Sentences with phrase «than most companies thought»

It is a lot tougher than most companies thought it would be,» says Henry Levin, director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Columbia University's Teachers College.

Not exact matches

«The company sold more iPhones than most of the bullish analysts thought, including the X, which the community had derided endlessly,» Cramer said after he and CNBC's Josh Lipton spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook.

The company is also tied less to the housing market than most would think because the company targets the mass consumer.

«This business is all about trying to divine which companies are doing better than we think, so that we can pick the stocks that have the most potential to outperform the rest of the market and throw away the others,» the «Mad Money» host said.

There's better - than - even chance that the software - only companies will survive as an independent industry, particularly if IBM's actions mean as much as most people think they do.

With the founding of Crypto Valley Association, we are promoting more than a region: we have founded a global association as a base for the sector's most innovative and forward thinking companies, further strengthening Switzerland's position as a leading centre of innovation in this sector,» said Oliver Bussmann, President of the CVA.

Two investors and one founder have told Re / code that most companies in the on - demand space are thinking about whether to reclassify their workers, although some are further along in their research than others.

The Saudis claim that the whole company is worth US$ 2 trillion, while most external analysts think the fair valuation is at least US$ 500 billion lower than that estimate.

Remember, the vast majority of the world thinks it's impossible to consistently make more than 10 - 20 % / year returns so everyone eats up boring, conservative, diversified mutual funds and long - term investments, at their most speculative being in giant companies like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG)... viewing inspirational stories like this turning $ 1,500 into $ 1 million and and this international trader and this teenager with skepticism...

If you want capitalists thinking for the long term and getting the most out of their workers, you have to encourage companies to be more deeply rooted in local communities rather than just free - floating instruments of capital markets.

I don't actually think the UFC are particularly worse than any other company with shareholders (although most businesses don't have a president going on the news publicly shaming employees / contractors into keeping their mouths shut).

Perhaps the single most damning finding of any YouGov survey during the campaign was that most people thought that the Tories would be far better than Labour for people working for large companies.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

Tapping the sponsorship of none other than lumbering, financially troubled General Motors and blending it with the skills of some of the most innovative, daring engineers in the vehicle business, MacCready has driven his small company to design and build a car that many observers think will make the biggest splash since the ’65 Mustang, and maybe even since the Model T. It's fast, it's sexy, and it's being rushed into mass production.

Entrepreneurship is, however, not as easy as most people think and there's more to it than starting a company, investing some cash, and trying to make it in the harsh world of modern business — it's also about finding the angle that works the most with your personality and staying true to your own wishes and desires.

As it stands now, publishing companies like MacMillan, HarperCollins, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, and others want to charge more for the digital versions of books than most of their customers think they are worth.

While I am always suspicious of new products that claim to improve on cap - weighting (most have more to do with marketing than sound investment principles), I think equal weighting may well be a superior way to invest in a sector with a small number of companies.

I have not reviewed the accounting in detail, but when I reviewed it in detail six years ago, I thought the accounting was more conservative than most insurance companies.

I think this is most likely as $ 150 per year seems way lower than any company I've ever heard of, and all his other numbers aren't per paycheck.

Most companies offer flexibility in the deferral period in case you wish to start payments sooner or later than first thought.

But if you are, that is, you believe in buying companies with good fundamentals at cheap prices and selling companies (promising or not) that have ridden momentum to the point of overvaluation, you are following in the footsteps of one of the most insightful and forward - thinking investors of all time, the «father of modern security analysis,» Benjamin Graham — and by extension, those of Warren Buffett, who claimed of Graham that «[m] ore than any other man except my father, he influenced by life» (Graham, 2006, p. ix).

But if companies can show that they have adequate control over their financial results such that they forecast future earnings and they honestly come to pass, investors will think the place is better managed than most, and reward it with a higher P / E multiple.

Most professionals invert the process, and rather than trying estimate what a stock is worth, they estimate what they think the company will return at the current market price.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

The depth and breadth of the company's sustainability commitments place it in a thought leadership category far higher than most operations of similar size.

Rather than us giving consumers a definitive list of solar contractors, most of whom may not operate where they live, we think giving consumers the characteristics to look for will better allow them to rank their local solar installation companies wherever they may live.

Concussions caused by car accidents are more common than most people thinks and as a Cincinnati car accident attorney I have seen insurance companies attempt to downplay the severe symptoms that can occur.

Most sensible companies will, I think, decide it is more trouble than it's worth.

You would be in «good company» if, like most law students and new calls coming up who do not own shares in an AI startup, you do not think that training a machine is a «better» career than the one you thought 3 years of law school tuition was going to land you.

Granted, there are more than just two companies for most conditions, but we think you get the point we are making.

The way most people think about insurance goes something like this: You make a wager that you might get in more trouble than you can afford to get yourself out of at some point — and when you do, the insurance company has to bail you out.

Finding a company that is financially stable is much more important than most applicants think.

Most companies think that the elderly are less able to handle the rigors of driving because of their less - than - desirable health conditions.

If you are thinking about getting this coverage, our licensed insurance brokers who work with more Canadian companies (20 + life insurers than most other agencies) will provide you with a no - obligation critical illness insurance quote, or will simply answer any of your questions.

Can you do something very noticable to make people quit thinking all (or even most, or even more than 1 %) virtual currency farming companies operating in China (and other countries) are sweatshops?

As you would expect with a phone from one of the most popular PC gaming peripheral companies, Razer hasn't pulled its punches with its first mobile phone, going all out across the board with this device, even fitting the word «insane» into the presentation more times than I thought possible.

Matthew Panzarino, Editor - in - chief at TechCrunch, thinks Apple has broken its «tick / tock» release cycle with the latest handsets, saying «Competition is too fierce, the scope of Apple's other ambitions is ever increasing, and with chip design in - house and clearly firing on all cylinders, the company has the resources and tools to introduce the most rapid refinements to the iPhone than ever before.»

Facebook will assign reputation scores to news sources, and the solution is far better than most of the company's critics would have you think.

With more than 5 years of materials research, and vacuum disposition objectives as a Thin Film Process Engineer, I have had the opportunity to develop creative, revolutionary and innovative products that support companies and business goals — and most importantly the clients, whose service experiences were immeasurably improved through implementation of these forward - thinking ideas.

Ullman, who is 67 years old, four years older than most of his peers on Cedar's board of directors, might be thinking of retirement and a sale would allow him to secure the company's future, says Adornato.