Sentences with phrase «shareholders after costs»

Not exact matches

Because the SEC's rules for resubmission of a failed proposal by a shareholder in the next year's proxy statement require that the proposal have received up to 10 % of the vote (depending on how many years it has been submitted), the significant voting impact of an ISS recommendation can empower a proponent to resubmit a proposal year after year, imposing costs on the company and creating waste and negative publicity to the detriment of the company and its shareholders.

The Federal Reserve's decision to restrict the growth of Wells Fargo until it improves its corporate governance practices sent shares of the bank sharply lower in after - hours trading, costing its biggest shareholder, Berkshire Hathaway, close to $ 2 billion.

-- Pursuing greater value for shareholders by investing capital only in assets that, after prudent assessment, offer attractive returns that are well above our cost of capital.

«And as shareholders, we support the proposal that bonus pools should be formed only after taking into account the cost of capital, adjusted for risk.

After asking the SEC to stop a resolution filed by Arunja and As You Sow, Chevron Corp. will see its shareholders vote on the petition, which asks the energy major to reassess high - cost projects due to the possibility that such energy deposits could be stranded by climate regulation.

A board could even decide to dissolve the company and distribute the net assets (after paying debts and dissolution costs) to the shareholders — but this is seldom done because there's often more profit in remaining a going concern.

That's why a lot of us tend to invest in companies like PG, JNJ, KMI, PM, MO, T etc because those companies have pretty wide moats / competitive advantages, long histories of dividend raises, shareholder support and solid revenue, cost controls = > positive net income and generally healthy operating cash flow, sometimes high amounts of free cash flow after capital investment.

After all, it's a capital light industry that is highly scalable; relatively small fixed overhead costs can be amortized over vast asset bases, resulting in some very fat margins and returns on shareholder capital as an asset manager's business expands.

Walsh warned shareholders and employees of the painful restructuring, cost reduction & rationalisation still to come, and then began systematically ticking each action item off his list: i) After one last kitchen sink loss in 2012 of EUR 116 million (mostly goodwill impairment), One51 actually recorded a net profit in 2013 for the first time in 7 years, ii) free cash flow increased from just EUR 1.1 million in 2011 to 15.4 million in 2013, iii) almost EUR 100 million was raised in two years from the sale of the plastic extrusion business, the disposal of stakes in Island Renewable Energy, Thirdforce, IFG, and (most significantly) Irish Continental Group, in addition to a substantial 2013 capital redemption from NTR, and iv) net debt (exc.

Portfolio Turnover Risk: The Fund's high portfolio turnover will increase its transaction costs and may result in increased realization of net short - term capital gains (which are taxable to shareholders as ordinary income when distributed to them), higher taxable distributions and lower after - tax performance.

BA Value Investors has disclosed a 5.1 % holding in VaxGen Inc (OTC: VXGN) and, in a letter to the board of directors, called on VXGN to «act promptly to reduce the size of the board to three directors; reduce director compensation; change to a smaller audit firm; terminate the lease of its facilities; otherwise cut costs; make an immediate $ 10 million distribution to shareholders; make a subsequent distribution of substantially all the remaining cash after settling the lease termination; distribute any royalty income to shareholders; and explore ways to monetize the public company value of the Issuer and use of its net operating losses.»

BA Value Investors had previously disclosed an activist holding and, in a June 12 letter to the board, called on VXGN to «act promptly to reduce the size of the board to three directors; reduce director compensation; change to a smaller audit firm; terminate the lease of its facilities; otherwise cut costs; make an immediate $ 10 million distribution to shareholders; make a subsequent distribution of substantially all the remaining cash after settling the lease termination; distribute any royalty income to shareholders; and explore ways to monetize the public company value of the Issuer and use of its net operating losses.»

VXGN has now also attracted the attention of BA Value Investors, which has disclosed an activist holding and called on VXGN to «act promptly to reduce the size of the board to three directors; reduce director compensation; change to a smaller audit firm; terminate the lease of its facilities; otherwise cut costs; make an immediate $ 10 million distribution to shareholders; make a subsequent distribution of substantially all the remaining cash after settling the lease termination; distribute any royalty income to shareholders; and explore ways to monetize the public company value of the Issuer and use of its net operating losses.»