Sentences with phrase «rated company because»

We want a policy from a highly rated company because we need to be assured that our survivors will get paid in the event of our premature demise.

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Many people believe that leadership is even more vital for small businesses because small companies can fall apart at a much faster rate without effective leadership.

Oil - and - gas companies will be big winners because they pay the second - highest effective tax rate of any sector, at 37 percent, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

Firstly, because it means higher interest rates — so when companies try to borrow money, that money will become more expensive and as a result they will have less room to give returns to investors.

In coal, many of the largest companies, including Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal Inc., won't benefit from the rate cut because they have large net operating losses, according to Daniel Scott, an analyst at MKM Partners LLC.

That doesn't leave Square a lot of wiggle room if the credit card companies decide to raise interchange fees: «Because we generally charge our sellers a flat rate,» higher swipe fees «could make our pricing look less competitive, lead us to change our pricing model, or adversely affect our margins,» the company said in its prospectus.

Equally, when a company that is burning $ 175,000 / month tells me they're raising $ 10 - 15 million it sets off alarm bells because even if I assume you'll double your burn rate it still implies 2.5 - 3.5 years of cash runway, which is too much for a startup.

While the new law is expected to be a long - term positive for most companies, several announced they would have to take one - time charges because the lower rate reduced the value of their deferred tax assets, which represent taxes already paid.

They are so used to the idea that losing $ 150,000 in burn rate is «fine» because they have a funded company.

Workers at companies with higher levels of openness have higher rates of job satisfaction and are less likely to quit; more women also apply to such firms because they feel less pressure to negotiate.

When the Dish Network looks at Viacom, all it sees is a company whose channels aren't as popular as they used to be, but that is still asking Dish to pay higher rates because the original contract was signed so long ago.

There's an added level of urgency to Viacom's dispute with Dish, because if it agrees to accept lower rates from the satellite company, that could have a ripple effect on the deals it has with other satellite and cable distributors.

On Thursday, Fitch Ratings said it would downgrade Sunac to BB - and put the company on rating watch negative because of its plan to acquire the Wanda assets.

That's mostly because few companies actually pay the top rate; once deductions and various legal dodges are factored in, the effective corporate rate isn't far off 20 percent promised in the legislation.

The ISP was able to find 92 public companies that pay a 20 % tax rate because there are a lot of loopholes in the system that allow them to do so.

The lower response rates have increased costs, because survey companies must contact a larger number of people to get the same number of answers.

Because most states charge out - of - state companies slightly higher rates and fees than they do domestic companies, you may actually end up paying higher taxes than if you had formed a company in your own state.

However, because the corporate tax rates for income below $ 75,000 are lower than the individual tax rates, some experts recommend a C corp for small growing companies that reinvest their profits.

This is because higher rates mean that companies will have higher borrowing costs and, thus, less room to pay dividends to investors.

Donovan says she wasn't worried because the company had not had trouble raising money before; the business was on an $ 11 million run rate, and was burning $ 400,000 a month — «which in San Francisco terms is nothing,» she says.

In 2015, the company's test drivers disengaged — a jargon term that means they had to take manual control of the vehicle because the software failed or for safety reasons — at a rate of 0.8 times per 1,000 miles in California.

That's significant, he says, because historically, when utilization rates exceed 89 % trucking companies have to put more vehicles on the road — about 35,000 for every 1 % above that threshold.

Ambron, the company's CEO, boasts of an 89 percent customer retention rate, because, unlike competitors, he says, customers at BrandYourself move between tiers of service as their needs change.

«We continue to have a sell rating because it's our view that the $ 9 price he's offering was too high for the value of the company,» Modoff said.

The site has a high bounce rate because people using the hacker inbound links expect something else altogether (Louis Vuitton purses), and they get a video production company — so they bounce.

Software companies usually sell at larger p / e ratios because they have much higher growth rates and earn higher returns on equity, while a textile mill, subject to dismal profit margins and low growth prospects, might trade at a much smaller multiple.

Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward - looking statements contained in this release because of a variety of factors, including conditions to, or changes in the timing of, proposed real estate and other transactions, prevailing interest rates and non-recurring charges, store closings, competitive pressures from specialty stores, general merchandise stores, off - price and discount stores, manufacturers» outlets, the Internet, mail - order catalogs and television shopping and general consumer spending levels, including the impact of the availability and level of consumer debt, the effect of weather and other factors identified in documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Even companies that garner lots of eyeballs on the world's biggest video site — and Machinima says it generates billions of views a month — have had a hard time turning that into a profitable business, because ad rates are low and much of the money they do make goes back to YouTube.

Companies are running leaner than ever, and because of that VCs are more willing to invest in companies who don't pride themselves on their bCompanies are running leaner than ever, and because of that VCs are more willing to invest in companies who don't pride themselves on their bcompanies who don't pride themselves on their burn rate.

If they «re rising because there is general confidence that the economic growth will continue and that «s why interest rates are rising because stocks are actually — the return of companies is actually providing a competition for funds, that «s a positive thing.

Small - cap stocks, generally considered to be the best marker of tax cut expectations because usually they pay higher effective tax rates than larger companies, rallied into mid-February.

Both investors and companies tend to adore DRIPs — investors, because they're an easy way of acquiring stock without having to pay any broker's fees (and DRIPs also spare you the temptation of blowing your dividends on sneakers and tasting menus) Companies like offering DRIPs because they can disperse dividends without having to actually use cash, and because of that, many companies will offer stock at a discounted rate to those enrolled companies tend to adore DRIPs — investors, because they're an easy way of acquiring stock without having to pay any broker's fees (and DRIPs also spare you the temptation of blowing your dividends on sneakers and tasting menus) Companies like offering DRIPs because they can disperse dividends without having to actually use cash, and because of that, many companies will offer stock at a discounted rate to those enrolled Companies like offering DRIPs because they can disperse dividends without having to actually use cash, and because of that, many companies will offer stock at a discounted rate to those enrolled companies will offer stock at a discounted rate to those enrolled in DRIPs.

Insurers like structured VAs because these hybrid products require less capital to support than traditional VAs that come with lifetime income guarantees, which some insurance companies have found difficult to honor with interest rates still historically low.

Interest rates can affect stocks because when rates are low, people are more willing to borrow money that they may use to buy products and services, which can help buoy company earnings and stock prices.

But because the category grew at a faster rate than Kraft's sales growth, the company's share declined slightly, a spokesman said.

Because of this, insurance companies slowly raise rates over time.

The small - cap Russell 2000 Index closed at an all - time high Wednesday, presumably because smaller domestic companies have the most to gain from Trump's plan to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent, in effect since 1993, to a much more competitive 15 percent.

† In 2009, Kentucky declined to raise CCA's per diem rate at one facility because the company's prison was twice as violent as its state - run counterpart and because a suicidal employee smuggled in a gun and shot herself in the warden's office.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Charging at that rate is not possible because the result would be arching in the pack, which would surely be akin to the next Boring Company Flamethrower meme when Semi trucks begin to explode in flames during charging as a regular event.

In 2011 and 2012, that change hurt the companies» earnings, largely because interest rates were falling at the time.

A stock's PEG ratio — its price - to - earnings ratio divided by the growth rate of its earnings — often is considered a more complete assessment of a company's current valuation than a P / E ratio because it takes earnings growth into account.

In one case, the top rated heating & air company showed up 12th on a list of search results because they wouldn't pay the $ 12,000 to $ 15,000 required to move up the list.

However, for participants who have large amounts of appreciated company stock, it may be more beneficial to take a lump - sum distribution of company stock instead because it allows them to pay taxes now at a lower rate.

There's been a lot more M&A activity, because interest rates are low and that allows then, these companies to acquire these companies at a relatively low cost and interest wise.

For your friend or neighbor, their decision may have been because the mortgage company had the lowest rate and closing costs.

Companies with excellent to low credit ratings issue investment - grade corporate bonds, which have lower interest rates because of the safety of the investment.

The ratings agencies aren't regulators, and they should not be put into that role, because they are profit - seeking companies.

This is a big problem in many countries because the rates on the peer to peer market (including tellers in this case) are sometimes abusive, and can easily be higher than the fees regular companies such as Western Union and Money Gram charge.

QE is misused true, it should be used to pay down debts more and companies less, and the interest rate should be raised half a percent straight away, maybe more to avoid a long - term bear market soon, but the US Dollar is strong right now because the US economy is fairly productive.