Investing in
profitable companies at any cost runs the risk of overpaying for expected future profits.
So only looking at those historic numbers, Fossil looks like a high growth, capital light and highly
profitable company at a bargain price.
Not exact matches
CB «s writers also take you behind the scenes of Canada's most -
profitable companies, to get an inside look
at how a corporation becomes the best
at what they do.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into
profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or
at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the
Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
Months of deliberations behind closed doors
at Shell headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, had led the top brass
at the world's largest non-state-owned oil
company by sales to conclude that the energy industry was changing fundamentally — in a way that could turn the
profitable oil - sands operation into a liability.
A jump in yields would also raise the threshold
at which new investments become
profitable, forcing
companies to retrench.
After allegations of phone hacking, fraud and general nastiness surfaced
at its highly -
profitable News of the World newspaper, the
company decided that the best way to starve the scandal of oxygen was to shutter the 168 - year - old muckraking juggernaut.
Opened as an experiment in 1912 near the
company's most
profitable location in Jersey City, N.J., the first A&P economy store was operated by a single man, who moved big volumes
at warehouse prices.
Although the largest 10 stocks
at any given time are usually heavyweights in the business earnings department, they're rarely the 10 most
profitable companies.
At the close of their 2000 fiscal years, the
companies on this year's list were still overwhelmingly
profitable, still growing, and still hiring.
Founder and CEO Phil Roberts spent the early part of his career
at Arco Petroleum Products, converting the
company's standalone gas stations in California into highly
profitable convenience stores.
Harford will have to help figure out how to turn Uber into a
profitable business, or
at least stymie the
company's losses.
As I've argued before, self - awareness is also the meta - skill of the 21st century: Among other benefits, self - aware people are happier with their careers and relationships, are better students, perform better
at work and run more
profitable companies.
So far, no one is nipping
at the
company's heels, which explains why Bouchard can boast that his firm has posted an average compound annual growth rate of 41 % over the past six years, and has been
profitable since the beginning.
Whereas
at the time they were once an obscure brand, Uber is now a rather popular and
profitable company, thanks in part to its persistent pursuit of partnerships.
His biggest victory this year may have come
at the end of October, when Tesla announced that it had its second
profitable quarter in the
company's history, shocking analysts who thought that the
company would be reporting yet another loss.
But it's more
profitable — and just right — to instill honorable conduct
at every level of your
company
Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm is a «brilliant move» that will make the
company a lot more
profitable, says Edward Snyder, analyst
at Charter Equity Research.
In a little less than two years, Halo Top's relentless sales growth has afforded the founders something most entrepreneurs only dream of: They run a
profitable company,
at scale.
Speaking
at an event in front of thousands of people can be exciting and lead to more opportunity but speaking
at a
company can be more
profitable.
A lawyer by trade, Schriver initially intended to make a «career pit stop in 2000,
at the small, but
profitable language
company, but I soon realized the potential,» he says.
Señor Paleta, founded in 2014, has grown from a tiny operation selling
at festivals and private events into a
profitable company, surrounded by new and exciting businesses springing up in the area's century - old buildings.
The majority of executives
at the conference explained how robots are here to rescue us from manual labor and will help to make our
companies leaner, more
profitable, more consistent, and more competitive.
WHO: Scott Davis, managing partner
at Prophet, an international branding consultancy based in San Francisco, and author of Brand Asset Management: Driving
Profitable Growth Through Your Brands RATING: 5 «First off, most
companies would die to be able to start with a brand as powerful as Dr. Spock.
Jamie Baker, an analyst
at J.P. Morgan, points out in an April 23 report that in Q1 the
company posted a $ 7 million profit, the first time it's had a
profitable first quarter since 2000.
By 1997, the chain's same - store revenues were expanding
at a double - digit clip, reaching more than $ 3 million that year, although Riviera acknowledges that the
company wasn't
profitable.
«If your
company is
profitable, dividends can pass directly to the child, to be taxed
at his or her rate, without incurring any payroll taxes,» Whitlock says.
That allowed the
company to concentrate on what it had — for numerous decades
at least — done very well: writing steady, highly
profitable policies for America's storefront bakeries, dentists» offices, and other businesses.
Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said
at a conference in New York in November that the
company's Asia operations were not going to be «
profitable any time soon,» particularly because of how heavily Uber was subsidizing rides there.
Prior to PayPal, Rainey led the most
profitable era in the
company's history, as executive vice president and CFO
at United Airlines.
Specifically, in an already crowded marketplace of ride - hail
companies, how do you make a shared network of self - driving Teslas
profitable or
at least worth pursuing?
The 800 - person
company — valued
at more than $ 1 billion roughly a year ago — is also
profitable.
Fairchild Semiconductor became the progenitor of a flood of Silicon Valley chip
companies and
at the same time the adoption of the limited partnership as the model for Venture Firms gave VC's their own
profitable business model.
It could be a self funded
company which grows
at a slow and steady rate and is
profitable.
In other words, for the most part, the big five tech
companies exist
at their current size and scale only because they serve a larger underlying economy of
profitable companies.
CEO Meg Whitman alleged that executives
at Autonomy used various accounting tricks to make the British software
company appear more
profitable.
In the next 7 years I've grown a bunch of blogs in different niches, worked
at a few
companies and launched a couple
profitable online businesses.
In fact, certain portfolio
companies that generate significant revenue may not be
profitable at all.
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At Silversmith, we have the privilege of working with founders and management teams of growing,
profitable companies in support of their ambitions plans.
Researchers have found that in many, though perhaps not all, cases when corporate directors are «overboarded» — and thus presumably unable to devote their full attention to governance
at particular
companies —
companies are less
profitable and have a lower market to book ratio.
«Bill was the one who pushed hard for my
company, Net Gravity, to be
profitable at the height of the dot - com boom» in the late 1990s, said Thuan Pham, a tech entrepreneur who joined Uber in 2013 and is now chief technology officer.
A lot of it may also be that people are still treating this as a highly indebted, risky, poorly operated, and marginally
profitable company that it is without looking deeper
at the assets that it will still hold after receiving the $ 1.7 billion from Itochu, and how new Dole will now be a much healthier and less risky
company
Asked whether Buffett is making a mistake by getting involved in a processed food
company at a time when Americans are shifting to smaller, more nutritional brands, Howard noted that 3G's cost - saving structure has allowed Heinz to become more
profitable, despite the fact that it's frozen foods business is shrinking.
The
Company anticipates to continue
profitable growth in the future and aims
at a medium - term revenue increase in the mid-single digit percentage range.
At the same time, the TLTRO facility will potentially enable them to make very
profitable loans to precisely those
companies in regions that need it the most.
Over the years he has built and led numerous successful and
profitable businesses
at Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and their predecessor
companies.
Leat has completed some of the largest acquisition financings and built numerous
profitable businesses
at Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and their predecessor
companies.
It just goes to show that even if the oil price is in the doldrums, there are oil related
companies that are
profitable at current levels that keep sending you a chunk of the profits.
In investing, a defensible position is a strong, well - managed, highly
profitable company with a pristine balance sheet and very little debt, and a stock price that trades
at reasonable (or discount) valuations.
They then restructure the
company in ways that make it
at least appear more
profitable.