Sentences with phrase «than shareholders of»

I suspect that shareholders of a consolidator in the sector might ultimately end up better off than shareholders of acquired companies — perhaps that offer possibilities?

Not exact matches

He saw the PC mogul wading into crowds of shareholders and signing autographs at the company's annual meeting, noting how a larger - than - life CEO could inspire loyalty and garner loads of free publicity.

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

Tencent lost more than $ 51 billion in market value in two days last week on news of largest shareholder Nasper Inc's 2 percent stake reduction for $ 9.8 billion, and also management's warning of margin pressure.

Warren Buffett «s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (brk - a) has become Bank of America Corp's (bac) largest shareholder by exercising its right to acquire 700 million shares at a steep discount, more than tripling an investment it made six years ago.

«Today, companies have to think about more than just their shareholders, they have to think about the health of their community,» Scott says.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. / BOSTON, May 2 - Goldman Sachs Group Inc leaders said more than 87 percent of shares were voted in favor of its executive pay at its annual shareholder meeting, and that a stock plan for employees was approved by more than 65 percent of votes cast.

Those include, prominently, himself: Dorsey owns more than 21 million shares of Twitter, making him one of the biggest individual shareholders.

Shareholders who held stock on the date of Bertolini's announcement and still hold it today have seen the value of their original stake more than double (compared with the more modest 34 % gain for the S&P 500 during the same period).

Apple shareholder Ross Gerber said on Thursday that Apple sold a «perfectly fine» number of phones during the quarter, but earnings were a bit less than he was hoping for.

Further, leaders of businesses that produce products that are harmful or dangerous (i.e. weapons, tobacco, etc.) aren't likely to be thinking about more than meeting the expectations of their shareholders.

«And if enough jurisdictions do it, then the shareholders of America will realize that they've got fewer after - tax profits to divvy up than continue to pay CEOs outrageous salaries.»

Apple is now paying out more cash in the form of dividends to its shareholders than any other major publicly traded company in the U.S.

An appointment of Woods to the top Exxon job could signal the company's board wants to continue to focus on cash generation in order to keep boosting shareholder payouts, rather than focus on pricey development projects, analysts have said.

Even Viacom (VIAB) has seen better than expected results, despite being embroiled in a power struggle between CEO Philippe Dauman and controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone — and despite criticism for its lackluster stable of fading brands like Nickelodeon and Comedy Central.

«I also discovered indeed, that it's easier to get rid of shareholders by disinviting than to attract new ones.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

Shares in Mungana Gold Mines rose by more than 25 per cent after the company announced it would move ahead with its North Queensland zinc strategy, following shareholder support for the $ 15 million acquisition of the Chilagoe base metal assets from the liquidators of Kagara, originally announced in December last year.

I explained that the massive fees levied by a variety of «helpers» would leave their clients - again in aggregate - worse off than if the amateurs simply invested in an unmanaged low - cost index fund,» he recapped, writing in Berkshire's annual shareholder letter.

Disney shareholders lost their case but the final ruling set a new bar for directors when approving these kinds of exit packages: «If a director acts with conscious disregard — in other words, a looking away — rather than a deliberate intent to violate his duties, he can still be held liable for acting in bad faith,» plaintiffs» attorney Steven G. Schullman told the New York Times back in 2006.

EMC is no doubt hoping that Glass Lewis's endorsement of the deal will be enough to persuade undecided EMC shareholders who are skeptical that a newly combined company would be able to better compete in a fast - changing technology landscape than either Dell or EMC by themselves.

These findings echo those of the 1994 classic «Built to Last,» in which Jim Collins and Jerry Porras reveal that over a more than 60 - year period, purpose - guided companies earned six times more for their shareholders than their narrowly profit - focused competitors.

Qualcomm said on Tuesday it had entered into agreements with nine NXP stockholders, who collectively own more than 28 percent of NXP, including top shareholder Soroban Capital Partners LP and second - largest Elliott.

Tencent now owns more than 8 million shares in Tesla as of March 24, the carmaker said, making the Chinese company one of its biggest shareholders.

The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.

Looking out on the next decade, Jobs may well be asking himself a variation of that very question: After creating more than $ 150 billion in shareholder wealth, transforming movies, telecom, music, and computing (and profoundly influencing the worlds of retail and design), what should Steve Jobs do next?

«Today's action by the board was the culmination of a blatant bait and switch, essentially robbing loyal employees, including the more than 200 early founding Uber employees and advisors, of their hard earned shareholder rights worth billions in value,» they said.

Long delayed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Title III was the most controversial provision of the JOBS Act because it allowed non-accredited investors — generally defined as individuals with less than $ 1 million in assets who earn less than $ 200,000 per year — to invest in private companies as shareholders.

At the bank's 2016 meeting in Florida, only three of the board's 12 directors received more than 90 percent of shareholders»...

We share Martin's concern that option - based compensation may drive destruction rather than creation of shareholder value.

Elon Musk is the largest shareholder of both companies and some critics are wondering whether the move is intended more to save SolarCity than create a logical fusion of interests.

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If the maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry's ice cream had a protective mindset for incorporating in the Netherlands, it would not have sought to cancel existing Dutch preference shares that allow certain shareholders a greater voice than others, Dekkers said.

The article's author, Steve Denning, dissects the main theme of Martin's book, which is that the current practices around maximizing shareholder value actually do more harm than good:

Buying back stock is, for example, Warren Buffett's preferred way of returning cash to shareholders (rather than paying a dividend).

Buffett is right that, for most of his stock - picking history, shareholders have likely been better off leaving their money in his care rather than siphoning the cash into their own accounts by way of dividends: Since 1965, Berkshire Hathaway stock has delivered annualized returns of nearly 21 %, more than double the S&P 500.

These rules apply to all shareholders who own more than two percent of the corporation's stock and are employees of the corporation.

The topic arose at Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder meeting in Omaha, where Buffett talked about his struggles to find ways to deploy the company's enormous hoard of more than $ 90 billion in cash, at a time when it has been difficult to find worthy investments at an attractive price.

It is good for the investing public to know that the company is making decisions about things like dividends with the best interests of shareholders in mind, rather than the best interests of the CEO.

And it shows Harris and two other directors — Louis Lataif and Donald Resnick — were named to the board with the approval of less than 40 % of the eligible voting shareholders.

At today's prices, industry forecasts of three million barrels per day by 2020 are likely to underestimate production by a bit, but the real kicker will be on the value of that production to all concerned — governments, via taxes and royalties, and shareholders will all suffer much lower returns from this development than they would have expected less than a year ago if prices stay where they are today.

Financial group Skandia was rocked by revelations of huge bonuses to executives more than a decade ago, while telecom group Ericsson faced shareholder protests in 2007.

GPS Online.com Limited managing director Bob Angel said the company received applications for more than double the number of shares being offered in the prospectus to non-Telco Australia Limited shareholders.

And regardless of ownership claims, lots of people reject the idea that shareholders have any special role here, or that their voices should count for more than the voices of other stakeholder groups.

Boards are empowered to protect shareholders, but many shareholders have become sympathetic to activists because they believe the system has inherent conflicts of interest; that directors are more interested in collecting paychecks and preserving their status quo than in exercising their fiduciary duty to shareholders.

Icahn remains the largest Herbalife shareholder, owning a little more than 18 % of the company.

SolarCity shares were up more than 1 percent, and shares of Tesla Motors were up slightly after shareholders for the two companies voted Thursday to approve a merger.

This is especially true when shareholder faith rests more with a charismatic leader's vision than with the strength of the organization itself.

David Geffen, the third founder of the company, ceased to be listed as a shareholder in 2012, as he didn't have more than 5 % of the company's stock — the threshold at which investors are required to disclose their stake.

He calls it «conscious capitalism,» a mode of doing business that attempts to create value for all stakeholders — employees, customers, community, shareholders — rather than sublimating the needs of the first three to those of the last.