The desire for so many sellers to avoid capital gains means they are willing to pay higher
prices than investors with other investment criteria.
Not exact matches
The Mt. Gox collapse precipitated a Bitcoin
price crash of more
than 70 %, shaking
investors» confidence in the cryptocurrency for so long that it took Bitcoin more
than two years to recover.
In BlackBerry's case, however,
investors have sent the company's share
price up more
than 12 % so far today after a dismal set of earnings were released this morning.
Reports indicate that the new
investors will have control over some salary and hiring decisions, as well as the ability to block any eventual sale of Gawker Media if a
price tag comes in lower
than $ 100 million.
Some of those rachets, says Fenwick & West partner Barry Kramer, do more
than protect against a decline in
price — they're locking in profits for late - stage
investors.
Although the
price of Bitcoin has lost more
than half of its value since peaking in December at nearly $ 20,000, the cryptocurrency has still made many
investors wealthy.
In early stage deals
investors used to commonly ask for a provision preventing the company from going public for less
than a certain
price.
Over the course of 2017, bitcoin saw more
than a 1,000 % gain in
price, creating some pretty significant capital gains for some
investors.
Investors had a strong appetite for the company's stock, chomping up shares
priced at $ 26 for the debut, and pushing the stock
price up more
than 50 percent soon after the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Indeed, airlines» average
price - to -2017-earnings ratio remains more
than 40 % below the S&P 500 average of 18, a sign of
investors» lack of faith.
Still, the massive
price increase means that Mulesoft left money on the table when it offered because it could have set its IPO
price higher
than $ 17, potentially raising more money from
investors.
A bet on the
price of oil is not exactly conservative investing, but MLPs are cheaper
than they've been in years, and the income they can offer
investors is substantial.
But for
investors who study the forces that govern stock
prices long term, the outlook was no more upbeat after the election
than it was before — and it was far from terrific.
One of the biggest disappointments for
investors was Research In Motion, which was down more
than 50 % between January and September, though its share
price has bounced back somewhat since.
He had been anticipating a drop in oil
prices, for example, but rather
than play oil producers (which Canadian
investors already hold a lot of), he decided to focus on the energy transportation sector.
MarketX would give
investors access to more
than 40 pre-IPO markets around the U.S., and is able to monitor
prices in real time.
Rather
than selling half of the
investor's shares at a lower
price, the Market Maker will fill the remaining 500 shares of the order at $ 5.
LONDON, Jan 24 - Gold
prices hit the highest in more
than five months on Wednesday after a U.S. official welcomed a weaker dollar and
investors sought insurance against uncertainty.
Still, that's lower
than the $ 15 to $ 17 a share
price that the company had quoted earlier on in its IPO process, suggesting institutional
investors just aren't as excited about the company as previously thought.
LONDON, Jan 24 - Gold
prices hit the highest in more
than four months on Wednesday after a U.S. official welcomed a weaker dollar and
investors sought insurance against uncertainty.
Over the past week,
investors have bought more
than 37,000 calls at the January 20 strike
price in Regions Financial, according to Jon Najarian, Najarian Family Office co-founder and «Halftime Report» contributor.
LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters)- Gold
prices hit the highest in more
than four months on Wednesday after a U.S. official welcomed a weaker dollar and
investors sought insurance against uncertainty.
Some foreign
investors, rather
than crunching data on earnings and stock valuations to come up with investment strategies, actively mimicked the actions of China's so - called «national team» — a group of state - backed financial institutions that were tasked with propping up share
prices in the height of the market rout.
When
investors buy call contracts, they are hoping the stock will rise above the strike
price by more
than the cost of the trade.
The actual
price could be higher or lower
than Facebook's given range, depending on
investor demand.
«
Investors seem reluctant to
price in anything more severe
than trade sanctions, and the absence of another «fire and fury» Trump tweet has helped encourage markets to respond warily.»
Blankfein served in Goldman's top spot for more
than 12 years and his tenure features both the 2008 financial crisis (and multimillion - dollar settlements with the government over allegations that Goldman had lied to
investors) as well as all - time highs for its stock
price.
While many people think of themselves as Warren Buffett - style value
investors, buying an undervalued company and hanging on until its stock
price rises is a lot harder
than it looks.
There's no rational reason for such moves other
than some are efforting (successfully, to date) to buoy
prices and calm otherwise edgy and excitable bitcoin
investors.
Apollo said it will pay $ 17.12 per share in cash for ClubCorp, a 30.7 percent premium over its closing
price on Friday, but less
than the 12 - month high of $ 17.50 the shares reached in February, on
investor expectations that a sale process first reported by Reuters in January would be successful.
BlackBerry still owns more
than 40 % of the North American smartphone market, and though it continues to show healthy growth in emerging markets,
investors worry about the declining average sale
price for its products, about RIM's failure to make a dent in the consumer marketplace, and about the growing sense that it no longer offers an enterprise user anything that one of its sexier rivals doesn't do as well or better.
Investors love warrants because they offer an extra chance to share in a company's upside potential — in cases in which the warrant is exercisable at a preset purchase
price that turns out to be less
than the stock's market value.
On Monday,
investors rushed into Treasuries as the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average nosedived more
than 4 percent - reversing a move on Friday when a spike in bond yields, which move inversely to
prices, triggered an equity rout.
«If the geopolitical tension subsides or results in a smaller supply disruption
than currently
priced in, we are likely to see a sharp pull - back in
investor positioning and an even sharper correction in oil
prices than the $ 5 or so that might be warranted even as macro uncertainties persist,» U.S. bank Citi said in a note to
investors.
Since it launched the original offer, Gannett's stock
price (GCI) has lost more
than 50 % of its value, as
investors voted with their feet on the chain's proposed merger.
In a matter of weeks, the land's value jumped from $ 3,500 and $ 6,500 per acre (its listing
prices before the syndicators bought the land in two pieces) to about $ 20,000 an acre (the
price at which the syndicators resold it to their
investors) to more
than $ 200,000 an acre (the claimed easement deduction).
And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare
investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other
than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016
price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»
Prior
investors in our common stock have paid substantially less per share
than the
price per share that you will pay in this offering.
So in the end they all end up with Series A stock
priced at the exact same
price (say, $ 1.5 per share) but
investor 1 & 2 have more stock
than investor 3.
The logic being that the current
investors and founders have more inside knowledge of the company performance and dynamics
than a brand new
investor and thus if the new
investor is going to «pay up» they shouldn't take all of the
pricing risk in the deal.
At this point then yes
price appreciation is secondary bonus and we have an arguement of how and why Real Estate can be better
than Growth Stocks in some scenarios and for some
investors.
In the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009, technology stocks traded at lower
price - to - earnings ratios
than many other types of businesses, such as consumer staples, because
investors were frightened.
The most straightforward way to do the deal and what most people do is to issue the first
investor 4 times more shares
than the ultimate equity
investor to adjust for the 4x discount in
price (ie if I give you 4x the shares it's the same as though you paid 25 % of the
price for the shares).
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country's No 2 lender by assets, on Monday said it raised A$ 2.1 billion ($ 1.55 billion) from institutional
investors at A$ 78 a share, 9 percent higher
than the offer
price.
That made it the best year on Wall Street since 1995, and it would take more
than some short - term declines in stock
prices as
investors convert theoretical profits to the folding - money kind or even the inevitable downward market correction (the bursting of the proverbial bubble) to take the bloom of this particular rose.
Investors have sent shares of Penney down more
than 61 percent from a peak of $ 43 in the days after the
pricing plan was rolled out a year ago.
The currency would then be fairly
priced, the expected volatility very low and unbiased, and
investors would require nothing more
than the risk - free cost of capital (assuming, of course, that expected inflation is positive).
Plunging oil
prices and China's market meltdown have been cited as two big culprits behind market volatility this summer, but history shows less correlation between these markets and U.S. stocks
than many
investors might expect.
Investors are surely excited to hear that more
than 90 percent of Snap Ads were bought programmatically, so the shift to an auction system that hurt ad
prices is largely behind the company now.
The return an
investor receives on his or her share of a home would depend on the home's value change according to its house - specific index rather
than the selling
price of the home.