Sentences with phrase «price than the industry»

Sometimes there may be an opportunity for a business to offer something that's smaller or lower in quality for a lesser price than the industry standard.

Not exact matches

«With affordable pricing, industry - specialized systems and access to the basic salesforce automation systems that are required for businesses to operate today, CRM is more attractive and available to SMBs than ever before,» Friedenthal says.

DENVER — Western Colorado has 40 times more natural gas than previously thought, but an immediate boom is unlikely because of low gas prices, government and industry experts said Wednesday.

And its current debt - to - Ebitda ratio of 2.6, below the industry average, suggests that it has more flexibility to withstand sustained low prices than many of its competitors.

So, while low oil prices will make this a trying quarter for the entire energy industry, companies with a more balanced portfolio of assets should fare better than the pure - plays.

In less than three years, and with just 24 products that range in price from $ 12 to $ 35, the startup has become one of the industry's biggest disruptors.

They applied a methodology designed to capture the income - boosting effects of shifting inputs to industries where prices are rising, and they obtained productivity estimates that are much less alarming than those produced by Statistics Canada.

Disruptive innovation: In an industry ruled by low prices, proved that the segment of U.S. consumers prepared to pay more for local, responsible, organic, fresh, or natural grocery products is much more than a niche when there's a perceived personal benefit.

Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

The carrier has added more new phone customers than the rest of the industry combined while its stock price has nearly quadrupled.

Analyses of steel tariffs imposed by Bush found they created fewer jobs in steel production than they destroyed through higher prices for steel - consuming industries.

In that industry, the analysts expect Terex and Oshkosh to have less pricing power than Caterpillar and Deere.

At today's prices, industry forecasts of three million barrels per day by 2020 are likely to underestimate production by a bit, but the real kicker will be on the value of that production to all concerned — governments, via taxes and royalties, and shareholders will all suffer much lower returns from this development than they would have expected less than a year ago if prices stay where they are today.

It pumped in more than $ 200 billion dollars to support stock prices, suspended all initial public offerings, and arrested more than a dozen executives in the financial industry on charges of «malicious manipulation of the market.»

However, post - 9/11, the dynamics began to shift and ticket prices rose faster than the rate of inflation as demand for the seats increased and the industry was reorganized.

Although their services are superior and more innovative than many of the personal job search services offered in the industry, they are offering their programs at two different economical price points well below market average.

Trump's move bore out a warning from Allergan CEO Brent Saunders late last year, as many in the industry assumed that the newly elected president would be kinder to pharma than his opponent Hillary Clinton, who'd laid out several proposals for controlling drug prices.

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«Simplification, standardization and deflation are repositioning the oil industry for better profitability and cash generation in the current environment than in 2013 - 14 when the oil price was above $ 100 a barrel,» Goldman Sachs analysts said in a research note on Wednesday, as quoted by Bloomberg.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

Lawson insisted that «you can no more make a State industry imitate private enterprise by telling it to follow textbook rules or to stimulate competitive prices, than you can make a mule into a zebra by painting stripes on its back.

Rather than the income boost going solely to the resource industry, lower import prices raised the real incomes of all Australians.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

In the past decade, the US had been ramping up the use of targeted tariffs to help protect the US steel industry from unfair trading practices, which include selling steel in the United States at a cheaper price than the price the exporting country sells it elsewhere (this is called «dumping»).

Contracting officers may set aside contracts in these industries if the contract can be awarded at a fair and reasonable price, the contracting officer has a reasonable expectation that two or more WOSBs or EDWOSBs will submit offers for the contract and the anticipated contract price is not greater than $ 5 million for manufacturing contracts and $ 3 million for other contracts.

But rather than idly criticizing the financial industry's options pricing methods, «we put our money where our mouth was by entering into our equity put contracts,» Buffett writes.

While most industry pundits continue to believe that the OPEC cuts / shale growth tug - of - war will continue to cap oil prices, the current mood in the market is a bit merrier than it was two years ago, one year ago, or even one month ago.

Over the past several months the industry has been wrestling with oil prices that have cratered by more than 50 % since peaking last June.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

With more than 40 years of experience in resource investment, and an insiders view of the mining industry, Rick Rule is in a great position to see the market currents that could lead to much higher prices for raw materials going forward.

Their latest comments highlight the industry's remarkable resilience, but also serve as a warning to rivals and traders: a retreat in U.S. oil production that would help ease global oversupply and let prices recover may prove shorter than some may have expected.

While these factors are definitely favorable, the growing share of the shale industry means that output is much more flexible than it has ever been, and prices will likely be capped thanks to that.

If there is no impediment to new supply of what you sell competition among suppliers will cause price to drop to a point where there is no long term industry profit greater than the cost of capital.

A study issued by CIBC World Markets in March suggested that a system of carbon tariffs, combined with oil prices more than $ 100 a barrel, «could reverse the migration of certain manufacturing industries that have left North America for much cheaper labour markets in China.»

Competition between restaurants will tend to cause retail prices to drop to a point where there is no long term industry profit greater than the cost of capital, despite the drop in wholesale food costs.

I time the market in the sense that when I find a commodity where the selling price is less than the cost of production, in other words, an industry that's in liquidation, I know that either the material becomes unavailable or the price goes up and the longer the situation lasts, the more dramatic the response will be.

Crude oil prices have dropped more than 50 per cent since June to around US$ 50 per barrel, causing some analysts to predict doom and gloom for Canada's oil and gas industry and economy as a whole.

Dan Caplinger: One surprising area that has been extremely lucrative for long - term investors is the auto - parts industry, and, among its major players, AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) has scored impressive returns over the past decade, seeing its stock price rise from less than $ 100 to almost $ 700 over that time span.

The U.S. argues most Canadian wood is harvested from Crown lands and is sold for less than market prices as a way to subsidize the industry and make Canadian wood more attractive compared to American domestic products — a charge Canada denies.

Since the industry is full of young, high - priced start - ups, it doesn't tend to lend itself to dividend payouts as these companies would rather invest in their own growth than reward investors with a dividend.

After bottoming out at decade - plus lows in February, oil prices finished the year up more than 40 %, lifting the prospects for a lot of companies across the oil and gas industry.

Even as gold prices fell for the first time in 14 years in 2013, BMO Capital Markets of Montreal, Canada, advised its clients in the metals and mining industry on 17 deals worth a total of $ 6.4 billion in North America — a higher value than any other bank.

I have priced around and found it to be less expensive than most programs for the industry.

Nickel prices have been especially strong, rising by more than 70 per cent in SDR terms over the past 12 months and by nearly 170 per cent since their trough in late 2001, largely in response to robust demand from China's expanding stainless - steel industry.

By carrying a few big brands in his portfolio, having more than 2 decades of tech industry experience and nurturing startups for more than two years in current capacity, Mukund Mohan needs no introduction and for the startups industry, he is a priced asset.

If the media industry, in particular, continues the current race to the bottom on price, rather than focusing on business value, it will forever be a commodity.

And when creditors turned their economic gains from this process into political power to shift the tax burden onto wage earners and industry, this raised the cost of living and doing business — by more than technology was able to lower prices.

Cost pressures are also evident in a number of service industries, with the price of education, and some recreational and personal services having risen by around 4 per cent over the year, while the price of health services has increased at more than double this pace.

By focusing on an industry or group of industries, the fund carries much greater risk of adverse developments and price movements in such industries than a fund that invests in a wider variety of industries.