In the article I made the point that VC investors seldom value profitability if it comes with
slow growth so forcing yourself to be profitable is wise in three specific scenarios:
The company hasn't
slowed its growth so far and continues to close contracts.
The company hasn't
slowed its growth so far and continues to close contracts.
Not exact matches
Much of the
growth in recent years has come from household spending, which must
slow eventually because
so much of that spending was done on credit.
So you may see
slowing growth, but does it mean stocks will be down?
So the firm expects earnings - per - share
growth to
slow in the second half of the year as the positive effect wears off.
The majority of Canadians fall into at least one of the groups with
slow employment
growth (women, people under age 55, those living outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan, etc.),
so it has been a rough 12 months for most of us.
Users grew by more than 50 percent in 2014 and 2015,
so growth has already
slowed.
So far rivals have not shown an ability to take advantage of Bloomberg's missteps; the company has continued to eke out additional market share even as its terminal sales have
slowed to 1 % annual
growth the past two years.
The one big potential downside is that the online education market becomes
so crowded that its
growth slows, but he's optimistic that this company and its «high - end, high quality» services can be a leader in this space.
Apart from
slowing global demand, export
growth is seen crimped by a strong dollar, which
so far this year has strengthened by about 4 percent against the currencies of the country's main trading partners.
And, in
so doing, it has fueled populist anger across the political spectrum and
slowed the
growth of the economy as a whole.
«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly
so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the
slow -
growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.
A
so far fruitless search for a replacement CEO with American chops and
slow expansion in the States — never mind the store closings — has cast a shadow on future
growth.
Apple's stock is already being punished for having a
slowing growth rate and peaking margins,
so a deal with China Mobile is very important to the company even if margins go down a little, Pearl said.
And
so in maybe 2014 I announced a $ 10 billion restructuring program some of which was divesting
slow -
growth businesses.
So when economic
growth slows because of weak investment, trade
slows disproportionately.
Rising interest rates might cause prices to
slow in
growth (and yes, cash buyers won't care,
so an AirBnB IPO might create a lot of new cash buyers).
So let me just point out that the
growth of the population of companies
slowed dramatically in a number of countries in the wake of the global financial crisis.
That said, as I write in my new weekly commentary, «The Scene Is Set for Higher Volatility,» there is a big difference between
slow growth and no
growth,
so it's important to put last week's events in context.
So, it's not surprising that amid
slowing economic
growth, central banks are scooping out even more stimulus on top of their years of quantitative easing (QE) programs and aggressive rate cuts.
And it is this abatement of the great distortions that have caused
growth to
slow so rapidly, and although we haven't seen much evidence of significant rebalancing yet, it should take a few years for the effects fully to be worked out.
Small companies tend to grow more quickly than large companies (the «size premium»),
so expect Berkshire
growth to be
slower moving forward.
Johnson's plan would
slow the
growth of benefits over the next decade and then gradually put benefits on a glide path to bring them below payable benefits
so they could be financed entirely with the program's 12.4 percent payroll tax.
So this is not the same as the OPEC shocks of the mid and late 1970s, when large supply disruptions pushed prices higher and
slowed global
growth.
However,
so far in this cycle, wage
growth (the more critical metric) has been
slow to pick up.
In the case of China, for example, whatever GDP
growth turns out to be, and again this is just arithmetic, Chinese household income
growth will be higher and investment
growth lower — after nearly thirty years of the reverse relationship —
so that the impact of
slower growth will be disproportionately smaller on consumption
growth and larger on investment
growth.
Most Canadians are also wondering why eliminating the deficit is
so important especially when economic
growth continues to
slow and unemployment remains
so high.
It is difficult to model the many ways credit intensivity of
growth can change, but if we simply assume that there is no improvement except as
growth slows,
so that the ratio between credit
growth and GDP
growth stays constant, the table below shows debt levels at the end of ten years at different GDP
growth rates:
Indeed, any sign of
slowing growth in China should be met with further easing policies,
so we're going to see lots of stimulus in various forms to help mitigate the damage from the recent rout.
When
growth slows,
so do most revenues, real estate prices, and demand for commodities.
So while the craft beer industry is still growing, the
growth is starting to
slow.
San Jose is already building at too
slow a rate to keep up with job
growth,
so the addition of 116,250 Amazon HQ2 jobs over ten years would send rents through the roof.
The company's automotive OEM segment has consistently generated
growth in excess of industry
growth — the segment's organic revenue
growth was 9 % in the quarter compared to 6 % for global car build
growth —
so if China's automotive production
growth slows then Illinois Tool Work's automotive OEM
growth rate is likely to
slow significantly too.
It just sets a negative tone for global
growth, and
so everyone's going to get hit if tariffs rise across the world,
so even Canada's
growth will
slow down,» said Chopra.
Why is the market going up with unemployment
so high, consumer debt outrageous, an environment where taxes must go higher, energy 5xs the norm, housing still depressed, access to credit stunted, expensive war expenditures, the Greece failure, a weak dollar, and
slow economic
growth?
The NOPAT margin goal is feasible, but to do
so WDAY would have to cut its marketing expenses, which would in turn
slow revenue
growth.
At the same time, having abandoned currency pegs, the most significant emerging markets have (
so far at least) managed to avoid raising rates in the teeth of
slowing growth.
Germany is highly leveraged to the Chinese industrial cycle
so this may be a sign that Chinese
growth has
slowed more than the authorities admit — as indicated by plummeting yields on Chinese bonds, and rates on three - month Shibor and certificates of deposit.
So rather than a quick plunge and rapid restructuring, Japan entered what would first be described as a «lost decade» of
slow growth, deflation, and de-leveraging.
So the next couple of years are likely to see
slower GDP
growth and possibly a tendency to rising inflation.
As inflation creeps up, prices rise, and GDP
growth slows,
so too does the stock market decline in value.
While the economy is growing, the bad debt won't be
so apparent, but it certainly will be when the economic
growth slows.
So assuming earnings
growth is not affected,
slower inflation and lower bond yields might support higher P / E levels.
The first order impact of a «territorial system» that renounces a US tax claim to corporations» overseas income will be to encourage the relocation of productive activity from America to tax - haven jurisdictions, and
so to
slow US
growth.
So far in 2015,
slowing growth, weak traffic, and slimming margins have all contributed to a 60 % drop in LOCO's stock price.
More recently, manufacturing output has continued to grow strongly, but shortages of coal have restrained output in energy - intensive sectors
so that
growth in total industrial production
slowed to 5 per cent over the year to February.
As the torrid recovery
growth slowed, I gradually unwound all the borrowing,
so we're debt - free now, except for the fixed first mortgage.
Secular Stagnation Taken as a whole, the latest Fed projections of
slower GDP
growth, low unemployment and still - low inflation suggest that concerns of a
so - called secular stagnation may be taking root among Fed policymakers.
So if you have one kind of
growth — booming financial fortunes in the stock market, higher real - estate prices and more expensive means of living — then you are going to have
slower growth in the real economy because money is diverted from peoples» pay - checks away from buying goods and services to just having to pay the banks.