Sentences with phrase «of weak companies»

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.

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.

The Piotroski F - Score Test is a value investment analysis tool to identify stocks of companies with good fundamentals and eliminate stocks of weak companies.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

«Because we are in the hospitality and recreation business, which is largely dependent on discretionary spending,» the company's latest financial report explains, «we believe that the weak housing market, increases in unemployment, decreases in air flights to Las Vegas, decreases in the value of stock and other investments, and the general tightening of spending on business travel have all affected visitations to Las Vegas and the spending budget of our customers.»

With fourth - quarter sales of condensed and ready - to - serve soups down 7 %, prominent Wall Street firm Janney Montgomery Scott recently downgraded its rating on the company's stock, citing a weak packaged - soup market.

The outlook for this round of earnings isn't sunny, and many are expecting it to be the weakest season for big - cap companies in six years.

Moorhead's post prompted plenty of well - deserved bashing of Intel's mobile failings and a recounting of how the once dominant company of the «Wintel» era had been disrupted by smartphones running weaker, slower but cheaper and lower - powered ARM - based chips.

The initial sign of trouble came during the company's first - quarter earnings call when management issued weak guidance, cautioning investors of difficulties ahead.

Robert Stone, an analyst with Cowen and Company, thinks that board sales will decline by 5 % in 2015 because of a weak U.S. education - related spending.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

Capital outflows lead to a weaker currency, which concerns the hordes of Chinese companies that borrowed debt in foreign currencies over the past few years and now have to pay it back with a weaker yuan.

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

Firms directly tied to the energy sector expected further declines in their sales volumes, and companies that sell to energy - related customers suffer along with them as they adjust to an environment of weak demand.

«We saw ourselves — the company, the management, the leadership, all the way to the rank and file — as this powerful global media company,» Flanders says, «and, in fact, we were a powerfully recognized brand, but our businesses, each one of them, was weaker than the next.»

Facebook has a special lab stocked with low - end Android phones, old flip phones and weak networking to help the company figure out what computing conditions are like in parts of the world with limited internet connection.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

The colorful rubber shoemaker Crocs is the latest in a series of companies to say that their weak earnings results were, at least in part, due to the weather.

A significant share of the corporate debt in stressed economies is now owed by companies with weak debt servicing capacity and this could negatively affect bank balance sheets and cut into profits, it added.

Upon analysis of revenue streams, the company found the weakest revenue was coming from its Las Vegas business.

The link between Montsanto and Sumitomo is also weak — Montsanto does not manufacture or sell larvicides, and does not own any part of Sumitomo, although the companies do partner in the area of weed control in Latin America.

Barnes & Noble shares closed down 5.4 percent on the New York Stock Exchange after the company also reported a much - weaker - than - expected quarterly profit, due to lower sales of Nook devices.

Viacom, meanwhile, looks even weaker: Two of its long - established channels, MTV and Nickolodeon, have been losing viewers rapidly, and analysts say the company is particularly vulnerable going into negotiations with cable providers, where it will bargain for the right to be included in their bundles.

The company's results have been pressured by weak Russian and Ukrainian beer demand, where an ongoing geopolitical crisis has pressured sales for Carlsberg and some of its rivals.

The stimulus from a weaker currency is over; if companies didn't respond to a 20 % drop over two years, they likely aren't going to respond to a decline of a few more percentage points.

At the same time, the company warned that revenue could be weak over the next few quarters — in part because Twitter is winding down a number of advertising products that weren't performing.

Comparable sales fell 17 % at Sears and 13 % at Kmart, a striking result given that they exclude the dozens of weak stores the company has culled in the last year.

John Chambers believes companies will stumble not because of weak talent, but because they lack digital business skills.

Current employees at small companies won't get much in the way of raises because high unemployment and weak hiring plans will keep wages from rising.

The department store company, which has reported sales declines in its last 11 quarters despite closing dozens of weak stores, said on Thursday, that comparable sales rose 1 % in November and December, a modest increase to be sure, but one that puts Macy's on track to report its first quarter of growth in three years.

Alcoa Inc.'s third - quarter results, scheduled to be revealed after the market closes Thursday, will mark the unofficial launch of what is currently projected to be the weakest earnings reporting season for S&P 500 companies in six years.

Virgin America said it recorded a loss of $ 22.4 million in the first quarter of 2014, though the company said that period is seasonally the weakest.

Companies ripe for takeovers often have some of the following traits: • a small capitalization; • a market price less than book value; • a «weak» management team; • ownership of undervalued assets or important patents.

Even though the company has a strong debt - to - equity ratio, the quick ratio of 0.17 is very weak and demonstrates a lack of ability to pay short - term obligations.