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While that has worked nicely — companies in the sector have seen gross margins expand by 16 % in 2011 to 21 % in 2013 — some experts think housing prices could fall in the near future.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

While the SRDC findings translate most easily to companies in the service sector, bottom - line benefits from WLES training have been observed in other sectors too.

For GE, the deal will help it focus more on the oil and gas sector, especially in North America, while shielding the parent company's earnings from the energy industry's boom and bust cycles.

While it employs more women compared to most tech companies (42 percent), men still represent the majority gender when it comes to other workforce sectors.

While conventional manufacturers in the automotive, steel and textile sectors have struggled, companies building equipment for the energy and mining sectors barely blinked.

Ten venture - backed companies in the first quarter came from the IT sector, while 24 were life sciences companies including biotech and health concerns, NVCA reports.

She'd also provide greater protections for contract workers in the «gig» economy, while supporting the innovations of companies such as Airbnb and Uber, which have built that new sector.

While the auto - parts sector is cyclical — companies make most of their money earlier in the year, while automakers are assembling cars for September launches — many companies pay a dividend to get you through the slow tWhile the auto - parts sector is cyclical — companies make most of their money earlier in the year, while automakers are assembling cars for September launches — many companies pay a dividend to get you through the slow twhile automakers are assembling cars for September launches — many companies pay a dividend to get you through the slow times.

While these companies are unsurprisingly out of favour with many investors — a lot simply won't buy these companies on moral grounds — they think the sector's high yields, low correlation with market cycles and steady earnings will make investors give them another look, and then stock prices will appreciate.

While both companies deal in selling drinks, they play different roles in the beverage sector.

That's because, while the Canadian economy is very sensitive to whatever happens to U.S. consumers and private companies, we're not quite so closely linked to America's public sector.

While Carson won't disclose how many businesses are using Pepperdata's software, he said the company has scored customers from the consumer electronics, media, financial services, telecommunications, and energy sectors.

While much of the venture capital activity in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley, in recent years a sector of the economy with closer ties to Washington, D.C., than San Francisco has been upping its investments in start - up technology companies — America's defense industry.

«As regulatory, technological and cultural gaps all work to slow innovation adoption, Viola Fintech accelerates the integration of innovative ideas into financial institutions while providing the necessary resources to fintech companies as they scale to transform the financial sector.»

While Riot says on its website that it maintains its Bioptix business, the company intends to «gain exposure to the blockchain ecosystem through targeted investments in the sector, with a primary focus on the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.»

While Berkshire remains best known for insurance and reinsurance, that sector now generates only about one - fourth of operating results as the company has diversified.

While the series highlights companies in three very different industries, Toyota has, in fact, worked with many companies in an even broader array of sectors, and in the aggregate they prove that when you open yourself to learn from the best, great things can happen.

Build on its record as the first government to achieve an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by working with provinces to reduce emissions from the oil and gas sectors while ensuring Canadian companies remain competitive.

While many companies across a variety of sectors recognize and disclose their climate risks and opportunities, reporting is not consistent and often not included in financial reporting.

Chinese multinationals have expanded worldwide, while the Chinese market remains relatively closed to foreign companies in a large number of sectors.

Households do the saving, while companies do the investing, so the corporate sector is inevitably highly indebted in fast - growing countries with under - developed equity markets.

In the United States last year, close to 20 percent of private - sector employees owned stock, and 7 percent held stock options, in the companies where they worked, while about one - third participated in some kind of cash profit - sharing and one - fourth in gain - sharing (when workers get additional compensation based on improvement on a metric other than profits, like sales or customer satisfaction).

They ranked low on the Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Index: Energy shares sank 5.9 %, on average, while materials sector stocks collectively shed 5.5 % of their value; among the nine other equity sectors, only telecommunication services and consumer staples companies posted larger losses.1

While the world's largest companies often dominate headlines, small businesses remain the lifeblood of our economy, employing nearly 58 million Americans and making up almost half of the nation's private sector jobs.

While NAFTA functions well for manufacturing and resource businesses, it leaves our policy makers believing that opening more international markets is the key to success for all sectors — even as that strategy fails to provide equitable results for Canadian companies competing to scale up their ideas globally.

Symbian has just been overtaken by Android, while Apple is the most profitable company in the sector, followed by RIM with its BlackBerry.

And while the new, combined company will likely still be run by current popular T - Mobile CEO John Legere, the very act of eliminating one of only four major players in the wireless market will indisputably reduce the incentive to more seriously compete on price, and could help reverse the progress the sector has seen in recent years.

Perhaps the most important takeaway is that while there can be merit to any number of analytical styles (fundamental, sector, thematic, technical), a company's shares can take on a life of their own out in the secondary market where the shares live.

But with long - term bonds and non-cyclical equity sectors trading at historically extreme valuations while cyclical sectors trade at valuations below their long - term average, we think that risk aversion is creating numerous investment opportunities for investors willing to build a portfolio of more economically sensitive companies.

Looking at the sector - wide performance of Corporate America in the second quarter of this year, more than 80 percent of the companies in information technology, healthcare and the financial - services space reported higher than estimated EPS growth, closely followed by the consumer staples industry producing food, beverages, household articles, while about 60 - 70 percent of the companies listed under the energy, utilities and materials sectors reported better than expected EPS numbers.

While many companies in less economically sensitive industries, particularly those in the consumer staples sector, meet our criteria for potential investment, we believe that investors are currently assigning excessively high valuations to companies that offer non-cyclical business models.

While it's important to look ahead in an attempt to gain insight into where a company or sector is heading, Brad suggests investors pay attention to historical valuation levels.

Learn from industry veterans from across the health sector on how they have built their companies while remaining agile, dedicated and resilient.

Interesting enough, relatively small companies in the utilities and financial sectors have made their way onto this prestigious list while rarely making the Bloomberg finance first page.

While our focus is middle - and small - capitalization companies, our go deep philosophy typically results in our coverage of large, medium, and small companies across each sector; overall about one - third of our global coverage universe is large cap companies.

While some investors choose to go it alone and select individual stocks for the income portion of their portfolio, the beauty of high yield ETFs is that they spread the individual company risk across several issues, often across sectors, and sometimes, even across countries.

«The associations urge President Trump to avoid any decision which would do harm to so many downstream steel manufacturing companies and other steel consumers, our employees, and our customers, with little or no additional protection to the basic steel industry, while at the same time causing great economic harm to numerous other sectors of the US economy.»

Our favorite strateges will be shorting or defensive Market Neutral Hedging: Buying a strong stock while shorting an appropriate index (SPX or Nasdaq), or Pairs Trading - buying a strong company and selling a weak one in the same sector usually makes money whether the market moves up, down or sideways.

While the stock selection process is somewhat subjective, a stock typically is added only if the company has an excellent reputation, demonstrates sustained growth, is of interest to a large number of investors and accurately represents the market sectors covered by the average.

While constant mention of the lack of investment capital, low commodities prices, layoffs and corporate restructurings paints a bleak picture of the whole sector, what has been the market turmoil's effects on individual mining companies?

This difference pertains to their scope; a sector refers to a large segment of the economy, while the term industry describes a much more specific group of companies or businesses.

There are, however, fears that the government is trying to stifle the kind of fintech that seeks to democratise the financial sector, while embracing those that allow it to exert more control over its citizens (in January, plans were announced for a US$ 2.12 bn artificial intelligence [AI] development park in Beijing, with China urging companies including those in the military sector to participate in the technology's development).

As one of the first public companies in the cryptoassets sector, we provide a responsible gateway to the exponentially growing digital asset classes all while complying with the same laws and regulations required for traditional public markets.

While we continue to find selective value in the dynamic US corporate sector, many US companies have broadly high valuations and extended profit margins, which makes our search for value challenging.

Canada wants to preserve auto - sector manufacturing jobs in Ontario by ensuring that Chinese - made parts in Japanese cars do not displace Canadian parts, but it is ironic that both Korean and European manufacturers are enjoying a phase - out of Canadian auto tariffs while Japanese companies, which have invested in Canada, still face a tariff barrier.

First, I would ask how their policy stance can support government support for the forestry and aerospace sectors while advocating a position to, «abolish tax give - aways for oil companies?»

While the company has needed to adapt to rising gas prices and a decline in business from the restaurant sector, it has been able to keep up business by knowing its customers» needs.

While energy companies are the most frequent targets of climate activism, a new report by GRAIN shows that large food corporations — especially in the meat and dairy sector — are huge contributors to global climate change.

The processing sector has also been hot with the mammoth $ 1.45 billion takeover of Primo Smallgoods by Brazil's JBS while British Billionaire Joe Lewis, whose investment company owns 32 per cent of AACo, has been AACo's main backer during construction of its Darwin abattoir.