Sentences with phrase «shares of a company short»

Brokers can lend shares to investors looking to sell shares of a company short.

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Shares of Exxon Mobil have slumped since earlier this year, when the company's fourth - quarter earnings fell short of Wall Street's expectations.

LONDON / BENGALURU, May 2 (Reuters)- Spotify Technology SA shares dropped as much as 9 percent after the streaming music leader's subscriber outlook and quarterly revenue fell just short of analyst estimates in its first report as a public company.

LONDON / BENGALURU, May 2 - Spotify Technology SA shares dropped as much as 9 percent after the streaming music leader's subscriber outlook and quarterly revenue fell just short of analyst estimates in its first report as a public company.

LONDON / BENGALURU, May 2 - Spotify Technology SA shares dropped 9 percent after the streaming music leader's subscriber outlook and quarterly revenue fell just short of analyst estimates in its first report as a public company.

Gilead Sciences — Gilead fell 19 cents a share shy of estimates with adjusted quarterly profit of $ 1.48 per share, and the biotech company's revenue also fell short of Street forecasts.

While the company expects that the deal will close in the fourth quarter of this year and add to earnings in 2018, analysts say the earnings boost may not be as lucrative to shareholders in the short run as share buybacks.

A Bloomberg article notes short sellers have borrowed a stunning 82 % of the company's lendable supply of shares.

Short - seller Jim Chanos, Kynikos Associates founder, shares his thoughts on Tesla, Elon Musk and the mass exodus of the company's top executives.

Earlier this month, that fuse got significantly shorter once the President weighed in on the issue, as he publicly shamed companies that are not collecting their fair share of local taxes.

Seeking to appease investors with boosts to share prices, CEOs are prioritizing short - term returns at the expense of R&D, workforce training and other investments essential to their companies» long - term growth.

There was a flurry of interest recently in a lawsuit launched by some Facebook shareholders, who apparently believe that they got the short end of the stick in the company's recent share restructuring.

But the company's financial performance of late has been wanting, with profit per share and revenue growth between 2013 to 2016 falling short of the targets promised to investors.

Twitter shares sank Thursday after the social media company reported quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street's expectations and issued guidance that fell far short of estimates.

The company's shares had until recently tumbled, with profit per share and revenue growth between 2013 to 2016 falling short of the targets promised to investors.

Shares in the online travel services company are being marked down sharply Friday after a bleak earnings report that fell short of consensus forecasts and led the company to cut its own forecast for earnings this year.

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Pharma company Valeant's shares dropped 75 % after a short seller accused it of using a pharmacy to artificially inflate its sales.

LONDON / BENGALURU, May 2 (Reuters)- Spotify Technology SA shares dropped 9 percent after the streaming music leader's subscriber outlook and quarterly revenue fell just short of analyst estimates in its first report as a public company.

Mittleman has agreed that until July 1, 2019 it won't take any actions against Aimia, including soliciting proxies, voting any shares, calling a special meeting, proposing the removal of board members, engaging in short selling or making disparaging comments about the company.

It seems the best workers at the company share a very specific pattern of high - intensity productivity followed by a short recharge period.

Spotify shares took a hit after hours as its first earnings report as a publicly traded company met the company's own guidance but fell short of Wall Street expectations.

Arbitrageurs, who typically make short - term bets around the outcomes of deals and other major transactions, own roughly 350 million shares or 20 percent of the company's outstanding stock, one of the investors estimated.

Definition: A strategy that involves buying shares of stock in one company while shorting another one.

«These 3G guys are really about how can we extract more out of the business, and long term, that tends to not work out well for a brand,» says Horan, who is considering «shorting,» or betting against, the shares of the holding company if and when the deal closes and it hits the market.

Byrne, who has a doctorate in philosophy, has been outspoken in his disdain for naked short sellers and other Wall Street «Sith Lords,» as he once called them, who he sees as unfair manipulators of his company's share price.

As the strength of the earnings growth we forecast materializes, and these funds scramble to correct this mistake, only to find themselves competing in the market to do so, a de facto short squeeze may occur, and we can only hope that the company has repurchased all the shares it can before that happens.

And if that weren't enough, almost half of the company's shares are currently being shorted.

Conversely, if the investor was bearish over the short term and did not own shares of the company, the investor could have purchased a put option on EFF Corp..

The risks are even greater if lots of investors are shorting the stock since that makes them all the more sensitive to the company's share price.

To Kalanick's credit, Khosrowshahi is inheriting a company that has achieved massive global scale in a short period of time, and — while Lyft's market share is growing — is still the dominant player in the U.S. and other parts of the world.

Despite the fact that the company is in terrific financial shape, it's one of the most - hated stocks on the market, as nearly 80 % of the company's shares have been sold short.

Tilson's firmed disclosed a 164,000 share position citing the company's low valuation (5.6 x trailing EPS), huge short interest (43 percent of the gloat), recent management changes, and a large market opportunity as reasons to hold a positive bias on the company.

Its share price has fallen dramatically since it became embroiled in the underpayment scandal and it is the third most shorted stock on the ASX with more than 16 per cent of the shares in the company short sold.

The aggressive and hyperactive takeover battle for WCB has seen the small dairy company's share price rocket from around $ 4 to close to $ 10 in only a few short months, with Lion keen to protect its sizeable National Foods business that owns a portfolio of well know cheeses and milk.

Shares in franchise operator Retail Food Group may have been shielded from further falls because the amount of stock available to borrow and short the company is drying up.

Even though, the issue was highlighted by the G8, the declaration fell short of laying down an action plan to collect and share information on real ownership of companies.

But in a successful growing company you may find yourself head of R&D or in some other responsible position in short order, and your «share option» might actually be worth some money!

Ferragamo's share price dropped by over 15 percent in May as the company cautioned the market over its short - term outlook: 2017 will be a year of transition for the company.

With Celestica moving away from BlackBerry hardware production, this only serves to add to RIM's growing short - term problems, as the company is attempting to weather the transition from its current platform in OS 7, being the last version of the Java - based platform that it began using in 2003 to BBX, which is the QNX - based platform which shares major underpinnings with the BlackBerry PlayBook while also adding features common to iOS and Android, but will not be released until this Fall, after initially being targeted for a February launch.

BlackBerry shares were hammered last month after the company's financial results fell short of expectations.

Its close proximity to Boston gives commuters access to the area's commuter train and a short ride to the city (albeit with some company along the way), yet it also has its share of restaurants and local attractions that keep people around during their off - hours.

Most investors buy shares of various companies and depending on their trading mentality, either sock them away for the long term in their investment portfolios (buy - and - hold investors) or trade them on a short - term basis (day traders and swing traders).

Graham's point was that fear, greed, and other emotions (the voting machine) can drive short - term market fluctuations which in turn cause disconnects between the price and true value of a company's shares.

In short, Apple is a «world - dominating» company... it's growing its dividend and buying back its own shares... it pays HUGE income by way of options premiums... it's a great stock to hold for the long - term... and it has a trifecta of share - price catalysts that indicate shares are undervalued at current levels.

I'm just curious, it seems a CEO could make a lot of money by shorting a huge amount of shares on his company through a third party and then purposefully tanking the company before being fired.

The short version is that index funds use a weighted index which takes into account that shares from the companies on the list vary according to number of shares and price per share.

Given Visteon's multiple internal and external catalyst's, highly attractive absolute valuation and the outsized spread between the company's «when issued» shares and the already depressed valuation's of its global competitors, we think that the stars are aligning for bargain hunting investors to generate spectacular returns of 30 % + in a short period of time with relatively low risk.

The company's Q3 free cash flow (including asset sales) fell $ 1.1 billion short of covering the dividend and was $ 1.6 billion short including share repurchases.

IBM's share price may rise or fall but as the owner, you understand the true worth of the company and are immune to short - term fluctuations.