Sentences with phrase «of soaring valuations»

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In B.C. especially, companies such as QLT Inc., Angiotech Pharmaceuticals and Cardiome Pharma Corp. saw their valuations soar in the early 2000s, only to come crashing to earth by the end of the decade as a result of competitive pressures, regulatory snags, strategic blunders and deals gone awry.

Tech companies with no profits (or even much of a business plan) soared to extreme valuations that were justified, in part, by the belief that future profits would be made faster and that equities were less risky than in the past.

And 2015 was no exception, as the year achieved a kind of milestone with 142 unicorns, startups so - named because their valuations have soared to the $ 1 billion mark and beyond.

Unlike their more seasoned peers, whose valuations have soared into the tens of billions of dollars, this year's flock of unicorns have somewhat smaller price tags.

As a result, the median valuation of a Series A round of funding soared 135 % between 2012 and 2014, according to the law firm Cooley LLP.

Pinterest Inc. the online scrapbooking company, is seeking to raise funding at a valuation of about $ 11 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, continuing the soaring values of a group of high - profile technology startups.

Despite rising valuations and a soaring American stock market — the S&P 500 is up 136 % since it bottomed in March 2009 — it's hard to know if we're in the midst of a bull run, a sideways market or the prelude to a fall.

While the supply of capital available for VC backed IPOs has declined drastically over the last 21 months, the total valuation of U.S. based unicorns has simultaneously soared.

The dot - com bubble is the perfect example of a time when buyers weren't deterred by steep valuations, and the S&P 500's CAPE soared to nearly 45.

Although the valuations are soaring, they could take a significant hit as the global economy is in the midst of instability and the Fed is tapering its monthly bond - buying program, otherwise known as quantitative easing.

But times in which valuations soar are times when public scrutiny of what is going on in the market is spare (how else could valuations get out of hand?).

We hesitate to speculate if this is due to the rising popularity of the factor driving the relative valuation higher or the soaring valuation driving the rising popularity.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission in the meanwhile has suspended trading of a widely popular bitcoin - related stock temporarily whose price had reached a market valuation of $ US11.3 billion this year by soaring more than 5600 % given rising concerns of market manipulation.