Sentences with phrase «owning stocks of a company»

If you own the stock of a company you are a shareholder.

For me as a dividend growth investor, owning stocks of a company is so much more.

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In an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, posted to Icahn's website Thursday, he outlined a share buyback program in which Apple would repurchase $ 150 billion of its own stock in order to improve company growth.

An investor who bought Google stock 13 years ago at its IPO price of $ 85 would now own a piece of the company worth about 22 times their original investment.

The stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could buy the retail operations of oil and gas giant Hess, which owns about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.

A huge portion of the stock photo market is owned by professional companies like Shutterstock and 123RF, who charge $ 20 or more for a single photo.

Additionally, the company tried to curry favor with investors by pledging to buy back another $ 100 billion of its own stock and raise its dividend by 16 %.

Jim Cramer says investors shouldn't own the stock of Newell Brands as the company falls under increasing pressure from activist investors.

Throughout 2012, Shaw purchased hundreds of thousands of shares in his own company, an effort to prop up the cable giant's flagging stock.

Recently released preliminary data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners — the Census Bureau's effort to take stock of American companies every five years — show that the fraction of businesses owned by women improved substantially over the past five years.

Although some investors are skeptical, a company's lack of profitability upon IPO isn't so unusual among online firms going public this year; user - review competitor Yelp annouced this week it would file for an IPO of its own, and investors still are hot on Groupon stock that generated a $ 700 million IPO.

Admittedly, after years of acquisitions, Berkshire's bottom line has more to do with the performance of the increasingly large companies it owns — including, for instance, railroad giant BNSF and Heinz — and less to do with the returns of its stock market portfolio.

He wrote that both Combs and Weschler, who Buffett has indicated are likely to take over managing the bulk of Berkshire's massive stock market portfolio when he leaves the company, had «handily» beaten the market, as well as Buffett's own performance, for the second year in a row.

To be fair, Buffett himself isn't responsible for picking all the stocks that Berkshire owns, as his two deputies, Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, are now managing large portfolios of their own at the company.

At last year's Sohn Conference, the founder and CEO of hedge fund Glenview Capital still believed that regulators would bless the mergers of health insurance companies whose stocks he owned, including Anthem, Cigna, Aetna and Humana.

Japanese company Nintendo (ntdoy) owns a large stake in the game's publisher, The Pokemon Company, and has seen its stock price surge after the runaway success of Pokecompany Nintendo (ntdoy) owns a large stake in the game's publisher, The Pokemon Company, and has seen its stock price surge after the runaway success of PokeCompany, and has seen its stock price surge after the runaway success of Pokemon Go.

Under the deal, Hollender and Newman would each own 23 % of company stock.

The social network's stock has fallen into a bear market territory as the company faces regulatory threats of its own amid privacy leaks.

The wealthiest people in the United States, many of whom own stock in leading global companies, have long benefited from free trade, or the unrestricted exchange of goods and services, Cramer explained.

At least with a dot - com stock you owned an actual piece of equity in the underlying company (even if, like TheGlobe.com, a failed social media network, it only had revenues of $ 780,000 per quarter).

The math on stock buybacks is pretty simple: by repurchasing your own company's stock in the market you reduce the number of shares outstanding, thereby increasing your earnings per share by cutting your denominator (earnings per share is calculated by dividing income by shares outstanding).

Many have put up their own shares or stock of companies they own as collateral for their loans and are increasingly copying the convoluted fund - raising strategies employed by American hedge funds and private equity firms in financing their global expansion drives.

Whatever the reason companies are buying back their own stock, it is becoming on of the biggest trends of the post-financial-crisis stock market.

(In addition to its stock holdings, Berkshire owns a large, diverse portfolio of companies outright.)

For instance, Albert Wiggin, head of Chase National Bank, cleaned up during the crash of 1929 by short - selling his own company stock.

The fund owns stocks in hotels and other leisure companies, but almost 60 % of it is made up of restaurant stocks — top holdings include Starbucks, Yum Brands, and McDonald's.

The last time multinational companies repatriated cash — also during the last Bush presidency — a bipartisan Senate investigation later found that those same companies actually shipped even more jobs overseas, while paying their shareholders billions through buybacks of their own stock.

In recent years, much has been made of how much companies are spending to buy back their own stock, particularly with buybacks up 50 % so far this year.

The Saudi Stock Exchange has taken steps to prepare for the initial public offering of state - owned oil company Aramco.

And we thought the best way to have those kinds of universal values was to build around company - owned stores and then to provide stock options to every employee, to give them a financial and psychological stake in the company.»

Though Warren Buffett has long championed dividend stocks as part of his investment philosophy, when it comes to his own company, Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a), the investor has been loath to pay dividends.

This includes $ 24.05 per share in cash and $ 9.10 worth of a tracking stock for VMWare (VMW), an EMC - owned cloud and virtualization software company that already has around a 20 % equity «stub» trading on the public markets.

Companies that buy back a lot of their own stock have also underperformed in recent months, according to the note.

Instead of buying a specific asset class like a company's stock or a currency, futures and options contracts allow traders to profit from their bets on future prices and to hedge losses on what they already own.

He did buy some stock in January 2016, when markets corrected, and he's holding about 20 % of his portfolio in cash that he intends to deploy when the companies he wants to own take a dive.

When an investment firm requested a search of documents related to Sino - Forest Corp., the Chinese forestry giant once listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, a due diligence software engine dubbed The Brain came up with an article that asserted the company didn't appear to own as much land as it claimed to.

Most of the company would continue to be owned by current parent IAC / InterActiveCorp, via a triple - class stock structure.

That's the position Viacom now finds itself in, having chosen CEO Philippe Dauman as its new chairman, over the objections of Shari Redstone, who owns 20 % of the company's stock.

Bowers and his wife also own 100 % of the company's stock, which provides another long - term financial incentive.

Third Point, which settled a bitter proxy battle with Yahoo last year after months of criticism of the company, will still own about 20 million shares, less than 2 percent of the Internet media company's common stock.

The company doesn't pay a dividend and rarely buys back its own stock, so failing to consummate a few major transactions adds to the cash that keeps piling up from dozens of subsidiaries including insurer Geico and BNSF Railway.

The one element binding this diverse group of investors together is that they receive some type of equity or stock vehicle when they put money into a growth company; each group then has its own set of goals in regard to how much of an investment return its members hope to earn on that stock and how quickly they hope to earn it (usually when they cash out during an initial public offering or in a merger or acquisition deal).

He owned 1.2 % of the company and held 1.7 million stock options.

She had acquired the capital to build the company by selling equity to a group of angel investors, who owned just over 50 percent of the stock and thus controlled the board.

Mutual funds have poured large amounts of capital into what they perceive as the next peer group of public companies and one insider described it to me as simply «buying their IPO allocations now since they will need to own the stock once it's public.»

Icahn, who owns more than 42 million shares of the insurance giant's stock, had sent a public letter to the company's CEO, Peter Hancock, in late October saying the company continued «to severely underperform» and was «too big to succeed.»

Yet considering the soaring value of Whole Foods's stock in the not too distant past, the online retailer could have easily had to shell out a lot more to own the grocery company.

«If you think of private company stock as a product of a company, what seller of a company isn't allowed to talk about their own product, their own goods?»

It's far too easy to believe, in our modern world, that you can graduate from a top 10 school, flawlessly establish yourself in the corporate world or with your own startup, build the perfect team, and either invest in perfect stocks or sell your own company for billions of dollars by the time you're 27.

«10 - Percent Stockholder» means an individual who owns more than 10 % of the total combined voting power of all classes of outstanding stock of the Company or of its parent corporation or subsidiary corporation (as defined in Code Sections 424 (e) and (f)-RRB-.