Sentences with word «optionality»

For example, what venture capitalist Bill Gurley called «frothy trades in the bubbly late stage private market» in 2011 is a great example of overpaying for optionality.

Again, this has nothing to do with GAAP accounting, but it has a lot to do with positive optionality in the liabilities of the firm.

Coke is a blue - chip stock that is a great investment to consider for dividend investors looking to add yield to their portfolio with optionality for continued dividend increases well into the future.

I just decided that I'd had it, that the hedge funds, Standard General and Litespeed Management, that provided the needed financing to continue operations had basically taken all the upside optionality out of the common shares.

Increased market volatility makes residential MBS buyers more skittish, and they demand a higher yield for bearing the negative optionality inherent in RMBS.

This is due to a strong balance sheet that could allow it to pursue accretive deals as well as positive optionality in its existing portfolio.

Salix has a flexible supply chain, including multiple manufacturing plants in Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and two in Colombia, which will give Spectrum Brands» Pet business increased optionality for a low - cost global rawhide production and supply network.

«Optionality from a user standpoint allows for the adjustment of space needs to vary in terms of size, location, and use on an as - needed basis.»

It rather provides optionality for further upside potential.

Galapagos (GLPG)- Partnered assets continue to progress in the clinic, its IPF program offers optionality, efforts in cystic fibrosis to develop a triple combination therapy should not be underestimated and Gilead (GILD)- partnered filgotinib could have peak sales of over $ 3 billion alone.

We're excited about that because it provides users with more optionality within a [user interface] and experience that is of high - quality and super reliable,» she adds.

She pointed out that the project will favorably impact crude prices and increase market optionality.

Optionality means to have more upside than downside because the company has options.

As we have often written, when we buy shares of a commodity producer, we attempt to do so at a share price that gives us free optionality.

Humans love optionality, but hate to miss out.

(The presence of interest - rate caps can create further optionality.)

Daniel and Moskowitz (2013) and Barroso and Santa - Clara (2014) show that extreme volatility tends to be predictive of subsequent momentum crashes and Granger et al. (2014) show how optionality imbedded in a rebalancing strategy is a timing mechanism that can help generate a higher return and a higher Sharpe ratio, albeit at a cost of altering higher moments.

The embedded «option cost» can be quantified by subtracting the OAS from the Z - spread (which ignores optionality and volatility).

Seth Klarman, Howard Marks and other value investors use dry powder in the form of cash to harvest optionality since Mr. Market is bi-polar.

As another example, a venture capitalist who invests in a team which (1) is strong technically, (2) has sound business judgment and (3) addresses a huge market opportunity has acquired optionality since the company can often find success with an offering the founders did not conceive from the beginning, but rather found as they went along.

But you can cultivate this upside optionality by making sure your book gets in front of as many people as possible.»

Investors are incentivized to retain optionality for as long as possible, and without competition for your deal, they have no reason to give you an answer immediately.

«We view Kraft Heinz as a core holding given best - in - class M&A optionality, & improving returns & sales growth.

But they always revert to holding out the prospect of rate increases soon, partly for internal comity and partly to preserve optionality.

Radius Health (RDUS)- The TYMLOS launch continues to progress well (as reflected in sales, insurance coverage and market penetration), the opportunity for abaloparatide - transdermal patch appears underappreciated and elacestrant provides high optionality.

«Although our views are dogmatic, we build positions with asymmetry through optionality, so that even if we're wrong, we have a defined downside» Kyle Bass

You may need to work longer to be able to afford such optionality.

The Best Venture Capitalists Harvest Optionality (Dealing with Risk, Uncertainty and Ignorance)

Embiid gives the Sixers an element at the offensive end that No other team has Plus Embiid can flair out to the 3 pt line but his presence gives Brown Optionality & at the Defensive end Embiid is simply the Best defensive player in the NBA — Jojo w / Ben & Roco on the Defensive end is as Dominant as it gets on that end.

LBD's are versatile because their neutral nature allows for accessory optionality.

The Bureau drives efficiencies and creates further financing optionality for projects in a shorter timeframe helping to accelerate the repair and development of critical US transportation infrastructure.

It depends on how important convenience and lower monthly payments are to you compared to higher long - term interest expense, and less optionality.

Buffett likes convertibles, particularly if they offer attractive optionality at the right price.

Entrepreneurs harvest optionality when they tinker and experiment as they run their businesses and as a positive externality benefit their city / region / nation / the world in the aggregate by generating productivity and genuine growth in the economy even if legions of entrepreneurs may fail.

For example, venture capitalists buy mispriced optionality and traders buy mispriced assets based on factors like momentum.

First, the ability of the business to create or extend the moat can be underappreciated since the investment thesis is contrarian or not recognized since it involves optionality.

«Optionality works by negative information, reducing the space of what we do by knowledge of what does not work.

And yet, there is hidden optionality to having a strong balance sheet — you can buy and hold quality obscure bonds, but if thing go really well, you can sell the bonds to anxious bidders scrambling for yield, while you hold more higher quality bonds during a yield mania.

The lender was very creative and able to provide a structure that provided alternatives and optionality required to pull off the acquisition.

Lenders have also began to offer more floating rate product on a long - term basis to facilitate pre-pay optionality and lower pay rates.»

Companies (1) focused on a niche market, (2) have employees with limited technical skills, (3) which raised too much money at an inflated early valuation or (4) are highly leveraged are examples of companies with negative optionality.

«It's an Internet - based company with a lot of upside optionality that is sacrificing current profits and taking all of the profits from an existing cash cow business and [pouring] it into a growth opportunity.»

You get positive optionality and your downside is clipped.

If you think about it, if you are long government bonds that yield less than 1 % (or negative), you are massively short optionality.

Spoelstra tends to favor sets that are loaded with optionality.

Putting yourself out there increases optionality.