Sentences with phrase «than performance based»

In keeping with the R - Class's luxury - transportation mission, traction control is all - weather rather than performance based, and we noticed no lack of traction on wet roads.

Lingard imo was better than Miki and Herrera when he left the pitch and I feel the change was more tactical than performance based.

Not exact matches

To be specific, Comcast's subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.

«You might also want to consider performance - based compensation rather than a front loaded salary.»

The company segmented stores based on performance, too, and focused intently on stocking up its top 25 locations, rather than treating all stores in the same manner.

Founders who were once in a race to get to a liquidity event such as a buyout or IPO now have viable options for continuing to add value beyond a Series B or C. Private investors also offer a more efficient transaction than going public and are more likely to offer lucrative valuations based on potential, vs. actual, performance.

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

To fairly assess a newcomer within weeks rather than months, it's critical for the manager to provide the right support, says Roger Chevalier, California - based management consultant and author of A Manager's Guide to Improving Workplace Performance.

Rather than repay his investors, however, CASPERSEN continued trading in options based on the performance of the S&P 500 Index.

Currently, 90 % of CEO pay is linked to company performance of three years or less and based largely on stock price, much of which owes more to market forces than management acumen.

Based on 40 years of recruiting and training more than twenty thousand recruiters and hiring managers on how to actually predict on - the - job performance, one problem always stands out:

The recently passed tax plan eliminates companies» ability to deduct performance - based bonuses to managers who are paid more than $ 1 million, so Netflix just decided to lump all cash payments into executives» salaries.

Uber considers adjusted earnings before taxes as a better indicator of its financial performance rather than net earnings based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, which include losses for accounting purposes.

www.huroncapital.com American Securities is in «advanced talks» to acquire Emerald Performance Materials LLC, a Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio - based specialty chemicals company, from Sun Capital Partners for more than $ 1 billion, according to Reuters.

This allows marketers to find them based on performance and ROI rather than who's available.»

At Mr. Cook's request, the 2011 RSU Award was modified in 2013 to put more than $ 123 million of the original grant date fair value of the award at risk, based on Apple's Relative TSR performance.

Mr Kershaw credited the performance to M&C's client base, which includes more local brands and is less reliant on global giants than WPP.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

Mutual funds are generally more tax inefficient than ETFs and, as a result, are typically more negatively impacted than ETFs when comparing performance based on post-tax returns rather than total returns.

All of our named executive officers (other than Larry and Sergey) received annual cash bonuses based on performance in 2014.

(New York, NY) March 24, 2010 — On Deck Capital (www.ondeck.com), a leading provider of small business financing solutions, announced today announced today that over $ 50 million of loans have now been made to more than 2,000 Main Street small businesses using its proprietary performance lending system which evaluates businesses based on electronic performance data rather than relying solely on the business owner's personal credit score.

For the individual serving as the chief executive officer of the Company at the end of the taxable year and for the individuals serving as officers of the Company or a subsidiary at the end of such year who are among the three highest compensated officers (other than the chief executive officer and chief financial officer) for proxy reporting purposes, Section 162 (m) of the Code limits the amount of compensation otherwise deductible by the Company and its subsidiaries for such year to $ 1,000,000 for each such individual except to the extent that such compensation is «performance - based compensation.»

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

One of the many surprising aspects of financial market performance over the past year has been the weak performance of the US dollar, which has fallen by close to 10 per cent on a trade weighted basis and by more than 10 per cent against the euro.

For example, in order to meet all 12 market capitalization milestones, Tesla will have to add approximately $ 600 billion to its market capitalization at the time of the grant of the 2018 CEO Performance Award, and in order to satisfy all eight revenue - based operational milestones, Tesla would have to increase revenue by more than $ 163 billion from its 2017 annual revenue of approximately $ 11.8 billion.

The authors begin by noting that while choosing managers on the basis of historical performance might make intuitive sense, «it takes an impractically long time to differentiate talented from untalented managers — far longer than the five years or so that many investors believe is sufficient.»

Comprising more than 20 % of the S&P 500 Index this year based on market capitalization, the Technology sector frequently drives the index's performance, and has generated roughly 150 % of the returns of any other single sector in 2017.

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

This continuous pricing and the ability to place limit orders — means the ETF's performance for any given time period is based largely on the market price return during the holding period, rather than on the ETF's net asset value (NAV)-- the value of the stocks held by the ETF.

In setting base salaries at higher than pre-financial crisis levels and reducing target and maximum annual incentive compensation opportunities from pre-financial crisis levels, the HRC intended to establish a more balanced relationship between fixed and variable annual compensation to reduce the focus on short - term performance and the potential related risks.

Stock options and stock appreciation rights with respect to no more than 8,000,000 shares of our common stock may be granted to any one individual in any one calendar year and the maximum «performance - based award» payable to any one individual under the 2014 Plan is 8,000,000 shares of stock or $ 5 million in the case of cash - based awards.

If somebody (excluding VCs) is truly able to help you more than others then reward them through performance - based warrants based on measurable success criteria.

on a pro forma basis, giving effect to (i) the automatic conversion of all of our outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock other than Series FP preferred stock into shares of Class B common stock and the conversion of Series FP preferred stock into shares of Class C common stock in connection with our initial public offering, (ii) stock - based compensation expense of approximately $ 1.1 billion associated with outstanding RSUs subject to a performance condition for which the service - based vesting condition was satisfied as of December 31, 2016 and which we will recognize on the effectiveness of our registration statement in connection with a qualifying initial public offering, as further described in Note 1 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus, (iii) the increase in accrued expenses and other current liabilities and an equivalent decrease in additional paid - in capital of $ 187.2 million in connection with the withholding tax obligations, based on $ 16.33 per share, which is the fair value of our common stock as of December 31, 2016, as we intend to issue shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock on a net basis to satisfy the associated withholding tax obligations, (iv) the net issuance of 7.6 million shares of Class A common stock and 5.5 million shares of Class B common stock that will vest and be issued from the settlement of such RSUs, (v) the issuance of the CEO award, as described below, and (vi) the filing and effectiveness of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation which will be in effect on the completion of this offering.

Because of the limitations of Internal Revenue Code Section 162 (m), we generally receive a federal income tax deduction for compensation paid to our chief executive officer and to certain other highly compensated officers only if the compensation is less than $ 1,000,000 per person during any fiscal year or is «performance - based» under Code Section 162 (m).

The pro forma consolidated balance sheet data gives effect to (i) the automatic conversion of all of our outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock other than Series FP preferred stock into shares of Class B common stock and the conversion of Series FP preferred stock into shares of Class C common stock in connection with our initial public offering, (ii) stock - based compensation expense of approximately $ 1.1 billion associated with outstanding RSUs subject to a performance condition for which the service - based vesting condition was satisfied as of December 31, 2016 and which we will recognize on the effectiveness of our registration statement in connection with this offering, as further described in Note 1 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus, (iii) the increase in accrued expenses and other current liabilities and an equivalent decrease in additional paid - in capital of $ 187.2 million in connection with the withholding tax obligations, based on $ 16.33 per share, which is the fair value of our common stock as of December 31, 2016, as we intend to issue shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock on a net basis to satisfy the associated withholding tax obligations, (iv) the net issuance of 7.6 million shares of Class A common stock and 5.5 million shares of Class B common stock that will vest and be issued from the settlement of such RSUs, (v) the issuance of the CEO award, as described below, and (vi) the filing and effectiveness of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation which will be in effect on the completion of this offering.

With respect to Awards granted to an Outside Director that are assumed or substituted for, if on the date of or following such assumption or substitution the Participant's status as a Director or a director of the successor corporation, as applicable, is terminated other than upon a voluntary resignation by the Participant (unless such resignation is at the request of the acquirer), then the Participant will fully vest in and have the right to exercise Options and / or Stock Appreciation Rights as to all of the Shares underlying such Award, including those Shares which would not otherwise be vested or exercisable, all restrictions on Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units will lapse, and, with respect to Awards with performance - based vesting, all performance goals or other vesting criteria will be deemed achieved at one hundred percent (100 %) of target levels and all other terms and conditions met.

Section 162 (m) of the Code imposes a $ 1.0 million cap on the compensation deduction that a public company may take in respect of compensation paid to our «covered employees» (which includes our Chief Executive Officer and our next three most highly compensated employees other than our Chief Financial Officer), but excludes from the calculation of amounts subject to this limitation any amounts that constitute «qualified performance - based compensation,» or «QPBC,» within the meaning of Section 162 (m) of the Code.

For more than 100 years, the cod fishery had used broad - based profit sharing to give the crews of ships incentives for their performance and teamwork.

Based on the limitations imposed by Code Section 162 (m), we generally may receive a federal income tax deduction for compensation paid to our Chief Executive Officer and to certain of our other highly compensated officers only if the compensation is less than $ 1,000,000 per person during any year or is «performance - based» under Code Section 162Based on the limitations imposed by Code Section 162 (m), we generally may receive a federal income tax deduction for compensation paid to our Chief Executive Officer and to certain of our other highly compensated officers only if the compensation is less than $ 1,000,000 per person during any year or is «performance - based» under Code Section 162based» under Code Section 162 (m).

In reducing base salaries from 2009 levels (but maintaining them at higher than pre-financial crisis levels), the HRC intended to establish a more balanced relationship between fixed and variable annual compensation to reduce the focus on short - term performance and the potential related risks.

Both claimed the decision was based on location, rather than business performance.

Our rule - based trading system forces us to focus much more on the performance of leading stocks, rather than the price action of the main stock market indexes.

«The Impact of Financial Advisors on Individual Investor Portfolio Performance», based on a subset of these observations encompassing more than 193,418 monthly common stock return observations for 5,661 investors, finds that:

SMP's compensation committee uses EVA because «the principles of an EVA program have a better statistical correlation with the creation of value for stockholders than a cash incentive program based on performance measures.»

These positive earnings drivers were more than offset by the combined impact of several factors, including increased energy - related provisions for credit losses, a 17 basis point decline in net interest margin, moderate growth of non-interest expenses, the addition of acquisition - related contingent consideration fair value changes reflecting performance within CWB Maxium Financial (CWB Maxium), higher preferred share dividends, and the 20 % increase to CWB's income tax rate in Alberta.

investment management professionals (43 %) receive more than half of their compensation based on their annual performance; similarly, nearly 80 % of investment management professionals surveyed have less than half of their compensation based on longer - term performance measures.

In addition, the structure of compensation incentives in the investment management industry further encourages the short - term focus; a surprisingly large number of investment professionals have less than half of their compensation based on longer - term performance measures.

As disclosed in the proxy statement filed in advance of its 2006 shareholder meeting, in 2005 the Devon board paid CEO J. Larry Nichols a $ 1.1 million salary, a $ 2.2 million bonus (based on a non-formulaic assessment of performance), and stock and options with an aggregate grant - date value of more than $ 7 million (none of which was tied to performance measures).

(ii) Any accrued but unpaid Annual Bonus earned with respect to any fiscal year ending on or preceding the Termination Date («Earned Bonus»); plus for the fiscal year in which the Termination Date occurs, a pro rata Annual Bonus based on actual performance for the entire performance period and calculated and paid at the end of the performance period, at the same time as continuing executives are paid their bonuses (but no later than March 15 of the year following the year with respect to which the bonus is calculated)(«Pro-Rata Bonus»);

Similarly, I expect that in the event of a general bull market in stocks, the fund will not shine so brightly in terms of relative performance., The math of investing would favour the fund, however, over several bull and bear market cycles because, on a percentage basis, lost dollars are simply harder to replace than gained dollars are to lose.