Sentences with phrase «return point for»

Fashion retailer Zara uses thousands of its stores as a convenient pick - up and return point for online orders, but the popularity of «click and collect» led to long lines, prompting a turn to automation.

Not exact matches

At a minimum, we look for a 400 - basis - point annual excess return over the public equity markets.

ANALYSIS: The point of no return may have already been reached for bricks - and - mortar retailers struggling to compete with the online experience.

Since the beginning of 2008, the Russell 3000 growth index outperformed its value counterpart by more than 70 percentage points, returning 10.3 % annually, compared with 7 % for value stocks.

Analyzing in - depth the return on investment from different channels and the outcomes by customer type is a great starting point for optimizing your marketing spending.

While that's a modest return for a high - flying tech stock, at a certain point, Twitter would hit a wall trying to satisfy investors and contain its costs.

Which means researchers now know what to look for so that we don't also miss this vital ice sheet passing the point of no return.

In return for offering $ 40,000 to startups, Start - Up Chile entrepreneurs are required to participate in a social - capital system, where they need to achieve 4,000 points throughout the program.

Pointing to «tens of millions» he and his wife have donated to combat climate change, Druckenmiller says his primary responsibility is to deliver returns for the college endowment and its good works.

«Opening Gilt boutiques in Saks Off Fifth and a place to make returns is a point for differentiation,» Storch said in an interview.

When you exchange points for cash or as a statement credit, generally the best return you can get is one cent for each point applied towards the price of the ticket when you booked it.

In fact, fifty - one percent of global marketing executives point to video over other types of content for best return on investment and marketers who use video grow revenue forty - nine percent faster than non-video users.

From an asset manager's point of view, «we believe that the proper use of sustainability or ESG factors enlarges your view of the company you're investing in, helps you manage risk, and is going to be helpful to you in identifying companies that are going to deliver excess returns for your clients,» says Bertocci.

At one point, Doctor said there were plans to have Patrick Soon - Shiong — a billionaire who invested in Tronc earlier this year in return for a significant stake in the company — acquire the Los Angeles Times and let Gannett acquire the rest of the company, including the Chicago Tribune.

Offering drive - up, express rental return services will be seen as a much more attractive option compared to the hassle of renting bikes in Harrisonburg and transporting them to intended take - off points for rides.

In a press release, Ryanair points to a search for «Ryanair,» which returns an ad from what appears to be the official airline itself.

Small businesses that need to keep a closer eye on return on time investment could set some parameters on how the time is used, or alternatively set up some kind of ranking of pain points that need solving within the business, with an incentive system for coming up with solutions.

Eventually, the member pushing the initiative may settle for a less egregious violation in return for withdrawing the threatened point of order.

Along with all of the other positive points / reasons for this being the right business concept at the exact perfect moment in time, there is a surge in a segment of the population possibly wanting to own / operate one of these stores in the thousands of people who have been offered «buy - outs» in return for retiring early.

Crescent Point says its board of directors has added a drilling rate - of - return metric to its pay - for - performance plan to «incorporate feedback and further align compensation with returns and capital allocation.»

The reason these terms can produce returns by themselves is that they set the stage for a rejiggering of the capitalization table at some point in the future.

«The main idea behind MPT is to use its principles to construct a portfolio that maximizes returns for a certain level of risk...» I would suggest that's the point in all investment strategies.

On this last point, for some institutions, the ON RRP is an imperfect substitute to lending in private unsecured markets because, in the tri-party repo system through which the ON RRP is settled, cash is not returned at maturity until late the next day, whereas in private unsecured markets, earlier return of funds can be negotiated.39

As Russ Koesterich points out, cash typically produces lower returns than stocks or bonds, and once you invest for both inflation and taxes, average long - term rates are negative.

After a return to growth in March, the latest survey pointed to the fastest improvement in incoming new work for almost a year - and - a-half in April.

However, at that point, Western Digital had a return on invested capital (ROIC) of 48 % and had been growing NOPAT by 42 % compounded annually for the past five years.

The 1040 series of federal income tax forms are the starting point for personal federal income tax returns.

Based on 32 major data points, TheStreet Ratings uses a quantitative approach to rating over 4,300 stocks to predict return potential for the next year.

On average, the monthly returns for these periods are 40 basis points less than US returns.

The point of interest here for returning customers is to have tracking pixels, similar to the Nosto code so that the remarketing networks can target customers based on the categories and products that they're interested in and, importantly, stop selling to once they've ordered.

These «failures» he added, which were based off of an overreliance of media agencies to reach each platform, will result in reaching a point of diminishing returns for marketing effectiveness, all of which has added pressure on budgets due to the increase of platforms and of media costs.

The Barron's article pointed this out as well, citing London - based «G+E conomics» head Lena Komileva: «A surplus of investment funds looking for returns in low - yield global markets results in a cap on longer - term yields and a flat yield curve.»

This point is so important that I am again presenting our 10 - year total return projections for the S&P 500 Index (standard methodology).

That's good news for point optimizers — as in those willing to do the work to figure out where their points will offer the best return and to complete the needed transfer.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

There could be more pain in other sectors of the bond market based on credit quality and maturity, but the point is that bonds were never meant to be long - term return enhancers for your portfolio.

At that point, similar to the structure on other platforms, the limited partnership vehicle created for the financing will be liquidated and dissolved and the investor returns distributed.

These pain points differ from those of a seasoned tax preparer, whose pain points may be not knowing how to maximize the amount of their return and find creative loopholes for deductions.

From a Machiavellian point of view, a return to pre-1994 trade rules might not be a bad thing for Canada.

When the sentiment index is more than one standard deviation above (below) its historical average, monthly returns average -0.34 % (+1.18 %) for the value - weighted market and -0.41 % (2.75 %) percentage points for the equal - weighted market.

On that point, it's worth noting that we currently estimate a prospective 10 - year nominal total return for the S&P 500 of just 3.9 % annually.

That undershoot created a point of enormous undervaluation for the market (resulting in projected and actual total returns for the S&P 500 above 15 % annually over the following decade).

The main points here are that QE has encouraged the dramatic overvaluation of virtually every class of investments; that these elevated valuations don't represent «wealth» (which is embodied in the future stream of deliverable cash flows, not in the current price); that extreme valuations promise dismal future outcomes for investors over a 10 - 12 year horizon; and that until a clear improvement in market internals conveys a resumption of speculative risk - seeking by investors, the current combination of extreme valuations and increasing risk - aversion, coming off of an extended top formation after persistent «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» extremes, represents the singularly most negative return / risk classification we identify.

The one - day loss for many funds, including Vanguard Total Bond Market, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond, Pimco Total Return and Metropolitan West Total Return, while less than a half a percentage point, still amounted to more than 10 percent of their current yield.

It searches for situations where a business or an industry are undergoing an inflection point in terms of returns.

At the same time, the Gateway would also serve as an interplanetary bus stop of sorts; a convenient point from which spacecraft bound for Mars could launch and to which they could return.

The annual return drops by average of 240 basis points for the CAD, AUD, GBP and JPY versions.

The welcome offer is enough to pay for her return flight, so she can transfer that and her Chase points into her BA Executive Club account and book flights!

To help illustrate this point, I present the «Investment Opportunity Schedule» in Exhibit 1, which plots the number of investment opportunities against the level of potential return for each opportunity.

If we allow a slightly faster reversion to historically normal valuations at any point before 2023, the 16 - year projection of 4.94 % would represent 8 years at X % followed by 8 years at 10 %, implying an 8 - year projected total return for the S&P 500 of nothing at all.