Sentences with phrase «shareholder return actually»

But a shift in corporate culture in the 1990s that led to a single - minded focus on profitability and shareholder return actually proved counterproductive for Boeing, as it quickly lost ground to Airbus.

Not exact matches

Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) said Monday that it agreed to sell Sprout back to its former shareholders, but the deal is actually more of a giveaway: All Valeant will receive in return for Sprout is 6 % of future sales of the female libido drug, starting around mid-2019, plus freedom from its remaining acquisition obligations and its legal fight with Sprout shareholders.

While corporate earnings are necessary to generate deliverable cash to shareholders, comparing prices to earnings is actually quite a poor way to estimate future investment returns.

I use the term «return» loosely since the company does not actually profit from the buyback, but from the shareholder's perspective the company is worth more per share.

Once (or should I say if) this pension / labour dispute is put to rest, I'd actually expect a rapid & substantial improvement in shareholder value — this might be a substantial return of capital or a tender offer (to distribute surplus cash), and / or a potential new partnership or even a takeover offer..?!

And since the board / management are the obvious problem / road - block here in terms of capital allocation, I do think the recent board changes actually offer asymmetric risk / reward — at worst, we end up with some new management / board members & just more of the same... but at best, we end up with a team who can actually deliver on acquisition (s) and / or a meaningful return of capital to shareholders (ideally, via a tender offer).

This launches a new growth phase that's long been anticipated by investors — actually, they can have their cake & eat it here, as management also committed to returning up to EUR 1 billion to shareholders (via buybacks & special dividends) over the next 2 years.

Seems like there may be a more serious / ongoing effort to rationalise / improve the portfolio, but obviously there's no indication when (if ever) substantial value might actually be realised here & returned to shareholders.

The current average dividend yield of the Dogs of the Dow screen is 3.9 %; this means shareholders of these stocks would actually have an annual return that is higher by approximately this amount.

Well, quite a lot... in the past 18 months, we've actually seen Pageant emerge as a vocal & public activist, pushing NTR plc to realise assets & return capital to shareholders.

This defensive posture has actually served it well, in terms of surviving the housing / credit crisis — but now leaves shareholders with a fairly meagre return on equity (4.3 % in the year ending Apr - 2013).

But prospects for TLI shareholders should actually be better than the model suggests — management's now made a specific commitment to repurchase shares (and / or return capital).