Sentences with phrase «profit on the stake»

Initially, Buffett made a hefty profit on the stake but the future is murkier, Cohan argues.

Not exact matches

Canadian pre-tax profits were US$ 9.1 million, down from US$ 20.9 million the prior year quarter when it gained US$ 8.1 million from a price adjustment on the sale of its stake in the Montreal Canadiens.

To Deluce — who'd gone on to found Canada 3000 in the late 1980s, and to sell his stake at a tidy profit in 1995 — that airport was a grossly underused asset.

They want a higher valuation, but they have to haggle with venture investors, who want to set a price based on how they can maximize their own profit when they sell their stake.

The company is already a significant lithium producer thanks to its 13.8 % stake in Mt Marion, which generated a profit for Neometals of $ 7.35 million in the half year ending on the 31st of December 2017.

Giving out equity stake to every employee you bring on diminishes your potential profits.

At that time, taking on a bigger stake in Apple seemed like a potential misstep: The company's stock had been swooning amid three straight quarters of profit and revenue declines due to decreases in iPhone sales.

To appear on Shark Tank, entrepreneurs must give Finnmax, the show's production company, either a 2 % royalty on profits or a 5 % equity stake in the company, Amir Kassar, founder and CEO of business loan company MultiFunding, wrote in The New York Times's small - business blog.

Slim planned to hold on to the expanded equity stake after exercising the warrants, rather than sell the shares for an immediate profit, a person with knowledge of the matter said last year.

Walt Disney Co's quarterly profit and revenue on Tuesday beat analysts» estimates fueled by movie studio hits, and the media company said it was taking a stake in a streaming video technology company to sell more content directly to consumers.

Accolade is still 20 per cent owned by New York Stock Exchange - listed Constellation Brands which bought the entire wine business for $ 1.9 billion in 2003 when it was known as BRL Hardy, and then sold down most of its stake in 2011 for a much lower multiple after a sustained slump in profits as the high Australian dollar hit profit margins on exports.

Analysts dismayed at the extent of CCA's profit slide in the last two years are divided over the strategy, which also includes a plan to sell a 30 per cent stake in Indonesia in return for $ 570 million cash to spend on capex and market development.

After adjusting for exceptional items and amortisation reported profit before tax was down 25 % at # 77.8 million, which was chiefly due to the # 50.4 million exceptional gain on the sale of Dairy Crest's stake in joint venture Yoplait Dairy Crest in the previous year.

On Thursday last week, after several hours of closed discussion, Bega's board said it would sell its 18.8 per cent holding in WCB to Saputo, securing a profit of almost $ 100 million and catapulting the Montreal - based company to within reach of a controlling stake.

In this case you continue increasing your stakes while being on a winning streak, risking only a certain percentage of your accumulated profit.

part of that is an owner and board who put their profits way above the performance of the team but it is also a manager who conforms to the wishes of the board (and for all I know may have an ownership stake as well) by putting their short term interests above the long term performance of the team as a result the team itself has become corrupted by the regime through insufficient investment in upgrading the team (all the more damaging as the environment in which the team operates has become increasingly competitive) with ocassional panic acquisitions to meet minimal (but ever diminishing) performance targets to keep fans on board the result is a massively unbalanced team of overpaid compliant players who have been around for too long, inexperienced (and also overpaid) young players who have not cost the club much (or anything) and small islands of quality players..

OT: I think the reason Usmanov keeps lurking around and increasing his stake in the club is because he knows Kroenke will most likely move on shortly after Wenger leaves and because he knows another manager wont bring in profits like Wenger does so is being patient.

«Sampson's representatives made similar calls to other groups that depend on the state for funding.Sampson's sister, Yvette Henriquez, has a 20 % stake in the proposed home care agency, Shining Star Home Care, a for - profit company that is applying to the state Department of Health to operate a «special - needs population» certified home health agency, or CHHA.»

Howie will be addressing the proposed conversion of four schools from public institutions to for - profit charter schools, segregated schools, lack of funding for schools, high stakes testing, Common Core, and the attacks on teachers unions.

HERALD SCOTLAND - Sep 23 - Bill Dobbie, CEO of Easydate, is sitting on a # 10.4 M paper profit on his 32.5 % stake in the company, less than three months after it listed on the stock exchange.

The corporate reform narrative is based on three assertions, 1) that the collective voice of teachers is unwelcome in the discussion of the direction of education, 2) that a single metric — high stakes standardized test scores — can discern effective schooling, and 3) that the marketplace and profit motive are the best way to improve schools.

But if professional authors are going to continue to produce the sort of work publishing houses are willing to stake their reputations on, those authors need a fair share of the profits from their art and labor.

Unless my interest in the company is as a controlling stake then my goal is profit on my investment.

You've missed out on the compound profit you would have made on your original stake and your profits if you had invested more conservatively and made modest gains of perhaps 5 % to 10 % annually.

They may not be as high - stakes as the investment industry's heavyweights, but they make money just the same, and they make you feel good to boot, whether by investing in small firms, channeling profit to micro-credit operations in developing countries, or simply by posting better - than - average returns on cash.

You know that you will sell your stake one day for a profit because you've got your hands on a great company.

In fact, the Monaghan stake is ultimately responsible for my valuation premium to Book: A 15 P / E multiple for this stake may seem aggressive, but it's on what looks like a temporary profit dip, and the implied valuation is undemanding considering their recent EUR 100 mio capex programme.

Borrowing money at the casino is like gambling on steroids: the stakes are high and your potential for profit is dramatically increased.

Klien and Zur define an entrepreneurial shareholder activist as «an investor who buys a large stake in a publicly held corporation with the intention to bring about change and thereby realize a profit on the investment,» which seems quite broad.

- Nintendo is expected to report a 160 % year - on - year increase in group net profit to around 30 billion yen ($ 289 million)- this is partially thanks to the sale of a stake in the Seattle Mariners - profit surge came even as the strong yen led to foreign currency losses of roughly 40 billion yen - the stake was sold for $ 661 million, an amount nearly 10 times what Nintendo originally paid

Meanwhile, in 2016, US activist investor ValueAct Capital secured a place on the company's board after building its stake in the company following profit warnings a year earlier.

Prices fluctuate based on demand, and digital currency holders can sell their stake for a profit.

Owning MON means you will have project stake and receive a share of profits and will have the option to propose and vote on platform - changing decisions.

Another approach is required, such as directing a proportion of catch profits or mining royalties to traditional owners as «resource rental» (in recognition of their traditional property right to the resources being exploited); subsidising the purchase of, or granting without fee, commercial licences; providing an equity stake for traditional owners in development on Indigenous land; granting seed funding for Indigenous enterprises; offering contracting concessions to Indigenous businesses in development projects; and other means of facilitating the exercise of commercial rights that flow from native title rights and interests.

Vornado's consolation prize: A $ 114 million profit on its Sears stake.