a string of hefty write - downs under previous management.

The company will also look for other acquisitions where it is able to derive synergies with its existing portfolio of businesses, and has set a target of 10 per cent incremental EBITDA for any purchases it makes.

Billionaire Anthony Pratt has made a major acquisition in the United States that will provide a significant boost to his fast - growing US business and solidify the future of Visy's Australian operations.

Picking off a wine business from a conglomerate was also earmarked as likely, with Macquarie saying Altria Group's Ste. Michelle makes most of its profits from luxury and «mass - market prestige» wine, and would make sense as an acquisition target for Treasury Wine.

The competition watchdog has delayed making a decision on BP's $ 1.8 billion acquisition of Woolworths» fuel business until August after receiving a request for more time by Woolworths and BP.

Mr Clarke said if the company made another large acquisition such as its $ 754 million purchase of Diageo's US wine business in late 2015, he would seriously contemplate permanently shifting Treasury's head office to the US.

The Coalition has proposed changing the make - up of the Foreign Investment Review Board, which is due to make a recommendation to Mr Hockey on the sale, to include small business people and farmers on the board as well as lowering the threshold for proposed rural acquisitions to $ 15 million from $ 248 million.