Sentences with phrase «stock prices up»

The Comcast executives» projection drove stock prices up creating a false inflation of stock prices.

That news has driven stock prices up, nothing to do with NX this go around... in fact everytime any tech company releases or announced new hardware stock usually dips.

But I don't understand why laying off employees will drive stock prices up.

Whitney Tilson: In 16 years of professional money management, I've seen hundreds of companies do all sorts of bad things to get their stock prices up.

It's called Shiller's Claim That It Is Now Investor Anxiety Rather Than Investor Exuberance Pushing Stock Prices Up Is Unconvincing.

It is unmistakably true that the 9 - year - long bull market has pulled stock prices up nearly across the board, often resulting in valuations that don't seem to offer much upside from current prices.

They aggressively bought back their own shares ahead of the 2007 stock market peak, slashed their buying during the market slump that followed and now, with stock prices up sharply over the past nine years, they're once again aggressively buying back shares, according to statistics from FactSet.com.

While there are some obscure investment cases to be made for ethereum classic, it strikes me as highly likely the price has been driven significantly higher by uninformed investors simply not understanding the difference between the two - similar to how adding".com» to a company's name in 1999 sent stock prices up on average 74 %.

And just as HFT programs can drive stock prices up as they feed on each other, they can also drive prices down.

It's fine to argue that perhaps investors are momentum chasers, and with profit margins now about 70 % above historical norms (making stocks seem both «safe» and misleadingly cheap), with stock prices up, and with low returns on cash, investors not holding stocks will be the greater fools that allow investors who do hold stocks to get out.

This is all because the central tenet of the old playbook — the Fed buys bonds, forcing interest rates down and stock prices up — is being rewritten.

The rates, held near zero for the entire bull market, have been widely credited with pushing stock prices up.

com» to a company's name in 1999 sent stock prices up on average 74 %.»

Along with several other analysts on Friday, including Steve Milunovich at UBS, Sacconaghi also said it was becoming clear that the latest lineup of iPhones had not sparked a massive wave of consumers with older models upgrading their phones, a prediction dubbed the «super cycle,» which had helped drive Apple's stock price up 45 % since early 2017.

Investors had a strong appetite for the company's stock, chomping up shares priced at $ 26 for the debut, and pushing the stock price up more than 50 percent soon after the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Under McCall's charge, the budget airline beat its earnings target yet again in 2014, with profits of $ 957 million, up 28 %, and the stock price up 11 % even as competitors battled losses in a tough business environment.

While investors have been thrilled, pushing the stock price up nearly 40 per cent over the 12 months before the deal was announced, critics argued that 3G's efforts to transform the day - to - day aspects of business — overhauling Burger King's tarnished reputation and developing innovative new menu items — remain a work in progress.

In return, the thinking goes, we're more likely to hold onto our shares, which can help keep the company's stock price up.

Some REIT's and other companies that capitalize operating costs to inflate operating income pay dividends to keep the stock price up so that they can fund the continuous drain on cash.

Increased profits (for example) will drive the stock price up; excessive debt (for example) will drive it down.

Therefore, executives are highly motivated to drive the stock price up.

A frequent criticism of corporate governence is that management can be so motivated to drive the stock price up, that they will take actions that drive the stock price up in the current year, even if undercuts the company in the long term.

His theory makes a lot of since in the fact that the consumer is what drives the earnings and that in turn should drive the stock price up.

They basically have zero incentive to get the stock price up and every incentive to just drain cash as long as they can.

Although the company has indicated it will undertake a $ 5M stock buyback, which will likely push the stock price up further, the stock has reached our estimate of its liquidation value, so the buyback will not increase the per share liquidation value at this level.

The board will be under great pressure to keep the company's stock price up to justify its rejection of Simon and Westfield's advances.

The primary goal at RE / MAX isn't getting the stock price up — it's to help top agents become even more productive.»

Not exact matches

The restaurant chain joined a handful of other small - cap stocks that have pushed up their stock price by announcing a link with Bitcoin or blockchain in the past year.

The high demand and limited supply has apparently created an opportunity for small third - party retailers that have some consoles in stock to jack up the price.

Is Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford, whose stock price went up 18 times under his watch, a fair judge of good leadership?

A resistance zone is a price zone the stock may repeatedly run up to without breaking through to new highs.

In addition, there has been a recent pick - up in insider buying, often a precursor to a rebound in stock prices six to 24 months down the road.

Activist investors, who now manage some $ 174 billion in assets, have exploded onto the scene, shaking up boards and pushing for share repurchases, company breakups, or outright sales in order to get stock prices higher.

But the firm still ended its 2015 fiscal year on an upswing, with revenues up by 10 %, earnings up 17 % to $ 70.2 million and the stock price back up in the $ 25 range.

Three years removed from a controversial price hike that sent subscribers scrambling and stock values into free - fall, founder and CEO Hastings reigns as the king of new media: Netflix added 2.82 million U.S. streaming - video subscribers during the first half of 2014, up from 2.66 million during the same period last year.

Priced at $ 9.99 per month or $ 99.99 per year, Beats Music has reportedly struggled to poach subscribers from rivals Spotify and Rdio, but that didn't stop Apple from gobbling up Beats this summer in a cash and stock deal valued at $ 3 billion, vaulting Dre's personal fortune to $ 800 million and making him the richest figure in hip - hop history.

the belief is that if profits go up, so will the stock price and in some cases the dividends paid as well.

January's preliminary figure is down from $ 702.7 billion at the end of September, but up from $ 632.4 billion at the end of March, when the start of a bull market began sending stock prices higher.

Our outsized energy index, which has helped push the S&P / TSX Composite Index up 15 % year - to - date, also includes several rate - sensitive stocks — though they're more susceptible to movements in oil prices — and is up 33 %.

As of the publishing of this list, the bank's stock price was still up 50 % from its 2016 low around $ 141.

Over the past 12 months, its stock price has shot up from $ 29 to $ 48, then slid back down to $ 23, then jumped up to $ 40, and it now sits at $ 27.50.

That's massive growth, no matter how you look at it, which helped push the stock price (NFLX) up by more than 139 % last year.

Investors will be watching Snap stock closely Thursday to see if it goes up or down — indications of whether investment bankers priced the shares appropriately.

The practice means that each new year's grants tend to end up being potentially more valuable than the previous year's, just because stock prices tend to drift higher over time.

The company's board put a special provision in Papa's employment agreement that turbocharges his pay the way a videogame might when a player levels up into bonus points mode: If Valeant's stock price reaches a new high of at least $ 270 a share in the next three years, Papa gets double the allotment of performance - based stock.

The company said in February that it planned to buy back up to $ 5 billion of stock over 2018 - 2020 to share the benefits of higher oil prices with investors.

On Friday, the stock got beaten up even more because analysts at Barclays Bank released a note cutting the shares to «underweight,» with an $ 89 price target (the stock closed at $ 93).

Although both favour a bottom - up approach when selecting stock (rather than, say, trolling a specific sector or region), Cooper and Ragan agree that it's becoming increasingly difficult to find European blue - chip companies at discount prices.

Now Ford — struggling with a lagging stock price, under the leadership of new CEO Jim Hackett, and working to catch up to the perception that General Motors and Tesla are ahead on electric cars and autonomous vehicles — has followed suit.

Newton, who doesn't own the stock but has his eye on it, says investors have to believe that the U.S. will continue its push for energy independence and that natural gas prices will remain low enough to keep it a more cost - effective way to fuel up.