Sentences with phrase «returned significant capital»

While there are exceptions to this rule, chances are such anomalous funding only happens with serial entrepreneurs who have already returned significant capital to their earlier investors or very experienced founding teams that can hit the ground running in a particular industry very quickly.

Not exact matches

Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

For instance, for venture capital, where there is a significant risk that the technology will be worthless and the company may never develop, the expected return needs to be higher.

The National Venture Capital Association estimates that only 20 percent (or less) of venture - backed companies produce a significant return, 40 percent achieve moderate success and the rest fail.

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

Analysts excited about the company's exposure to the rapidly growing natural gas sector were pumping up the stock, ignoring its low and declining return on invested capital (ROIC), significant write - downs indicating poor capital allocation, and the high expectations implied by its stock price.

A couple years back, I wrote a series on the topic of returns on capital (ROIC) and how significant its impact is on the long - term value of a business.

In addition to significant investment activity, Nehal has successfully exited several investments with impressive returns on invested capital.

Not in the manner of Ponzi schemes, but by the even more devilish leaky faucet in which a significant portion of the returns of the capital markets are diverted away from Main Street investors and into the arms of Wall Street and the insurance companies.

Sam, while I agree with your general comment that the capital returns on larger dividend stocks are likely not as significant as growth stocks, an investor can easily make a total return of 10 % plus consistently by buying these stocks steadily overtime with minimal stress.

Venture capital investors are most interested in a business that offers them an opportunity for a significant return and they will see past opportunities that smack of the «flavour of the month» or attempts to «green - wash» a business (that is, the practice of trying to quantify and emphasize a plan's minor environmental angle).

Madison's investments provide an attractive return profile with limited downside risk, significant upside potential, credit rated cash flow, and medium and long term capital appreciation.

Additionally, Canadian companies need to be able to attract top - tier venture capital that generates significant returns through exits.

Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.

Adding back write - downs increases invested capital, therefore, companies with significant accumulated write - downs will have a meaningfully lower return on invested capital (ROIC) after we make this adjustment.

In fact, the business probably would be growing even without that additional capital, and the nature of Facebook, Microsoft, and Google's main businesses are that they produce huge returns on capital, significant cash flow, and require little to no capex.

The types of high - risk high - return investments that the traditional Venture Capital funds have to make also result in significant early capital Capital funds have to make also result in significant early capital capital losses.

Amjad Ahmad, Senior Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investments at NBK Capital commented, «We will continue to focus on middle market private equity investments where we believe there are significant opportunities to drive value and returns.

This will tend to understate the performance of the taxable account in circumstances where long - term capital gains and qualified dividends, which are currently taxed at lower rates than ordinary income, are a component of investment returns, as is the case for investments with significant equity holdings.

Since the industry consolidated and management incentives changed to being based on returns on capital rather than growth, capacity (supply) growth has tracked GDP (demand) growth closely, free cash flow generation has been significant and consistent, and the companies have consistently paid down debt, bought back stock and paid dividends.

Venture capital involves investment in companies in order to provide a significant return to investors.

Capital that the company has no use for does not make a significant positive return on investment, as you pointed out, yes the company could accrue interest, but that is not going to make the company large sums of cash.

Depending on which method you choose, options trading can be used to hedge a portfolio, create yield or gain significant market exposure and returns with little capital risk.

If you've held these funds in your account for a full three years, they would show a significant capital loss — and yet their total return over that period was actually quite good:

In 2010, both CRQ and CLU also distributed significant capital gains that would have lowered returns for investors holding these funds in a taxable account.

We are disappointed that Avigen did not offer downside protection sooner so that the significant capital consumed during this proxy contest could have been returned to stockholders months ago.

This has a significant negative effect on both capital base for Superannuation and Superannuation returns.

But I am very pleased with the income potential — a 2.2 % return compares favorably to current 10 year treasury yields of about 2.7 %, considering that treasuries have no real capital gain potential, which could be significant over a 10 year period in the index stock funds.

As the above example demonstrates, tax - deferred exchanges allow investors to defer capital gain taxes as well as facilitate significant portfolio growth and increased return on investment.

This asset mix may be appropriate for investors with a significant tolerance for fluctuations in market value, and who seek to emphasize dividend and interest income (in addition to capital appreciation) as a component of total return.

Therefore, for companies with a significant retail shareholder base, forming B shares may be the best way to return excess capital to stockholders.

If we hope to see the present value gap eliminated, and Argo's intrinsic value increased, we need to see: i) a significant level of (new) fund - raising, ii) a return of surplus capital to shareholders (via a value - enhancing share tender / buyback), or iii)(ideally) both!

We may have an answer sooner than expected — look at this snippet from the recent interims: `... if as expected shareholders approve the proposed return of capital this will result in further significant change.

That balance sheet also gives significant support to continued capital returns... assuming their products continue to appeal to customers.

In a recent post (See Vanguard Canada initial ETF offering falling short), PWL Capital's Justin Bender took a look at the risk and return characteristics of two balanced portfolios with significant foreign stock holdings.

We think that the view that broad equity returns are limited to around 3 % going forward based on an expected low GDP growth plus dividend yield misses the importance of retained earnings and its significant capital compounding benefit.

While some notable nonprofits have added considerable value to their total portfolio returns by building out a private equity program, ² many institutions underestimate the significant human - capital effort required to do so.

The law of diminishing returns plays a part; a certain amount of invested capital will drive significant growth, while further capital will not be as effective.

Jason Chong, chief executive, Cornerstone Partners Group, added: «Taiwan reflects the holistic integration of cultural diversity, with continuous growth in recent years that has attracted significant foreign capital to return to the Taiwanese market.

For a set rate of return, an outside investor injects significant capital to fund the larger construction costs.

In the event of a significant deterioration in the security environment, you may have to temporarily move employees from a particularly volatile region into a capital city or neighbouring region, returning only when the situation stabilises.

Irving was driven by a clear understanding that investing early in human capital development would result in significant returns on public and private investments and, therefore, result in the greatest benefit to our society.

Commercial real estate has posted three - and - a-half years of robust total returns, attracting significant inflows of investment capital.

Making use of these Capital Allowances can result in significant tax savings, and therefore increased return on investment.

Since 2013, Realogy has generated significant free cash flow, allowing the company to successfully deleverage its balance sheet and to return more than $ 1 billion of capital to its shareholders.