Sentences with phrase «on shareholder capital»

That, combined with an increased focus on higher margin specialty foods, has resulted in relatively stable and improving margins and returns on shareholder capital over time.

While the company operates in a highly capital intensive industry, the nature of its military and government contracts also locks in relatively high profitability, resulting in cyclical but relatively stable and generous profits and returns on shareholder capital.

After all, it's a capital light industry that is highly scalable; relatively small fixed overhead costs can be amortized over vast asset bases, resulting in some very fat margins and returns on shareholder capital as an asset manager's business expands.

Hormel's corporate culture is all about long - term profit maximization, which has allowed it to generate strong, consistent, and growing margins and returns on shareholder capital over time.

Not exact matches

Performance assesses criteria such as return on capital and shareholder return to determine which leaders are generating the best financial results.

Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners ended up raising the buyout offer, and in July, 2008, at the apex of the LBO boom, and just weeks before the Financial Crisis began to muddy up the news on Clear Channel radio stations, the majority of shareholders accepted the offer.

Debt - to - capital ratio excluding net unrealized gain on investments, net of tax, included in shareholders» equity, is the ratio of debt to total capitalization excluding the after - tax impact of net unrealized investment gains and losses included in shareholders» equity.

Calls on executives to use capital more constructively could yet have a bearing on a number of deals in the pipeline, particularly if shareholders withdraw support in favour of more organic investment, the investors said.

The company, whose shareholders include Insight Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and Toba Capital, plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol «AYX.»

The statement said 3G Capital, the majority owner of Burger King, would continue to own the majority of the shares of the new company on a pro forma basis, with the remainder held by existing shareholders of Tim Hortons and Burger King.

Now we can begin delivering on two of our most important priorities — returning a higher level of that capital to our shareholders and improving Citi's overall returns,» Citi CEO Michael Corbat said in a release.

While this decision by shareholders seems to affirm their confidence in Musk and his vision, Vilas Capital is betting against Tesla, with Thompson predicting the company will crash in the next three - to - six months due to problems delivering on the Model 3 and falling demand for the Model S and X.

Entrepreneurs who list on equity - crowdfunding platforms will have an opportunity to raise serious capital and must also manage new expectations, responsibilities and obligations to regulators and shareholders.

Qualcomm said on Tuesday it had entered into agreements with nine NXP stockholders, who collectively own more than 28 percent of NXP, including top shareholder Soroban Capital Partners LP and second - largest Elliott.

But when shareholders vote down a pay package, companies will often sit down with major shareholders — which in Cheniere's case includes Soroban Capital Partners and PointState Capital — and consult with them on how to change their pay practices.

Then on Friday a shareholder group — including investors Shervin Pishevar, Ron Burkle and Adam Leber — demanded venture capital firm Benchmark divest some of its shares and step down from the board of the troubled start - up.

Here's some more color on returning cash to shareholders from Butters» note: «Share repurchase programs have become a very popular way of returning capital to shareholders over the years.

The investor Paul Tudor Jones has a nonprofit called Just Capital that tracks how companies in the United States are creating long - term value instead of focusing solely on shareholders.

The pressure on Tribune's controlling shareholder, Chicago - based entrepreneur Michael Ferro, increased after the company's second - largest shareholder — investment fund Oaktree Capital Management — sent a letter to the company's board advising it to «engage Gannett immediately» about the takeover bid, calling it «the only possible conclusion consistent with your fiduciary duty.»

But Exxon pays half its annual bonus in cash immediately and in its proxy, it cited one - and five - year return on average capital, current - year and five - year average earnings, and current - year as well as the ten - year average annual shareholder returns as part of the justification for its pay.

The company said it has cut back its capital expenditures forecast «by focusing on the critical near - term needs that benefit us primarily in the next couple of years,» the company said in its shareholder letter.

But shareholders» hopes for a sweetened bid may be unrealistic because Dell's PC business is just not in high demand, said Dan Niles, chief investment officer at AlphaOne Capital, on CNBC's Halftime Report Tuesday.

The statement of claim also alleges that Ferro massively diluted the existing shareholders by issuing Soon - Shiong shares worth about 13 % of the company (Tribune says «The stock sales to Merrick Media and Nant Capital were approved by the Board of Directors and will provide valuable growth capital to allow the company to execute on its new value - creating businessCapital were approved by the Board of Directors and will provide valuable growth capital to allow the company to execute on its new value - creating businesscapital to allow the company to execute on its new value - creating business plan).

Flaherty supports the proposal, arguing in an April letter to his G20 counterparts that embedded contingent capital would «force the costs of excessive risk - taking to be removed from taxpayers and placed on to the right people — shareholders and subordinated debt holders — thus improving market discipline.»

«We are moving forward with a continued sense of urgency on our four strategic priorities: narrowing our focus on clients, products, and geographies where we can grow profitably; driving for efficiency; growing through innovation and optimizing our data assets and client relationships; and returning excess capital to shareholders,» he added.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on iCapital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on iCapital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on icapital, return on invested

This firm aligns executives» and shareholders» interests by tying compensation to economic earnings and has increased its return on invested capital (ROIC) for five straight years.

Short - term fixes like acquisitions and buybacks won't cut it anymore, and they'll have to focus more on creating long - term value for shareholders by allocating capital more efficiently.

However, CLX management has been more focused on returning excess capital to shareholders via dividends.

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One of those people calling for Kalanick to go was one of the company's biggest shareholders, the venture capital firm Benchmark, which has one of its partners, Bill Gurley, on Uber's board.

On the eve of a special shareholders» meeting last May by Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSX: TKO), activist shareholder Raging River Capital LP threw in the towel.

Despite all this conversation, Bevin Wirzba, ARC's senior vice-president, business development and capital markets, says shareholders are «increasingly requesting more frequent updates on our operations, plans and state of the organization.»

Putting Nelson Petz on DuPont's board struck many of them as a low - cost means, with little downside risk, of keeping DuPont «in play» and signaling the shareholders» desire for more spinoffs and less investment in long - term capital projects, including research and development.

April 6 U.S. supermarket operator Supervalu Inc is exploring a potential sale following pressure from activist shareholders, including Blackwells Capital LLC, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.

We think this combination provides a uniquely well - screened list of long ideas because return on invested capital (ROIC) is the primary driver of shareholder value creation.

That said, we will continue to evaluate opportunities that maximize the risk adjusted returns on our capital for the benefit of our common shareholders.»

Peltz also proposed cutting other «excess» costs, adding debt, adopting a more shareholder - friendly policy for distributing cash from CyclicalCo / CashCo, prioritizing high returns on invested capital for initiatives at GrowthCo, and introducing more shareholder - friendly governance, including tighter alignment between executive compensation and returns to shareholders.

The country's second largest private hospital operator on Thursday confirmed it received an offer from a consortium led by new private equity firm BGH Capital and major Healthscope shareholder AustralianSuper.

1,900 companies have spent money on buybacks and dividends since 2010, and the combined return of capital to shareholders for those companies equals 113 % of capital spending, according to Reuters.

Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is a holding company whose corporate objective is to achieve a high rate of return on invested capital and build long term shareholder value.

Yet this time around Burger King, backed by its largest shareholder, a Brazilian private equity firm called 3G Capital, plans to locate the holding company that will control the two chains squarely on Canadian soil.

Financial risk: The potential for gain or loss on a financial level measured in terms of revenue, return on investment, return on equity, shareholder value, profitability, debt level, capital expenditures and free cash flow.

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They have their eye set on the long term which will allow them to continue to returning capital to shareholders.

«U.S. multinational corporations can defer paying tax on profits they earn abroad indefinitely by agreeing not to use the earnings for certain purposes, like paying dividends to shareholders, financing domestic acquisitions, guaranteeing loans, or making investments in physical capital in the U.S..

The investors included one of Uber's biggest shareholders, the venture capital firm Benchmark, which has one of its partners, Bill Gurley, on Uber's board.

Double taxation of dividends: Most tax systems that have both corporate and individual income taxes levy tax on corporate profits twice, once at the corporate level and again at the individual level when shareholders receive profits in the form of dividends or capital gains.

Also it complains about Simon's «opaque disclosure and disenfranchising dual - class capital structure,» which is maybe a bit rich since Macerich simultaneously adopted a poison pill and staggered board to prevent its own shareholders from voting on Simon's offer.

«RESOLVED, that the shareholders hereby approve, on an advisory basis, High River's proposal that Apple commit to completing not less than $ 50 billion of share repurchases during Apple's fiscal year ending September 27, 2014 (and increase the amount authorized for share repurchases under its Capital Return Program accordingly).»