Sentences with phrase «on single companies»

Concentration comes in another form: When too few companies make up a large share of the index, investors could be placing large bets on single companies.

Investing in these companies has the benefit of diversification, but it also means that you miss out on the huge rewards of picking correctly on a single company.

The Readium project is an important way to ensure ebooks can participate fully in that Web without depending on any single company or institution, and as one of the first to bring books online, Safari knows how vital that mission is and is proud to support the IDPF.

Is it critical to chase an emerging country's performance when that single country may be heavily reliant on a single company for its returns?

And since the fund holds more than 400 different stocks, you can benefit from these companies» rapid growth rates without depending too much on any single company's performance.

More often than not, Heath says, investors who load up on a single company are simply chasing past performance.

I do not want to be overly dependent on any single company for my dividend income, or a single sector.

Adequate diversification — however you define it — is probably the most reliable way for an investor to protect himself from the catastrophic effects that disruption can have on a single company / stock.

And I'm not gambling my success on a single company, but the economy at large.

Instead, it's better to spread your risk across several different stocks; that will allow you to avoid the big draw - downs that can easily come from losing one large bet on a single company.

That's a huge risk, betting all your money on a single company.

Union miners are among the 10.4 million Americans with retirements tied to multiemployer pension plans, the large investment pools considered low risk because they don't rely on a single company for financing.

The index is weighted by market cap with a limit of 25 % on any single company.

This seems reasonable diversified and should allay fears that Nepal will be reliant on a single company, Monsanto.

Not exact matches

His narrow range on Musk's business dealings appears to have a single focus: the companies» alleged misuse of government funds.

Singling out these products would put pressure on U.S. technology companies and could particularly hurt agricultural areas across the U.S. China is a key trade partner for U.S. agriculture — it purchased close to one - third of American soybeans last year.

MacMillan soon began to gut Alliance Atlantis's production unit in 2003 to focus on the franchise, which became the company's single - most - profitable venture by the time the company was sold.

And at small companies, where every single employee needs to pull their weight to move the business along, it can feel like nailing Jell - O to a wall and then trying to balance a cat on it.

If even a single EU citizen visits the website of a company based anywhere in the world and data is collected on that individual, that company must comply with GDPR or risk severe penalization.

The Tesla Semi «expected base price» is for a truck that the company promises can drive fully loaded at highway speeds for 300 miles on a single charge.

«Due to the fear of collecting thousands of signatures needed to sign off on the types of strategic decisions common among pre-IPO companies, higher - quality issuers — particularly those with other financing options — are less likely to crowdfund without a single - purpose vehicle,» Tommarello says.

To get an idea of its scope, consider that the company sold more than $ 14 billion worth of goods at its annual Singles» Day sales event on Nov. 11, a 60 % increase from last year.

So what we have now isn't just a single case, but an orchestrated attack on Gawker via multiple court cases, designed to bankrupt the company.

We recently did some research that found nearly 40 % of small - and medium - size businesses in Alberta were companies that each depended largely on a single client.

The gaming company said on Wednesday that it would move to a single class structure, reducing the voting power of chairman and co-founder Mark Pincus.

Many medical device companies, especially early - stage ones, concentrate on just a single device.

The gaming company, which makes titles such as «Farmville,» said on Wednesday that it was moving from a multi-class structure to a single class, reducing Pincus» control to about 10 percent, down from about 70 percent.

For example, front - line caisse workers have expressed irritation with having to juggle different protocols and technological systems for each of the company's various service offerings — personal banking, credit cards, investment accounts, insurance and so on — while serving a single member.

It's a far cry from the days — say 15 years ago — when less than a dozen banks held a corporate loan on their balance sheet, and companies could renegotiate the terms of their loan with a single creditor, or a small committee.

On the blog of his company, he shared the results of his radical rethink of his approach to meetings: Rather than try to keep one day a week clear of meetings in order to engage in deep, thoughtful work, Schweikardt decided he'd move all his get togethers to a single day, leaving him four days for his own projects rather than one.

It's the people who dedicate themselves to a single pursuit that come out on top, whether that one path is penny stock trading, company building or something else.

In one situation, an investor wanted the right to single - handedly force the company to refuse to take on new money, veto rights that Trabelsi felt were too extreme.

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO and legendary investor made the single biggest charitable donation this year, giving $ 2.1 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the form of 16.6 million shares of his company, according to Wealth - X's ranking of the 10 largest philanthropic donations of 2014 published on Wednesday.

Among the individual tracks seeing the biggest spikes were 1993's «Linger» and 1994's «Zombie,» with the hit singles seeing their global Spotify streams increase by 664 % and 320 % on Monday compared to the same day a week ago, the company said.

While FundersClub may operate a platform for companies to seek investment, they only select a single - digit (1 to 2 percent) of startups to appear on the platform, with top venture capital firms such as Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz already investing nearly $ 1 billion in companies that they've funded.

During recent years, Werklund has been focusing on philanthropy — in March he donated $ 16 million to Olds College, the biggest single donation in Alberta colleges» history — after stepping down from executive control of his company Canadian Crude Separators in 2010.

From marketing materials to blog content to even a single tweet, a poorly thought - out message can have an absolutely devastating impact on a company and quickly lead to a PR disaster.

With a start - up, they can have an impact on Day One, whereas in a large company, they would have to go through months of training only to be stuck in a single role.

When looking at defence stocks, beware of any company with large ties to a single big - ticket project, particularly if that project isn't on solid ground.

But the tech giants are increasingly encroaching on each other's turf with duplicative services, leading to a sort of department - store - ification of the internet where single - purpose specialty companies are becoming a rarity.

«Given how fast it was growing on a single look, you could see the boom and bust,» says Moore, whose firm specializes in buying consumer companies with strong brand loyalty.

The entire company will be housed on a single open floor with low - walled cubicles.

That might seem unfair to judge the company and its flagship conference on a single flopped product, but the fate of Glass is just the most high - profile in a long list of disappeared or disappointing products ranging from Google Reader to Google Wave to the Nexus Q and Android Wear — a platform that still exists, but I usually forget to wear my devices that run it.

An earlier draft of the Commission's mid-term review of its digital single market strategy showed it was considering legislation on how companies should take down hate speech and incitement to violence, but that idea has been scrapped.

In the case of Facebook, the company has more than 1.5 billion users — far more than any other single media business commands — and it tracks what they see and click on in ways that most media companies can only dream of.

Yesterday at the International CES, for example, home improvement giant Lowe's announced a new wave of products and services associated with Iris, the company's tool that allows you to customize and monitor your internet - connected home devices — like, say, a water shut - off valve that cuts supply when a leak is detected — from a single app on your smartphone or computer.

No matter how good a product a supplier offers, companies hate to be dependent on a single source.

This enables the company's software to manage data distributed on numerous machines as if that data were stored on a single system.

Currently, certain kinds of small businesses are exempt from paying employees the federal minimum wage, such as businesses with annual revenues less than $ 500,000, companies that transact within a single state, seasonal businesses, or companies that rely on contract workers.

Some 7,800 employees have lost their jobs since 3G bought Heinz in 2012, and the Brazilian firm's ruthless efficiency is now making its way through Kraft via «zero - based budgeting,» an approach that requires that every single expense be questioned, from company discounts on Kraft food to the amount of copier paper that can be used.