Sentences with phrase «only shareholders in the companies»

They again contended that when they set up the business, they faxed all necessary documents to the plaintiffs and the latter did not raise objection as being the only shareholders in the company.

Not directly, no - but then, only shareholders in the companies are.

Not exact matches

While shareholders will receive only the slightest of premiums on their 12 - cent share price, the big winners are bondholders, who will recoup a greater share of their loans and not be saddled with stock in an operationally troubled and undercapitalized company.

Although on balance these total amounts may be financially immaterial to shareholders, they may represent only a small part of what a company spends to influence political outcomes in the United States or here in Canada.

Only at one company did pay rise substantially without a commensurate rise in shareholder value, and several companies showed phenomenal growth in value with no change in CEO compensation.

It's a big part of Berkshire that stands to get only bigger, Buffett said in May at the company's annual shareholder meeting, adding that it's «hard to imagine a better - run operation.»

Business Insider believes in companies that not only achieve great financial success, but that create lasting value for their shareholders, employees, consumers, and society.

They will ensure that you acted prudently, exercised your duty of care, were transparent and acted only in the best of the company and all shareholders.

SABMiller's strategic shareholders, who hold 41 % of the company's stock, would receive a lower offer worth 37.49 a share paid overwhelmingly in the form of a new class of unlisted share with a five - year lock - up period (a premium of only 28 %).

«HomeServices is on track to do only about 3 % of the country's home - brokerage business in 2018,» Buffett wrote in his most recent shareholders report, referring to HomeServices of America Inc., which controls Trident and two other mortgage companies.

Kullman didn't comment on the DuPont - Dow merger specifically, but she said that deals in which companies are put together only to be broken up — which is what is happening in the DuPont - Dow transaction — are the product of short - term thinking, and not what's best for long - term shareholders or the company.

He then sued the company for «Proposal 2» in Apple's proxy statement, which essentially only allows Apple to issue preferred stock with the approval of shareholders.

I don't mean run it in the red — I mean pay yourself a huge salary, reward yourself with a gigantic bonus regardless of actual company performance, and issue a special class of shares that only you own that gives you ten times the dividends the other shareholders receive.

Known as the limited - liability company (LLC), this structure offers the best of all corporate worlds for many new businesses: personal - asset protection (normally available only to shareholders of C corporations), elimination of corporate - level taxes (a benefit normally reserved for partners or S - corporation owners), and flexible ownership rules (which S corporations in particular lack).

«You can work long, hard or smart, but at Amazon.com you can't choose two out of three,» Mr. Bezos wrote in his 1997 letter to shareholders, when the company sold only books, and which still serves as a manifesto.

Current regulations allow a company to exclude a resubmitted proposal from its proxy only if it failed to receive the support of 3 % of shareholders the last time it was voted on; 6 % if it has been voted on twice in the last five years; and 10 % if it was voted on three or more times in the last five years.

We were incorporated in 1998 and until we became a public company in November 2007 our only two shareholders were Morgan Stanley and Capital Group International.

Statements in this press release are not historical facts, including but not limited to the statements regarding JHL's future plans and its ability to complete the proposed Voluntary Delisting and maximize shareholder value, represent only the current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections of the Company and are forward - looking statements.

Using SEDAR, Canada's filing system for public companies, we could only verify one UrAsia shareholder (Ian Telfer) who also owned stocks in Uranium One in 2010 and who chaired its Board of Directors.

Shareholder Proposals on Information Requests Only Shareholder proposals have rightly played an important role in prodding companies both to adopt governance measures and to disclose campaign spending, often following a model developed by the Center for Political Accountability.

It was the Code of Business Conduct And Ethics that the company used to find Kazuo Okada — an early investor and formerly the largest single shareholder of Wynn Resorts — unsuitable to be a shareholder in the company, which ultimately led to not only his ouster from the Board of Directors but Wynn Resorts redeeming his shares.

Due to the company's classified board structure, shareholders will only vote on the re-election of two incumbent directors, Messrs. Benett and Sznewajs, at this year's annual meeting; however Richard J. Lashley and W. Kirk Wycoff were appointed to the board in Feburary 2017, and Mary A. Curran and Bonnie G. Hill are expected to join the board at the conclusion of the 2017 annual meeting.

In your 1987 letter to shareholders, you commented on the kind of companies Berkshire liked to buy: those that required only small amounts of capital.

A company that raises its dividend is not only rewarding its shareholders but also indicating its confidence in the future, and its potential for on - going profitability.

Investors do not invest directly in the companies, but rather a separately spun off venture fund that's managed by FundersClub, the only shareholder of record in the transaction.

Limited company is a business organization in which each shareholder is responsible only for the shares he or she holds.

So far, only a portion of this rise in company profits has been passed on to shareholders in the form of higher dividends; in April, the dividend yield was 3.7 per cent compared with 3.3 per cent in January.

In addition, its new management team announced a $ 50 million share - repurchase program that could add a lot of value for its shareholders if the company is cleared from any wrongdoing, or gets away with only paying small fines.

Aussie Farmers abandoned IPO plans in mid-to-late November after failing to generate enough interest from investors, who were no doubt spooked by the fact the company had racked up losses of more than $ 52 million pre-tax since 2015 and could only keep trading with the support of its major shareholders.

They argue that investment managers should exercise duties of stewardship, rather than maximising short - term returns; companies should serve the interests of a wider group of stakeholders, not only shareholders; successful businesses are rooted in their communities, acknowledging wider social obligations.

Yacob, 63, was the only candidate deemed eligible to run in the country's Elections Department after the other two contenders, Salleh Marican and Farid Khan, were both denied eligibility, having fallen short of a constitutional rule that required any candidate from the private sector to have led a company with shareholder equity of at least 500 million Singapore dollars (372 million dollars).

It also reflects the growing understanding that many shareholders are only invested in company for a matter of hours.

It means we have to end the situation where the chief executive wants to make decisions which will benefit his company in five years, when some of his shareholders are only interested in results in the next two months.

The group in question, the Friends of Pulau Redang, point out that their only direct involvement with RIR has been to attend an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders to monitor the company's activities.

«This is only the first of many steps that we believe can lead to the evolution of Friendable, creating a secondary opportunity that could become management's main driver in creating future value for the Company and our shareholders and thank all of our supporters for continuing to believe in management's ability to find solutions in a technology marketplace that is rapidly iterating,» concluded Rositano, Jr..

«As one of the only public pure - play interactive dating companies, SNAP has a tremendous opportunity to deliver great value to both its subscribers and shareholders as it offers innovative dating solutions in this rapidly growing market.

Vanguard shareholders, on the other hand, pay the company only $ 138 million to manage $ 82 billion in funds with similar asset allocations and levels of risk.

We believe the Avigen Board is not only willing to sacrifice and squander shareholder money but, in the process, its members are making a mockery of their obligations to fulfill their fiduciary duties as directors of the Company.

Thus, any position in SVLF at this point will only serve to place you in the middle of an acquisition with little upside (unless shareholders are successful in fighting the sale of the company).

Writing in this year's letters to shareholders, Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger said that Berkshire would «almost surely remain a better - than - normal company for a very long time» even if Buffett left tomorrow and even if his successors were «of only moderate ability.»

In this particular case, the company's investors (shareholders and bond holders) effectively create a tax shield by lending money to themselves (like our 401k example above), only this time it IS legal under IRS rules.

The only real case here these can occur in modern trading is where an institutional trader has already declared a takeover of the company and made an offer to all of the shareholders.

Working my butt off for 50 + hours per week for years on end only to see a highly likely cut in my commission checks and then seeing the payouts in the companies I'm invested in rise relentlessly year after year no matter how crappy of a shareholder I am in real life allows for an interesting contrast and really opens ones eyes: being a shareholder is much more rewarding with much less work required.

This all stands in contrast to a bank, where only shareholders have any say in the company.

In fact I think I was lucky that the shares «only» declined 48 % and that's due the fact that the two large investors have taken an activist role to make sure that most of the remaining cash is returned to shareholder; without them the cash would have probably been «re-invested» by management to keep the company alive (and thus feeding management their salaries) as long as possible.

While the interim CEO searches for opportunities, the company could conceivably end up buying back enough shares in the open market so that we're the only shareholder left.

It's only when Board members have significant ownership in the company (and this is VERY unusual) that they actually look out for the shareholders (themselves, obviously).

A company involved in only one profitable line of business would typically prefer selling out to liquidating because possible double taxation (taxes both at the corporate and shareholder level) would be avoided.

They don't disclose their shareholding percentage / size, or disclose it's a minority stake in an unlisted (shares only trade OTC) company with a dominant shareholder.

This strategy dictates that one should invest only in companies that share their growing profit with shareholders in the form of growing dividends.