Sentences with phrase «on big acquisitions»

Known for building tanks and nuclear submarines, General Dynamics has been focusing its funds on investing in R&D, repurchasing stock, and kicking back steady dividends to shareholders rather than shelling out on big acquisitions.

Walmart is reportedly closing in on a big acquisition of Flipkart, and that single move could ignite yet another major fight between the big - box retailer and Amazon.

He added: «We're working on a big acquisition now that comes from the opposite end of contemporary's current poles, with works defined by developments prior to the 1970s.

Not exact matches

Investors expect faster returns from Walmart's investments compared to Amazon, said Yarbrough, a move that limits the brick - and - mortar retailer's ability to spend big on acquisitions in growth markets.

Soon after, Kallop — a big spender whose recent acquisitions have included at least seven yachts, eight residences, and three jets — ran short on cash, leading him to lay off employees and try to sell assets.

He says, «The cost of customer acquisition is very high and if you're letting the competitors get those customers when at a potentially lower cost than the online channel, I think you're missing out on a pretty big opportunity.»

Whitman's continued slimming of HPE has stoked talk that it could now be an attractive acquisition target for private equity companies that have been emboldened to spend big money on technology providers.

LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO, April 25 - Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000..

That's put downward pressure on sales and led some observers to wonder just when Gilead would use its massive cash reserves to make a big - name acquisition.

Carlsberg's Russian troubles have become a recurring theme since it placed a bet on the market with its biggest - ever acquisition in 2008.

L'Oreal, the world's biggest cosmetics firm, said group sales grew 6.8 percent from a year earlier on a like - for - like basis, which removes the effect of currency swings and acquisitions or disposals.

Shell shareholders are set to cast their votes on the deal on Jan. 27, followed by BG investors the next day, the final hurdles to be cleared for the deal to proceed, one of the biggest energy sector acquisitions in the past decade.

«We're starting to put together all the pieces... this acquisition of Twine also will help our momentum in building more of a bigger revenue business on the health side.»

There's no end to the erroneous conclusions one might draw from media coverage and statistics that focus only on Wall Street, on the megamergers and acquisitions, the biggest company deals, the glitziest initial public offerings, and the most public investments in American business.

Big Idea: Stepping up from being executive chair of Santander's U.K. unit on the death of her late father, who turned a family - owned regional bank into one of the 20 biggest banks in the world, she will need to consolidate her father's post-2008 acquisitions in Europe, Latin America and the U.S.

The company, with over $ 41 billion in sales last year, placed a bigger bet on the packaged meats space with the $ 7.7 billion acquisition of Hillshire Brands in 2014.

On the surface, the deal — Amazon's biggest acquisition in its 21 - year history — doesn't exactly look cheap.

«During the last 15 years, we tended to go out on an acquisition spree, buy a bunch of revenue, buy a bunch of infrastructure and sites, and not be able to retain the big customers,» he says.

Despite a heightened level of political uncertainty, a potential US - led trade war against China and fraught Brexit negotiations, companies have embarked on an unprecedented number of big acquisitions this year.

The «Squawk on the Street» team talks about Salesforce's biggest acquisition to date, buying software company Mulesoft in a deal worth $ 44.89 per share in cash and stock.

Regulators are set to focus on AT&T's powerful control over broadband and television customers since it is the nation's second - largest wireless company, after Verizon, and biggest paid television provider since its recent acquisition of DirecTV.

LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000.

Dominion may be my favorite on what your're looking at currently, big acquisition they are going through but they have solid financial metrics and a tasteful yield!

On the heels of major exit announcements from our portfolio companies ServiceMax (pending acquisition by GE Digital) and TubeMogul (pending acquisition by Adobe), we have more big news from Trinity Family member and Real Estate tech company VTS as they announce their merger with former competitor Hightower.

On a recent conference call, the CEO explained a $ 700 million share repurchase as follows: «The reason that I made the biggest acquisition in the history of the company this last month was because the company is so cheap.»

In the last few years, Facebook has made 14 big acquisitions, and spent over $ 25B on them.

While studies show that mergers and acquisitions as a group are value neutral or negative for shareholders (on average the selling company gets all the excess returns), The Outsiders explored how some management teams focused on driving shareholder value with their M&A rather than simply using it as a mechanism to get bigger, have shown extraordinary success.

Over the past year, mergers and acquisitions have increased considerably in the healthcare IT sector, with smaller deals yielding big returns on investment, according to report from New York - based investment bank Berkery Noyes released Jan. 11.

Wanda Group, along with a number of China's biggest conglomerates including HNA Group and Fosun International - has seen higher levels of scrutiny on its finances and debt over the past year as Beijing clamps down on what it sees as «irrational» overseas acquisitions.

LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO (Reuters)- Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000.

(Reuters)- Pfizer Inc's (PFE.N) chief executive said on Tuesday he would prefer to wait for clarity on U.S. tax reform before engaging in any big deals in order to get a better understanding of any potential acquisition target's value.

As opposed to an environment driven by clients» needs, «It was a world of mergers and acquisitions, and the word on the street was that the bigger the bottom line you make, the better job security you have,» he recalls.

Foster's, which was taken over by SABMiller in 2012, spent up big on wine assets in the United States in 2001 with the acquisition of Beringer but made big writedowns over the next decade.

Treasury Wine Estates chief Michael Clarke says he has the strong backing of the winemaker's biggest shareholders, as well as private equity suitors circling the group, to embark on an acquisition campaign in the United States and reverse years of drifting by the business.

Mrs Rinehart's private company Hancock Prospecting is focused on building an even bigger and better quality wagyu herd through breeding programs and more acquisitions.

Williams had all but given up on free - agent acquisition Tim Stoddard ($ 500,000 a year, 1 - 5, 3.64), and when he used him in desperation last week, the big righthander lost two games.

I read that Kondogbia is now linked to s as well which would be a great acquisition and Id really like to see either Benzema (my first choice) Higuain (my second choice) or Lcazetta (Third only due to his lack of big game experience) but the way things go with AW we'll not get any of the aforementioned as they will be snapped up by other teams while AW is on holiday and swanning around wherever he swans around during the majority of the summer.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

-- Buy one or two players for A LOT of Money and buy a couple more at mid range to low — Buy low cost and mid-range players develop them and sell them to big clubs — make only bargain acquisitions, sell your star players to big clubs and take loanees — Buy only expensive superstars sell fringe players to smaller clubs — Buy who you can afford and take players on loan — groom players and sell them for big money and always buy cheap — Buy only the players you need — Buy outside Europe — Buy NO ONE — Use some other strategy we don't know about

But which of these acquisitions has made the biggest impact on the futures market?

with so much money in cash reserves perhaps Stan Kroenke is insisting on holding ever bigger amounts in Arsenal in order to satisfy his creditors elsewhere that he always has a large supply of cash on tap if he should need to call on it kroenke completed his Rams takeover with an acquisition of 60 % of its share capital in August 2010, less than eight months before paying # 250 million to take his shareholding in Arsenal beyond 60 % when the global financial system was in crisis

Overall, Liverpool have traded in young, hungry players with potential in exchange for losing (mostly) aging players on big money, and I'm confident that the majority of the incoming players will prove to be shrewd acquisitions.

The coming in of welbeck is not bad, lets give him time as we may have done with Ozil.Even though he may not score, his pace intimidates opposition teams, unlike most of our players who are too slow on the ball and vanish in big games, therefore he is a good acquisition.

-- candidates will get a clue and start buying Adwords with their name, but also the name of their opponents (hint: the latter won't like and will take it out on Google)-- everytime there'll be big news (hurricane, breaking news, Paris Hilton's latest...) which tends to draw lots of eyeballs to Google, expect the whatever - happened - today keyword to point to the page of a candidate's site with his / her position on the topic du jour — opponents will urge their supporters to engage in whack - an - adword games (also known as click fraud) to cost as much money per click as possible to the other campaign and drive up cost of acquisition of a new visitor to the advertiser's site.

KeyCorp and M&T Bank Corp. each dropped a spot on SNL Financial's latest rankings of the biggest banks by assets in the United States, due to a big acquisition by another bank.

On the heels of the debate over how to categorize the biggest state land acquisition in a generation, the Adirondack Council pooh - poohed state government over what they perceived as a lack of commitment to expanding Wilderness, protecting forests and wildlife, addressing threats from off - road vehicles and strengthening state agencies.

Giving the order, the judge could not comprehend how a big national project such as the gas project could have been undertaken without due diligence on the acquisition of the land.

On Monday, Google announced the second - biggest acquisition in its history.

My prediction for 2009 isn't that the free dating sites will be fighting the pay sites but that we are going to see some acquisition activity on the free dating sites by the big boys.

It'll be a busy day and we're planning on covering a lot, from the big issues the industry is facing such as user acquisition and mobile monetisation, to European law, data security, SEO and apps.