Sentences with phrase «on being an asset to the company»

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It's encouraging to hear BlackRock (blk) CEO Larry Fink — whose company's $ 4 trillion of assets under management make it the 800 - pound gorilla in public markets — decry the short - term focus of many investors and call on companies to lay out a «strategic framework for long - term value creation.»

While most of the headlines the company has made recently have pertained to blockchain, it is setting its sights on digital assets.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Service businesses are best valued on revenue and profitability since there are few hard assets, while production assets of companies in manufacturing tend to be substantial drivers of valuation along with revenue and profitability.

Univision, the Spanish - language broadcaster that has been rapidly expanding online through acquisitions, has agreed to buy bankrupt publisher Gawker Media's assets for approximately $ 135 million, the companies confirmed on Tuesday.

«But while it's a hard one to call, they could put an asset test on it — meaning employee stock options would be taxed more heavily for those employees who work for big public companies with a large asset base, like the Big Five banks.

The companies were selected based on a combination of factors: their prodigious revenues or assets, their social currency, their deep connection to our daily lives, and (particularly for the newer and smaller companies), their disruptive impact.

Remember though, if you default on a secured loan then the assets or asset class you used as a security could be seized by the creditor in a Court procedure that could also put your company out of business, so there is some element of risk to consider with asset - based financing.

Focusing on «culture fit» alone makes it difficult to hire and welcome employees who are different than the prevailing culture, even if they'd be an asset and great counterbalance at your company.

I think that even companies we invested in two years ago that did not specifically focus on AI or machine learning at the time are now increasingly looking at assets that can now become that much more valuable when you apply machine learning to them.

Explaining the industry and what's going on takes the form of several audiences; one being the overly - optimistic entrepreneur who still has aspirations of raising capital to get their company to a liquidity event, another being the up and coming venture capitalist in training (think decades long training cycles) who recently finds themselves a free agent as the asset class shrinks and wants to start their own fund, and the final being ambitious MBA's switching careers and see venture capital as the preferred destination.

Employees at participating firms are surveyed on engagement (whether they feel motivated at work), performance culture (whether success is rewarded), leadership (whether executives treat their team as valued assets) and employment brand (whether they are proud to work at the company).

This system has never made me pass up an opportunity — in fact, it's helped me strengthen my cash flow so much that I've been able to contemplate all kinds of growth options, including a recent $ 325,000 bid on a bankrupt company whose assets were worth nearly 10 times that much.»

The idea is to accept that the company's perimeter is compromised and focus on limiting the damage and protecting the most valuable assets.

«Since our company isn't one with much capital — our «assets» are our employees and contracts — we have been able to finance new programs under an accounts receivable margining system, in which the bank will loan us short - term funds based on our current contracts and receivables.

In a separate hearing on ICOs in Congress last week, Mike Lempres, chief legal and risk officer for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, said the company does not trade ICO tokens because it «can not take the risk of inadvertently trading an asset that is later found to be a security.»

BRVM is also in talks with private equity funds including ECP, Tunisia's Africinvest, and Mauritian group AFIG Funds, to encourage them to list companies on the exchange as part of their exit strategies for assets, Amenounve said.

With all of those assets on the line, you need to be willing and able to address folks whose «go it alone» behaviors may be costing your team, your project, and your company.

In December 2009, the company defaulted on $ 1.4 billion in debt following a two - month extension, and an auction date for the assets was set to take place in the midst of the Olympic action.

Being able to relate to two different cultures also proved to be an asset to Gimenez as he plotted the direction for his new company, which landed at No. 74 on this year's Inc. 5000.

A Reuters report on Friday, however, countered by reporting the buyout groups are only interested in purchasing some of HPE's software assets — not the whole company — in a deal worth $ 6 billion to $ 8 billion.

Prior to July, the last time the currency hit $ 300 was on March 10, the same day on which bitcoin companies 21 Inc, ShapeShift, and Digital Asset Holdings all announced either fundraising rounds or big executive appointments.

April 12 (Reuters)- General Electric Co is exploring a public offering for one of its divisions and discussing hybrid deals with public companies to combine assets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Beyond the Thunder stake and the minority interests in the AEP spin - off companies, the identities of many of the other assets are not publicly known because the probate court granted the estate a waiver on inventorying and valuing them, according to court records.

Subtracting the company's current liabilities from these current assets shows how much working capital (your firm's truest measure of liquidity) is on hand and its ability to pay for decisions in the short - term.

That's because none of the three companies are currently based in the U.S. Mylan quietly inverted to the Netherlands in February after buying some of Abbott Laboratories» (ABT) foreign assets (as a result, it will no longer be eligible for the Fortune 500, on which it ranked No. 377 in 2014).

But, depending on the company, they may very well need to know exactly how production efficiency is calculated, or why asset days matter, or how the purchase of a new computer system will affect the income statement and balance sheet.

The company has also had to take big losses related to write - downs of the value of its oil and gas assets, to reflect the lower prices these energy commodities are garnering on the open market.

The company has been working to increase its video assets in recent years, particularly with the purchase of rich - content syndicators 5 Min Media in 2010, and the launch of its video library AOL On.

The best way to prepare for a market correction is by putting money on companies that can deliver growth, one asset manager told CNBC, as talk of a potential stock market crash grows.

The company's ultimate valuation will depend on decisions that are expected to be made by Saudi authorities in coming months, including the tax rate that Aramco will pay as a public company, and the portion of Aramco's huge and diverse array of assets that is included in the listed entity.

Finally, the ratio of net income to total assets is a strong indicator of whether the company is getting a favorable rate of return on assets.

And because Baker's exit strategy is to sell Nature's Cure to another consumer - products company, she believes that she ought to spend her time and capital on building assets that her acquirers would covet — namely, a big - time brand.

And whether you own 100 percent of your business or your unhappy spouse is also your business partner, you may find yourself having to sell assets or take on debt to break up the company you worked so hard to build.

«My mandate was to clean up the asset base, sort out debt problems and get the company on solid footing.

On April 12, 2018, The Boston Globe reported that Matt Maddox, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, stated that he is open to a potential sale of the entire project to «maximize the value of our assets and mitigate risk.»

At close to half a billion dollars, it was well beyond the outer limits of what investors had ever paid for a publishing company of Wired's size — never mind one whose operations were on track to lose $ 11 million that year (not even counting a onetime $ 20.5 - million write - off to put the company's disparate assets under one corporate umbrella).

He knew he was on to something when billionaire Clay Riddell offered to put up personal assets to help secure a $ 75 - million bank loan to capitalize the company.

The Calgary - based company, Canada's second - largest energy producer, will continue to look at assets available in the market, but is «not chasing anything,» Chief Executive Steve Williams said on an investor call.

Couric, who joined Yahoo News as its global anchor more than two years ago, is reportedly looking to move on as the company's core web assets are being shopped around to unconfirmed buyers.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

A reverse Morris trust is a tax - optimization strategy in which a company wishing to spin off and subsequently sell assets to an interested party can do so while avoiding taxes on any gains from such asset disposal.

Speaking to Bloomberg TV this week, Faber claimed that investors are running low on safe assets and suggested they revisit mining companies:

The introductory clause is amended to reflect the June 9, 2017 applicability date of that section, as follows: «On or after June 9, 2017, if the insurance agent or broker, pension consultant, insurance company or investment company Principal Underwriter is a fiduciary within the meaning of ERISA section 3 (21)(A)(ii) or Code section 4975 (e)(3)(B) with respect to the assets involved in the transaction, the following conditions must be satisfied, with respect to the transaction to the extent they are applicable to the fiduciary's actions -LSB-.]»

A failed business may simply cease operations; with the owners and investors absorbing the losses (if any); a troubled business on the brink of going under may seek to merge with another company that has the resources to keep it afloat and out of bankruptcy; or a dying business may be bought up by another, stronger company, seeking to breathe new life into it or simply to acquire its assets.

On top of the funding, the company announced another addition that might prove to be an equally valuable asset in the long - run: Meg Whitman, the e-commerce pioneer that helped turn eBay from a scrappy start - up to an online behemoth with more than $ 9 billion in yearly revenues.

Commentary: «Our focus this quarter was on strengthening the balance sheet by selling non-core assets and building capital to position the company for future growth,» said Chief Financial Officer Bruce Thompson.

Growth is expected to come from wirehouses such as Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch that are starting to allocate more funds to the newer net asset value (NAV) non-traded REIT products on behalf of their clients, notes Kevin Gannon, president and managing director at Robert A. Stanger & Company Inc., a real estate investment banking firm based in Shrewsbury, N.J..

Unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to the transaction, if substantially all of the assets of the Company are acquired by another corporation or in case of a reorganization of the Company involving the acquisition of the Company by another entity, (i) stock options and stock appreciation rights become exercisable immediately prior to the transaction; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter.

On Tuesday, it was reported that the CFTC issued subpoenas to cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and digital asset company Tether.