Sentences with phrase «point of value from»

This works out to getting only about 1 cent per point of value from your SPG points, where I value them at at least 2.5 cents each.

What's more, if you use your points at Priceline.com, you'll get 1.5 cents per point of value from these points for a total of $ 150 cash back.

so I was essentially getting around 1.56 cents / point of value from my points.

If you could redeem 10,000 Amex Membership Rewards points for that same stick would you actually believe that you're getting 10 cents / point of value from your points?

Not exact matches

«Third Point believes that a separation of the Aerospace unit via a spin off transaction would result in a sustained increase in shareholder value in excess of $ 20 billion,» a letter from the fund said.

Because of the way frequent flyer programs work, you can usually get a lot more value from a lot fewer miles than credit card points.

His point is that you shouldn't care about the values of the person you buy from.

FMS earnings before tax as a percentage of FMS total revenue and FMS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.0 % and 4.8 %, respectively, both down 60 basis points from the prior year, primarily reflecting higher depreciation due to vehicle residual value policy changes and lower used vehicle sales results.

The Cut & Color Room offers clients a range of rewards — from services to free flatirons and blow - dryers — for as few as 100 Perka points or as many as 10,000, depending on the retail value of items purchased.

The point is that the nation has received zero value from trillions in quantitative easing, and so if even 10 % of the 130 million households do something useful with their $ 10,000 in cash then that would be one heck of a lot more than we've gotten from the trillions thrown down the rathole of a venal, corrupted, insolvent banking sector.

From an ethical point of view, the decisions they make and the values to which they subscribe are disproportionately important.

Case in point, independent research conducted by the Capgemini Digital Transformation Institute confirms that 51 percent of consumers already utilize voice assistants, with 81 percent of those users primarily accessing the voice assistant through a smartphone, citing convenience, multitasking enablement and speed as value - adds from the voice assistant experience.

I pointed out, among other things, that a large portion of Tesla shareholders own the stock because they believe in Musk's mission, i.e., part of their value comes from the idealistic goals.

While thought provoking, the real value of the book comes from the practical, templated framework the authors provide for designing your own category that includes a clear articulation of the problem at hand, creating a memorable name for a category, and developing a unique point of view about the current and future of the category.

«Nobody would have thought it was possible for GE's market value to fall from a high of $ 600 billion to as low as $ 70 billion at one point,» said Wright.

Without taking the time to think carefully about where your notions of achievement and purpose come from and what success means to you, you're in a terrible position to decide if this week's hot «how to be successful» advice applies to you or only to someone who thinks the point of life is something you actually don't value much at all.

Reflecting from the vantage point of his values revealed how to improve his life by his values.

From the buyers point of view, the value of an asset should always be fluid.

But family lawyers and women's rights workers believe the legislation represents a turning point in the freedoms of Russian women, a dark signal from the very top of government that their lives are losing value.

Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run - rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of remaining net cash (vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin company would put the stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.

As the New Republic points out, a box of Kraft mac and cheese «will still contain around 780 calories, 75 calories from fat, 9 grams of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, and 1,710 milligrams of sodium (a whopping 72 percent of the daily value).

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year, fixed - rate mortgages with conforming loan balances of $ 424,100 or less decreased to 4.33 percent from 4.46 percent, with points increasing to 0.43 from 0.41, including the origination fee, for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

And from Berkshire Hathaway is one of Buffett's investment deputies, Todd Combs, a value investor who previously ran hedge fund Castle Point Capital for five years.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed rate mortgages with conforming loan balances of $ 424,100 or less increased to 4.23 percent from 4.20 percent, with points decreasing to 0.32 from 0.37, including the origination fee, for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

The average expense ratio for a mutual fund offered in a 401 (k) plan of any size was 54 basis points, a steady and significant decline from the average of 74 basis points in 2009, when the Great Recession had collapsed 401 (k) account values.

From a purely accounting point of view, parent company which owns less than one hundred percent, but more than fifty percent of a subsidiary presents the value of the remaining ownership, the minority ownership, on the balance sheet in a separate account.

By having the Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card on your account, the value of Chase Ultimate reward points goes from $ 0.01 to $ 0.0125 or more.

You could, of course, use points from a fixed value travel card that offers «travel credit» like the Barclaycard Arrival Plus, but booking through the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal is often just as good.

The level of interest from these firms serves as a point of validation of the value and potential of the technology and talent that is being developed in the space.

Ultimate Rewards (earned from the Sapphire Reserve / Preferred) can be used at a fixed - value when booking through UltimateRewards.com but can also be worth more when transferring to travel partners like Hyatt or United where you pay a fixed number of points in those programs which are not dependent on the cash cost of that room / flight otherwise.

Citing Ripple's traction with global banks, including UBS, Santander, CIBC, UniCredit, ReiseBank, ATB Financial and National Bank of Abu Dhabi, the report points out that far from being just hype, Ripple's solution is already cutting the time and internal costs for cross-border payments for banks, while enabling the increasingly crucial use case of high - volume, low - value global transactions.

While a lot of the value of the Starwood Preferred Guest ® American Express Luxury Card lies in its ability to earn points, The Platinum Card ® from American Express focuses on giving cardholders a number of luxury and cost - saving travel perks.

My University of Alberta colleague Andrew Leach is fond of pointing out that exports of manufactured products from Southwestern Ontario push up the value of the Canadian dollar, making life more difficult for oil sands producers.

«I would point out only that if you look at the rise in the Dow for example, some 20 % or so is just from the rise of Goldman Sachs» (GS) value and that if you look at financials broadly they account for something like a third of that increase.

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Despite having been in the investment business for over a decade at that point, most of my reading had been about other value managers, so I was excited about learning from traders who used completely different investment philosophies than we used at Oakmark.

Reports from CCN point out that: To explain the Plasma Cash model, Buterin gives the example that if a user deposits some amount of ether to a crypto exchange or any third party service, a Plasma coin would be created with the same value of ether and a unique ID that can not be merged or split.In contrast with Plasma, Plasma Cash would only require users to pay attention to the blocks that contain coins they want to keep track of:

There are so many ways to maximize the value of your Chase Ultimate Rewards points earned from using your Chase Sapphire Preferred ® card.

And in the meantime the value of credit cards has fluctuated from point one all the way up to a point to a Bitcoins for a bitcoin cash and now is dwindles to.

Reuters cited «a disappointing outlook from Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO)» as one of the factors weighing on the market this morning, but as I pointed out in my review of Cisco's fiscal second - quarter earnings, the outlook wasn't disappointing and today's decline in the stock looks like a buying opportunity for long - term, value - oriented investors.

«At one point I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham, but rather set out on his own path, and ran money his way, by his own rules...» I have just quickly glanced at Bronte Capital's blog post, but I am sure Todd Combs and Ted Weschler were not hired because they lived and died by Buffet's word but rather because they manifested the teachings of value investing in their own styles.

To determine your estimated equity, just subtract the outstanding balance of your loan from the estimated value of your property and you will have a great starting point for determining what types of refinance loans will work for you.

In addition, pure - play broadcasters are valued from 6 - 9x EV / EBITDA and one could argue that MEG deserves a valuation closer towards the mid point or higher for its peers when factoring the disposal of newspapers and accounting for the high quality locations of its key stations.

The card comes with outstanding rewards, with Starpoints from the Starwood Preferred Guest loyalty program having one of the highest average dollar values per point in any loyalty program we've researched.

While the opportunity for point value is lower, cash back programs are simple and cardholders are guaranteed a predictable rate of return from their credit card rewards, without having to decipher loyalty programs or search for award availability.

That said, from the point of view of unhedged U.S. investors, FTSE 100 holdings still lost a lot of their value, reflecting the currency depreciation.

For those who have trouble redeeming their travel rewards, they run the risk of getting no value from the points they've accumulated.

Finally, we find that the market reaction to announcements of material covenant violations is 88 basis points lower among borrowers whose lenders face short - termism incentives, which suggests that the incremental attention from lenders with short - termism incentives does not improve shareholder value.

Lauren lives in Chattanooga, with her husband, Scott Phillips, who is a portfolio manager of the Global Maximum Pessimism Fund and author of the investing book, Buying at the Point Maximum Pessimism: Six Value Investing Trends from China to Oil to Agriculture, 2010, FT Press, and co-author to the revised edition of The Templeton Touch, 2012, Templeton Press.

We are value investors for many reasons, one of which is that establishing an estimated intrinsic value provides an anchor or a solid point of reference from which the turbulence of markets can be viewed dispassionately.