Sentences with phrase «than companies in»

Although secure, it means they're more susceptible to external changes than companies in the higher rankings.

In the four years after the date of selection, the earnings of the companies in the lowest price - to - book value quintile (average price - to - book value of 0.36) increase 24.4 %, more than the companies in the highest price - to - book value quintile (average price - to - book value of 3.42), whose earnings increased only 8.2 %.

The counterintuitive element is that companies within the lowest price - to - book quintile — not, by any means, earnings machines — tend to grow earnings faster than companies in the highest price - to - book quintile, a phenomenon that value investors recognize as «mean reversion».

Our study concluded that renters insurance rates in Roxboro vary by $ 384, which is more than some companies in the city charge for a year of renters insurance coverage.

However, it has been more fortunate than companies in other industries, Hanks says.

Does it mean that the companies in the $ 5m + bucket are doing worse (or operating less efficiently) than the companies in the under - $ 5m bucket?

This is bigger than every company in the S&P 500 with the exception of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, and Exxon Mobil.

A retailer with a philosophy of enlightened self - interest wants to keep prices low, and is treating authors better than any company in history.

Not exact matches

In other words, companies run by men got more than 16 times more funding than companies run by women.

While Lyft never operated services in China, the complication adds heat to a U.S. market some say is winner - take - all, where one company has a valuation more than 10 times that of the other.

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

The company has about 1,200 employees and has quietly taken on more than $ 200 million in venture funding.

In BlackBerry's case, however, investors have sent the company's share price up more than 12 % so far today after a dismal set of earnings were released this morning.

When Business Insider talked to CEO Joe Einhorn in March, he said that the company's international market is growing fast and that it now offers same - day delivery in more than 100 cities around the world.

In Japan, a Tokyo governor recently ordered municipal employees to finish their work by 8:00 p.m., after a 25 - year - old woman employed by Dentsu, an advertising company, jumped to her death after logging more than 105 overtime hours in one montIn Japan, a Tokyo governor recently ordered municipal employees to finish their work by 8:00 p.m., after a 25 - year - old woman employed by Dentsu, an advertising company, jumped to her death after logging more than 105 overtime hours in one montin one month.

Nobody is hotter in Silicon Valley right now than Jen - Hsun «Jensen» Huang, 54, the cofounder and CEO of semiconductor and software company Nvidia.

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

More than a tenth of the names on the 2017 PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada's Fastest - Growing Companies are headquartered in and around the city.

Without giving away any trade secrets, a good CPA will tell you when certain financial ratios or metrics are better or worse than similar companies in their stead.

Jackie Stone, CMO of MiMedia, a personal cloud storage company, told Business News Daily: «I've worked in digital media for more than 20 years, and as we become more connected, more people have decided that staying «on» 24/7 is socially acceptable — and it's not.»

These companies use political contributions and armies of lobbyists to cajole governments to ignore the consequences: an economic crisis worse than the recent recession awaits if these nations fail to spark growth in areas that can stimulate growth and create jobs.

As Gluskin Sheff + Associates» David Rosenberg and Peter Mann put it in a note last week: «the real money will be made based on classic value investing that focuses more on company fundamentals than on Trump - onomics.»

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

All companies, and especially small firms, must be clear about more than just their budget before they can start designing their offices, says Richard Shugar, the principal and owner of 2fORM, an architecture firm based in Oregon.

Cagle, who has earned an A + rating from the NRA every year he has served in elected office, said companies should take different action than punishing the NRA.

KIND Healthy Snacks has sold more than one billion snack bars — that's billion with a «B.» The New York City - based company was founded in 2004 by CEO Daniel Lubetzky and today has about 300 full - time employees.

During his presentation alongside Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger at the company's annual meeting in April, Buffett remarked, «Union Pacific's rail network is much better positioned for Mexico than BNSF.»

As of March 2016, Express Scripts began amortizing the contract over 10 years, rather than over 15 years as it had been doing, the company said in its annual filing in February.

Additionally, the company lowered forecasts for the next earnings period, unsurprisingly sending its stock price tanking more than 10 percent in after - hours trading.

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.

Shares in South Perth - based Noble Mineral Resources have surged more than 37 per cent on news Chinese group Zhongrun is to invest $ 87.7 million and take a 42 per cent stake in the company.

After the earnings announcement, the company's shares jumped more than 6 percent in after - hours trading.

The company has raised $ 45.5 million in venture capital and its tech reaches more than 1.3 billion consumers across more than 3.3 billion devices globally.

Still, sales growth at its parent company Yum Brands was weaker than expected, hurt by a chicken shortage at KFC chain restaurants in the U.K. and Ireland.

Waymo claimed in a lawsuit earlier this year that former engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files before leaving to set up a self - driving truck company, which Uber acquired soon after.

Although more than half of the company's stores are outside the U.S., the international business brings in only about a third of revenue.

According to Reuters, which earlier reported on the move, Amazon customers will be able to buy more than 45 million products currently available in the company's U.S. store.

When something brings in more than 95 % of revenues, it should come as no surprise that a company will go to great lengths to obtain any information it can to boost those revenues.

«We find the best people in the world and either bring them to Canada to have them work for us in Nova Scotia — we speak more than 10 languages in our facility here — or we base them throughout the world to represent our company in all the countries in which we operate,» says Deveau.

KIND, which launched in 2004, has sold more than one billion bars and currently has 300 people working full - time at the company.

Yet that value may notch even higher this year, to more than $ 70 billion, as the company is reportedly in talks to receive more venture capital financing.

A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

«In fact, founders like Michael probably have spent more time with their company than their kids.

Shell is listed on the London Stock Exchange with a market cap of 193 billion pounds — more than any other listed corporation on the exchange and one of the highest of any company in the world.

Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, has found it easier to set up shop in countries like Brazil and China rather than contend with U.S. government regul...

Having recently successfully raised more than $ 1.5 million in 90 minutes during its pre-initial coin offering (ICO) sale in late August, the company is a step closer in its bid to bring back the trust between consumers and merchants.

In 2001 the company purchased Centura Banks, a traditional bricks - and - mortar operation, for more than $ 2 billion and attempted to build a footprint in the southeast U.S. Centura was a lousy business to start with, and RBC was ill - equipped for the intensely competitive U.S. marketplacIn 2001 the company purchased Centura Banks, a traditional bricks - and - mortar operation, for more than $ 2 billion and attempted to build a footprint in the southeast U.S. Centura was a lousy business to start with, and RBC was ill - equipped for the intensely competitive U.S. marketplacin the southeast U.S. Centura was a lousy business to start with, and RBC was ill - equipped for the intensely competitive U.S. marketplace.

Parker won't reveal how many customers he has, but says PillPack has shipped more than five million packets, and that the company's employee base, revenue, and valuation all increased 10 times in 2015.

The company brought in more than 6.65 million Euros ($ 7 million) in 2015 sales, and has been profitable since launching in 2010, according to Desandre.

NewLink Genetics» stock price cratered more than 32 % in early Thursday trading after Roche arm Genentech told the company it would be returning the rights to NewLink's experimental cancer treatment navoximod.