Sentences with phrase «underlying business performance»

Our underlying business performance was even stronger than our reported results imply.

There was a considerable amount of information to be assimilated and review to give satisfaction to investors, not only as to the business» growth potential, but additionally due consideration of the underlying business performance, which on the face of it reflected a business in transition.

So our focus is on the underlying business performance and how they are tracking relative to our expectations when we bought the shares.

Over a period of anything less than a few years, underlying business performance — which is what we're focused on — is drowned out by market «noise».

It is presented here to provide greater understanding of the underlying business performance of the Group's operations attributable to the owners of Rio Tinto.

It is a subtle difference, because share prices tend to be highly correlated with the underlying business performance, but it is a very important one.

Ultimately, underlying business performance is almost certain to hold a major influence over a corresponding stock's long - term performance.

Not exact matches

We believe that adjusted diluted net income per share, adjusted net income, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating income margin and adjusted EBITDA are useful measures for investors to review, because they provide a consistent measure of the underlying financial results of our ongoing business and, in our management's view, allow for a supplemental comparison against historical results and expectations for future performance.

We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP, but believe that certain non-GAAP financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying business trends and performance of our ongoing operations and are useful for period - over-period comparisons of those operations.

I am particularly pleased to see the underlying growth that we anticipated in our SES Networks business coming through, fuelled by strong performance in our aeronautical Mobility and Government business segments.

Obviously, besides immediately abandoning its propaganda campaign, the Chinese government should reassure the global business community with concrete, honest, realistic, and market - based solutions that address the underlying pathologies of China's poor economic performance: massive debt, endemic overcapacity, and an economic system that channels low - cost capital into inefficient state - owned enterprises at the expense of private entrepreneurs and consumers.

Management believes that organic growth is an important metric for measuring the operating performance of our business as it helps identify underlying business trends, without distortion from the effects of FX movements.

While management believes that these non-GAAP adjusted financial measures provide useful supplemental information to investors regarding the underlying performance of the company's business operations, investors are reminded to consider these non-GAAP measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, financial performance measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Maple Leaf says positive trends and performance in its underlying business were offset by market conditions in pork markets which were materially below a year ago.

MCA providers typically give more weight to the underlying performance of a business than the owner's personal credit scores.

We believe it is useful to exclude non-cash charges, such as depreciation and amortization and share - based compensation expenses, from our Adjusted EBITDA because the amount of such expenses in any specific period may not directly correlate to the underlying performance of our business operations.

Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to assist in comparing the Company's performance on a consistent basis for purposes of business decision making by removing the impact of certain items that management believes do not directly reflect the Company's underlying operations.

«We believe that the market performance of a share of common stock, over an extended period of time, is likely to follow the business performance of the underlying company» Lou Simpson

Ms Holgate said sales to China had been very strong, but even if they were stripped out, the underlying performance of the business was still very solid, up 18 per cent when the China factor was removed.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Real equity returns fluctuate with operational performance of the underlying business, and the market pricing for these securities reflects this fact.

Share prices move around for all sorts of reasons, many of them unrelated to the underlying performance of the business (Rob Fitzherbert wrote a wonderful feature article, Learn to be a better investor, for The Intelligent Investor on how this makes for a difficult learning environment).

The big lesson here is to not focus on the stock price but to focus on performance of the underlying business.

Your actual performance will depend on your personal needs and which strategy we implement for you, but this approach helps to align the client's perception of risk with that of the underlying portfolio over the course of the changing business cycle.

According to Graham, Investing consists equally of three elements: You must thoroughly analyze a company, and the soundness of its underlying businesses, before you buy its stock; you must deliberately protect yourself against serious losses; you must aspire to «adequate,» not extraordinary, performance.

I think that the management is tied to the underlying performance of the business and this is one the big differences between Buffett and Graham.

It looked dumb on current performance, but if you look at investing as a business asking what level of surplus cash flows the underlying investments will throw off, it was an easy choice, because bonds were offering a much higher future yield than stocks.