Sentences with phrase «many weaker companies»

That's because weak companies die and people lose their jobs when tested by stronger competition.

As stronger railroads bought up weaker companies and divided up markets with the remaining competitors, the dangers of monopoly became more and more apparent.

«Time Warner is a weaker company today than it was three years ago because Jeff Bewkes has run it to maximize its sale price for the past few years.

Oil prices have bounced around the $ 60 per barrel mark, low enough to cause deeper financial stress for weaker companies.

Under IFRS, temporary resuscitation of weak companies through timely acquisitions has become like child's play.

Theoretically, then there will be greater price dispersion between the stocks of weaker companies and those that are fundamentally stronger when interest rates trend higher.

The devil in the details: how do you prevent normal business activity (eg: buying Christmas inventory) from taking the value of a weak company below the value of unfunded pension obligations?

«Greed is good,» Gekko declared, while firing smug, overpaid managers and restructuring weak companies.

«I tend to avoid the shares of weaker companies, even if their shares are selling at depressed prices.

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It can not compare itself with the small, weak company of the early centuries living in the midst of secular societies that had grown up independently of it.

Second, many of the businesses that went into receivership over the holidays were weak companies.

It was what Pissarra refers to as a Darwinist phase of business development — when natural selection sorts weak companies from strong.

It's an easy approach to identify companies with good fundamentals and eliminate weak companies.

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Ideally the company should have a strong competitive position in a stable industry, or should at least be one of the stronger companies in a cyclical industry that can ride out slumps when weaker companies falter.

It is rarely a good idea to buy the stock of a weak company in a competitive industry, regardless of the valuation.

Although lists like Dividend Aristocrats can sometimes suffer from Survivor Bias, as many weaker companies could have been dumped from the list along the way, I like the concept because dividends are real money in our pocket.

When it hits, weak companies and their investors will be washed away.

The Piotroski F - Score has a proven record of increasing the probability of eliminating weak companies and identifying the stocks of companies with good fundamentals.

The Piotroski F - Score Stock Screen is a value investing strategy to identify stocks of companies with good fundamentals and eliminate stocks of weak companies.

as the P / E is a pretty crap ratio when it comes to distinguishing financially strong vs. weak companies.

Weaker companies talk about how they will make it, and that their banks are on board, committing credit, waiving covenants, etc..

Why stack the deck even further against yourself by taking on a financially weak company?

Vulture investors like Mr. Smith often buy up the debt of weak companies for pennies on the dollar, hoping to turn a profit when the companies go through bankruptcy or restructure their businesses.

This makes for favorable VC exits from essentially weak companies.

«In that scenario we would not be surprised to see some increase in deals being done on the weaker companies being financed.»

Not exact matches

The company attributed the performance to its international business, where it saw higher expenses, lower profit margins and weaker gains from sales of assets.

BlackBerry (TSX: BB)(Nasdaq: BBRY) was a weak spot a day after a move to take the company private.

Combine that with weak commodity prices, flat global trade and the governance risk associated with companies in many of these countries, and safety - minded investors are perhaps best served by limiting their exposure to the grouping at this time.

Still, sales growth at its parent company Yum Brands was weaker than expected, hurt by a chicken shortage at KFC chain restaurants in the U.K. and Ireland.

This prompted the company to create a code of conduct for all its suppliers; wherever they were in the world, they would rise above weak labor laws.

Here are three off the top of my head: Record levels of household debt threaten future spending, too many of our companies need a weaker currency to be competitive, and international energy companies are giving up on Canada as a place to invest.

Although they've had some weak reviews for online support and mobile functionality, they're a good choice for companies that want individual attention from an HR specialist.

Reports of weak phone component orders and the fading benefits of tax reform cast a shadow over the company's future.

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

S&P said in March a rupiah exchange rate of 15,000 a dollar is «the psychological level» at which companies with weak balance - sheets could struggle with repayments and those with good cashflow might start to proactively restructure their debt.

Priceline shares tanked by 8 percent Wednesday after the company reported a bookings miss for its second quarter and weak guidance for the current quarter.

In addition to the battle for control, which has pitted Dauman against 93 - year - old controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari, the company said that advertising sales have been weak, and they are expected to be down by 4 % for the quarter.

Potential U.S. sanctions on sales of light crude to Venezuela's oil company PDVSA would hamper its already weak refining network while leaving at least one tanker in limbo, according to a source from the state - run firm and Thomson Reuters data.

Shares of Priceline sunk 6 percent after the company reported weak guidance for its third quarter.

Those companies are getting a boost from a weaker dollar, and Canada is now a magnet for tourists.

The world's top oil and gas companies, including Exxon and Chevron, reported sharp drops in quarterly results last week due to lower oil prices and weaker refining margins.

Revenue also fell short amid what the company calls weak U.S. industry conditions.

«Big companies couldn't innovate, they stopped growing and they were considered weak,» he said.

Companies whose employees and agents engage in bribery seem (anecdotally, at least) to have weak internal controls.

Weak traffic is one reason Stifel Nicolaus analyst Richard Jaffe said he remains cautious on American Eagle, despite the company's third - quarter improvement.

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The weak results will stoke investor concerns over the company's stalling growth and the effectiveness of Chief Executive Jack Dorsey's turnaround strategy.

«The investigations, along with current discussions among shareholders, possible changes in the board of directors and management, will be a distraction,» Moody's said in a statement March 6, also highlighting the company's «weak credit metrics.»