Sentences with phrase «return than shareholders»

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They expressed a strong bias toward revenue growth over cost reduction (64 % vs. 18 %), and an equally strong bias toward investing cash rather than returning it to shareholders (57 % to 14 %).

(Since he took the reins, Aetna (aet) has returned a cumulative 541 % to its shareholders, or more than three times the total return for the S&P 500.)

Since 2012, when the company launched the largest share repurchase program ever, Apple has returned a little more than $ 100 billion to shareholders in stock buybacks and dividends.

Buying back stock is, for example, Warren Buffett's preferred way of returning cash to shareholders (rather than paying a dividend).

Buffett is right that, for most of his stock - picking history, shareholders have likely been better off leaving their money in his care rather than siphoning the cash into their own accounts by way of dividends: Since 1965, Berkshire Hathaway stock has delivered annualized returns of nearly 21 %, more than double the S&P 500.

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.

Iger's continuation as chief executive is imperative in light of the planned Fox acquisition, Lewis said, noting that total shareholder return has more than quadrupled over Iger's tenure.

«During the quarter, we returned more than $ 3 billion in capital to common shareholders which helped drive a significant improvement in earnings per share.»

Kelly received a raise of only 25 % in 2014, based on figures provided to Fortune by Equilar, despite delivering a total stockholder return of more than 126 % to shareholders.

Its argument now is that breaking up EMC would provide shareholders more return — that the piece parts are worth more separately than they are as part of a semi-unified whole.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

Apple is returning more cash to shareholders than any company ever, the Financial Times's Robin Wigglesworth wrote on Tuesday.

In 1982, using interviews and proxy statements, they examined compensation programs at 90 major U.S. companies to determine whether return to shareholders was better for corporations that had incentive plans for top executives than it was for those companies that had no such plans.

Control asset companies produce more volatile returns for their shareholders than do investment companies not employing debt financing.

Overall, cash returned to shareholders is much lower today — even with the recent surge instigated by activist campaigns — than in decades past when the economy enjoyed much more robust growth.

Throw in the most recent year's $ 365 billion in dividends, and the total amount returned to shareholders reaches $ 885 billion, more than the companies» combined net income of $ 847 billion.

A shareholder proposal by Carl Icahn of a non-binding advisory resolution that the Company commit to completing not less than $ 50 billion of share repurchases during its 2014 fiscal year (and increase the authorization under its capital return program accordingly)(Proposal No. 10); and

«RESOLVED, that the shareholders hereby approve, on an advisory basis, High River's proposal that Apple commit to completing not less than $ 50 billion of share repurchases during Apple's fiscal year ending September 27, 2014 (and increase the amount authorized for share repurchases under its Capital Return Program accordingly).»

Therefore, other than a drop in oil prices, the only way they'll cut back is if shareholders demand that they do by turning up the heat on capital returns.

At 44.4 %, however, less than half of the company's earnings are being returned to shareholders via a dividend, providing plenty of room for more increases going forward.

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs, pronounced «reets»), which invest in and manage commercial real estate such as office buildings, shopping malls and apartment buildings and distribute most of their income to shareholders, have risk - return characteristics different than those of stocks and bonds and thus provide valuable diversification benefits in a portfolio.

FTI said the EziBuy proposal would deliver the best overall return to creditors and had less execution risk than the Cheadle DOCA, which is backed by SurfStitch's management team, led by Justin Hillberg, SurfStitch co-founder and creditor Lex Pedersen and other large shareholders.

Apple Inc,, Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are bigger and return much more cash to shareholders now than they did during the go - go days.

In percentage, this makes 72 % companies outperforming the market and 39 % of them have returned more than double the market performance to their shareholders.

While Santos, the Australian energy pioneer since 1954, has not paid any STI or LTI to its executives in 2015, Woodside felt confident enough to pay out 82 % of STIs and more than half of LTIs to its managing director, despite negative shareholder return during the year.

We know that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway hasn't paid a dividend in more than 30 years because Buffett feels that the return on capital that he generates by retaining those earnings will create eventual share price appreciation value for the shareholder that will exceed the share price / dividend capital appreciation that his shareholders would receive.

While studies show that mergers and acquisitions as a group are value neutral or negative for shareholders (on average the selling company gets all the excess returns), The Outsiders explored how some management teams focused on driving shareholder value with their M&A rather than simply using it as a mechanism to get bigger, have shown extraordinary success.

U.S. companies have been more generous than ever in returning excess cash to shareholders via dividends.

The closest to this type of holding in our portfolio is Pepsi (PEP), which over the last three years has returned more than 90 % of its net income to shareholders in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

Stronger iPhone prices and hints by Apple Inc on Thursday that it could return more than half of its $ 285 billion in cash to shareholders eased concerns among investors, even as the world's biggest technology company gave a disappointing revenue outlook for the current quarter.

In a rate environment we think of as normal (interest rates slightly higher than inflation), we believe these companies can earn 10 % on equity and if they don't have organic growth opportunities, can return all of it to shareholders.

Since 2006, more than every dollar generated in free cash flow has been returned to shareholders.

The finding appears to extend to the macroeconomic level as well — shareholders in the larger economy got a much bigger bang for their buck when cash was returned to them as dividends than when it was deployed into capital expenditure.

To be explicit on this: when the earnings yield (the inverse of a P / E ratio) is higher than the return on cash, it is beneficial to shareholders in increasing EPS.

RGC Resources has not efficiently used shareholders» funds last year (Return on Equity less than 20 %).

Most of those companies have more near - term ability to return capital to shareholders through dividends and share repurchase than financial stocks do.

Although Graham might not have, I would exempt FB from Graham's third requirement for dividends, as I believe Facebook's return on investing moneyin their own business is higher than the return a shareholder would find with dividends.

But the interesting thing is that in the eyes of many investors, Apple's quarterly iPhone sales numbers seem to matter less now than they have for years — at least relative to how much cash Apple is generating and returning to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks.

Moreover, many advisers said that executives now feared that spending money on a deal rather than returning it to shareholders would invite activist scrutiny.

ASX - listed Treasury Wine Estates, the owner of Penfolds and Wolf Blass, has been a winner for shareholders in the past two years with its share price more than doubling because of booming exports to Asia and rising returns from the United States.

For Mr Clarke to obtain 100 per cent of the performance rights, TWE's relative total shareholder return ranking against the peer group must be above the 75th percentile, and the compound annual growth rate of earnings per share over the performance period must be more than 15 per cent.

That means unit holders and shareholders are likely to receive more than the estimated 75 cents return on investment indicated by MG based on the Saputo deal.

Unwilling to make the same mistakes as his predecessors, who raised prices to boost margins and shareholder returns, chief executive Brad Banducci has made it clear Woolworths will continue to invest «materially» to underpin sustainable growth in supermarkets after decimating profits by sinking more than $ 1 billion into prices and service in 2016 and 2017.

They argue that investment managers should exercise duties of stewardship, rather than maximising short - term returns; companies should serve the interests of a wider group of stakeholders, not only shareholders; successful businesses are rooted in their communities, acknowledging wider social obligations.

This is partly due to incentives for international oil companies to return dividends to shareholders rather than reinvest them.

Forbes reports a 6 % higher net profit margin for companies with an engaged workforce, and a five times higher shareholder return over five years than companies without an engaged workforce.

Corporations can use duty to shareholders to justify making charitable donations (PR value), withholding charitable donations (damage to bottom line), keeping bad employees (avoiding litigation risk), firing bad employees (avoiding employee error risk), focusing on long - term gains (building sustainable profits), focusing on short - term gains (returning the best quarter than can be had), selling spyware to the Chinese politburo (profits), withholding spyware from the Chines politburo (avoiding regulatory intervention), and so on.

A dividend stock that shows virtually no growth (think utilities) and returns close to 100 % of its cash flows to shareholders is more like a bond than a growth stock.

Assuming the company decides not to pay a dividend to the shareholders (so the shareholders can reinvest the money themselves), financial managers within Pfizer must identify new projects that offer a higher rate of return than what they could get if they simply invested the money in the financial market (this being the opportunity cost of capital).

We've been following AVGN (see earlier posts here and here) because it's a net cash stock (i.e. it's trading at less than the value of its cash after deducting all liabilities) and it has a specialist biotechnology activist fund Biotechnology Value Fund (BVF) pushing it to liquidate and return its cash to shareholders.