Sentences with phrase «sale to investors in»

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In hot markets like Toronto, recent studies suggest that more than half of unit sales go to investors — both foreign and domestic.

«Revised guidance implies sales «fell off the cliff» in January,» he said in a note to clients, adding that while many investors credit former CEO Christine Day with Lululemon's success, she has done a poor job of setting up her successor.

Strong vehicle sales data helped U.S. indexes gain momentum throughout the day while investors weighed President Barack Obama's effort to win support in Congress for a military strike on Syria.

The sportswear giant updated investors on Wednesday on its plans to hit $ 50 billion in sales by 2020, a target that has been met with some Wall Street skepticism.

Activist investor Jana Partners has accumulated an 8.8 percent stake in Whole Foods and wants the organic market to explore a possible sale, according to a Monday regulatory filing.

Activist investors, who now manage some $ 174 billion in assets, have exploded onto the scene, shaking up boards and pushing for share repurchases, company breakups, or outright sales in order to get stock prices higher.

Reports indicate that the new investors will have control over some salary and hiring decisions, as well as the ability to block any eventual sale of Gawker Media if a price tag comes in lower than $ 100 million.

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It now plans to seek shareholder approval for the sale on May 23 and appoint advisers, it said in a notice to investors.

The sale is seen as a way to ease the worries of investors and pave the way for an IPO in 2019.

Investors will have their eyes on new economic data expected to show that single - family home sales increased by 3.1 % in February after a big drop in January.

The 2018 sales forecast compares with the Stockholm - based company's long - term target for revenue to grow between 25 and 35 percent, which it spelled out for investors earlier in March.

Apple's stock dipped at the start of 2016 due to concerns over a slowdown in iPhone sales, though share prices have since rebounded into positive territory for the year amid investor optimism for the company's new line of products.

After months of declines in Apple «s stock, sentiment appears to be mending as investors focus on steady earnings expectations and bet that the expected launch of a new iPhone will add badly - needed fuel to sputtering sales.

Now, with a majority interest in Skype slated to be sold to a collection of private investors, they're using their stake in Joltid to try to block the sale and recover millions of dollars in what they say are lost profits.

When investors see an entrepreneur who has made a limited investment in their business, yet they're paying themselves $ 200,000 a year — not on sales revenue, but investor capital — we're strongly inclined to pass on the deal.

He's found investors to back him and customers who are indifferent toward, or even admiring of, his eccentricities — American Apparel racked up US$ 558.8 million in sales last year, up from 2008.

Over the past decade, the number of two - year - old - in - training sales has risen, Wagner notes, a symptom of racehorse investors» looking for a quick route to the winner's circle.

Better yet for the company, advertising sales were a «strong contributor» to Amazon much bigger - than - expected profit in the first quarter, said Brian Olsofsky, Amazon's chief financial officer, on a conference call with investors on Thursday.

«Advanced Warfare,» he said in a note to investors, posted sales growth of 212 percent on so - called next - gen platforms (the Xbox One and PlayStation 4).

While O'Leary emphasized in his sales pitches that he, too, was an investor, the filing notes his personal stake in the funds transferred to Canoe amounted to less than 1.2 per cent.

As you daydream about acquiring your first thousand customers, sealing your first million dollars in sales, or securing a healthy round of investments from cash - rich investors, it's very easy to get carried away, and understandably so.

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As for Schlumberger, investors appear jittery about the stock, in part because the world's supplier of oilfield equipment has less exposure to the lucrative shale market ---- the biggest near - term driver for sales ---- than competitors.

Bharti Airtel separately said it plans to engage with potential investors to evaluate a stake sale in the combined mobile masts entity, which will have an equity value of 965 billion rupees ($ 14.5 billion), sending the carrier's stock up as much as 5.2 percent.

EBay announced on Nov. 19 that it had finally completed the sale of a majority stake in Skype Technologies to a group of investors, including the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Rather than using the new data to push investors to buy stock, Wieser recommends caution because he believes that the we're approaching the saturation point when increases in digital ad budgets won't lead to increased sales.

Aside from falling affiliate and ad sales, Viacom investors also fretted on Thursday about a snag in the company's Chinese movie financing deal, which executives disclosed on the call, noting that Chinese studio Huahua Media delayed a payment to the company in June.

Good investors can help steer the company in the right direction, providing useful guidance and opening doors to new partnerships or sales opportunities.

IOWA CITY, Iowa, April 24 - Wells Fargo & Co executives planned to convey a message of atonement to shareholders at the bank's annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday as it works to convince investors and regulators a sweeping sales scandal is a thing of the past.

The best deals, according to Breen, will include a memorandum that discloses all of the risks involved in the «private placement,» a type of non-public sale of securities available to a limited number of investors.

Game software sales, however, have failed to keep pace, which has startled investors in the sector.

The Fix Crowdfunding Act, sponsored by Rep. Patrick McHenry, (R. - North Carolina), and introduced into Congress in March, seeks to raise limits on the money companies can raise, let companies test investor interest prior to a sale, and create a better vetting process for businesses that want to sell shares.

At the height of the dotcom boom, although I had grown my company, Palo Alto Software, to more than $ 5 million in annual sales without outside investors, I partnered with a Silicon Valley venture capital firm to build it faster.

Once the sale to a group of investors that includes investment firm Silver Lake is finalized, Dell's stock will stop trading on the Nasdaq nearly 25 years after the Round Rock, Texas, company raised $ 30 million in an initial public offering of stock.

Investors in Puerto Rico's bonds argued in court Tuesday over which group has a claim on sales - tax revenue that could be used to recoup their money.

Many investors worry that Gilead can't hope to replicate 2014's breakneck pace of revenue growth (driven largely by Sovaldi, which racked up $ 2 billion in sales in its first three months, making it the fastest - selling drug in history).

Pandora has been urged to explore a sale by Corvex Management LP, a hedge fund run by Keith Meister, a protégé of activist investor Carl Icahn, after it disclosed a 9.9 percent stake in Pandora in May.

Sales for Amazon's (amzn) cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services, or AWS, have grown dramatically in the last few years and investors love the diversification it brings to Amazon's top line.

The CSA added that companies planning to engage in an ICO could stay onside of securities law by creating a prospectus and by limiting the sale to accredited investors.

Founders can lobby for higher compensation and options in lieu of equity stakes; investors can fight for preferred dividends and treatment of their shares when it comes to another round of funding or a sale.

The activist investor Jana Partners took a 9 % stake in Whole Foods in April and pushed the company to look into strategic options including a sale.

Investors are betting that Tesla can expand sales from a projected 21,000 this year to well over 100,000 in three to four years when the company rolls out a lower - priced third - generation car.

As part of the new TCJA, access to favorable capital gains tax rates now demands a three - year holding period; previously, an investor needed only to maintain his or her position in the startup for 12 months to qualify for a lower rate on an eventual sale.

The challenge is that in order to land an initial and subsequent rounds of venture capital investment, investors (particularly east coast VCs), want to see evidence of market traction in the form of product sales and revenue before they'll get behind an idea.

The revamp proved «bold enough and interesting enough» to reverse Diet Coke's negative sales trend, Coca - Cola CEO James Quincey said in a call with investors.

BlackBerry still owns more than 40 % of the North American smartphone market, and though it continues to show healthy growth in emerging markets, investors worry about the declining average sale price for its products, about RIM's failure to make a dent in the consumer marketplace, and about the growing sense that it no longer offers an enterprise user anything that one of its sexier rivals doesn't do as well or better.

Investors hope the company will grow from $ 2 million in sales in fiscal year 2001 to $ 4 million or $ 5 million in fiscal year 2002.

If you're just starting up and have been using out - of - pocket expenses to travel for work, you're in luck — you can deduct that time logged going to sales calls and investor meetings.

ILG serves some 2 million members through various networks and has faced pressure from investor FrontFour Capital Group, which has been urging a sale to cash in at a time when U.S. stock valuations are high and global travel demand is booming.