Sentences with phrase «what shareholders of the company»

Tangible book value is what shareholders of the company can expect to receive if the company were to go bankrupt and takes out items such as goodwill that no one buys when assets are liquidated.

Not exact matches

Although on balance these total amounts may be financially immaterial to shareholders, they may represent only a small part of what a company spends to influence political outcomes in the United States or here in Canada.

First, public companies have an «agency problem,» the inherent conflict of interest between executives wanting to create wealth for themselves and doing what's best for shareholders.

He was repeatedly grilled by a shareholder about what he saw is a misalignment of interests with the board and management who owned few shares in the company.

In response to a shareholder question about what could be done to speed up the glacial pace of adoption of electric car production by other car companies, Musk said he was «playing with doing something fairly significant on this front which would be kind of controversial with respect to Tesla's patents.»

Here's what the structure looks like: T - Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom will own 42 % of the combined carrier, Sprint parent company SoftBank will own 27 %, and public shareholders get the remaining 31 %.

In what is perhaps the company's most valuable public vote of confidence, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett called AmEx an «excellent business» with managers that are «talented and shareholder - oriented» in his 2016 annual report to shareholders.

LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO, April 25 - Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000..

Employee stock options align the interests of key players in a company with what's needed to add shareholder value, and that's beneficial.

Kullman didn't comment on the DuPont - Dow merger specifically, but she said that deals in which companies are put together only to be broken up — which is what is happening in the DuPont - Dow transaction — are the product of short - term thinking, and not what's best for long - term shareholders or the company.

«I'm proud of what I created at American Apparel and am confident that, as its largest shareholder, I will have a strong relationship with the company in the years ahead,» he said in a statement.

Those have long been fun theoretical questions; for myself, I'm a big fan of the notion that companies should be able to choose exactly what rights go in the bundle that shareholders get, and what level of care and catering they promise to shareholders.

LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000.

3 But if you subscribe to the simple activist - shareholder model, in which activists (1) identify underperforming companies, (2) buy up those companies» (cheap) stock, (3) push the companies to improve, and then (4) reap (a portion of) the rewards of that improvement, what do you think about this development?

And so, I think there is very little risk in that regard but I mean, if there was something fully unanticipated that would happen, I would say that as a company, we would be fully prepared to do what was ever necessary and in the best interest of our company and our shareholders.

The basic responsibility of directors is to exercise their business judgment to act in what they reasonably believe to be the best interests of the Company and its shareholders.

For auditors of public interest entities, such as banks, insurance companies and listed companies, the committee agreed that audit firms would have to provide shareholders and investors with a detailed understanding of what the auditor did and an overall assurance of the accuracy of the company's accounts.

«As long as you're doing something that doesn't harm the value of the company, accelerating the benefits to shareholders is exactly what creating value is about.

Its often seemed odd to me how Buffett lef these partners of his come along for a free ride... by running a company not fund... guess that's capitalism, that's shareholders... they were entitled to the slice they left with him from his partnership / hedgie days if my memory serves, but you have to say — what a deal!

And with a payout ratio of 47.8 %, you're looking at what's basically a «perfect balance» between retaining earnings for company growth and returning cash to shareholders.

Asked what he would do if he was approached by a buyer for MDC, he said, «As the CEO of MDC, I work for the shareholders, and ultimately the shareholders and the board will determine if a bid is made for the company and fair value is being paid.

It is possible that the announcement of the partnership with Panasonic, along with the rumored unveiling of the solar roof on Oct. 28, will look to showcase what the merged company is capable of in advance of the upcoming shareholder vote to approve the proposed transaction.

After the close of the deal, Yahoo shareholders will still own shares in what is left of the company, essentially an investment fund with two holdings: a 15 percent stake, worth about $ 32 billion based on its recent share price, in the Chinese internet company Alibaba; and a 35.5 percent stake, worth about $ 8.7 billion, in Yahoo Japan.

Further, in an effort to encourage transparency and responsiveness to AGM voting, companies will need to explain what action has been taken to consult with shareholders when more than 20 % of votes have been cast against the board's recommendation.

If a company has proven that it can average a high return on total capital within the majority of its business operations (averaging, say, 15 % + per year for many years) then the company can reinvest what would be dividends, and thus save the shareholder tax.

«In terms of what companies are doing wrong: First, underestimating the knowledge and sophistication of institutional investors... Second, misinterpreting the shareholder engagement process... Third, paying big bonuses on operating metrics when shareholders have lost money.

As Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) prepares itself for its annual shareholders» meeting on Wednesday, the main topic of discussion among analysts and investors is whether the company will go for a stock split or not and if yes, what will be the ratio?

In the letter, the company said that «succumbing to political pressure to do what is expedient» would fly «in the face of our fiduciary responsibility as stewards of the company for the benefit of shareholders.»

LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO (Reuters)- Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000.

In a Glass Lewis Proxy Talk held April 17, 2014, Anne Simpson of CalPERS and Michael Garland of the New York City Comptroller's Office discussed why they think shareholders should vote against the re-election of four Duke Energy Corporation directors for what they believe to be a failure of the directors to fulfill their obligations of risk oversight as members of a committee overseeing health, safety, and environmental compliance at the company.

The showdown also marks the first time in recent memory shareholders of a major oil and gas company have been given a choice of directors between what the company wants and what the dissident group wants (it is pushing for four of its nominees to be voted to the board).

In its view, the company's repeated strategy shifts, missed expectations and what it characterizes as «undue optimism» have resulted in an erosion of management credibility, and by extension, shareholder value at the storied Wall Street firm.

But depriving three big brokerage firms of allocations seems to be a little at odds with what the Treasury Department, the company's biggest shareholder, had hoped to achieve.

This came after an exhaustive due diligence process where Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and junior partner Rhone Capital, and rival bidder TPG Capital, investigated the inner workings of the company but couldn't pay what the company's major institutional shareholders wanted.

(And then think of the companies who own abattoirs, and companies like Kraft or Coles or Woolworths and what their shareholders and executives earn...)

If you need to take over a company in order to remove bad management, what does that imply about the effectiveness of corporate oversight and governance by shareholders?

The board of directors of Las Vegas - based Wynn Resorts is facing mounting lawsuits from shareholders — including the NYS pension fund — who allege they breached their fiduciary duties when they ignored what has been described as a longstanding pattern of sexual abuse and harassment by the company's founder, Steve Wynn.

And what the discussion paper is that we're talking about is looking at the various options by which the owners of companies — the shareholders — can exercise more effective control.

It's written in a language pretty close to English, with very little finance - speak, and is meant to be something close to what the president of the company would say as an introductory speech at the company's annual shareholders meeting.

For Poirier, the key message was that R&D groups have a mandate of innovation and discovery, whereas the marketing division's mandate is to do what is necessary to sell the drug and provide profits for the company shareholders.

Or, in another, less accurate but more interesting way of thinking about it, it is what the brand is worth to its shareholders — the shareholders, in this case, being not necessarily the owners of the company, but the consumers who use the brand.

There's the explosion of for - profit charter school companies that run what are supposed to be public schools that serve students and communities not out of state corporations and their shareholders.

This is just another example of what happens when companies loose site of what's really important and just worry about the bottom line and the almighty shareholders.

The dividend payout ratio is a simple financial calculation that looks at what percentage of a company's net income is used to pay its dividends to shareholders.

Assuming the company decides not to pay a dividend to the shareholders (so the shareholders can reinvest the money themselves), financial managers within Pfizer must identify new projects that offer a higher rate of return than what they could get if they simply invested the money in the financial market (this being the opportunity cost of capital).

To reiterate what we said in our January 6, 2009 letter and have repeated numerous times during our discussions with management, we believe that any action other than the immediate dissolution and liquidation of the Company is an irresponsible waste of corporate assets and will result in a severe impairment of shareholder value.

Furthermore, if upon further analysis one could find that this company in fact generates an extraordinary amount of cash flow that inflows through the business, one could attempt a proxy fight and offer all the current shareholders a premium to what the company is proposing.

Networth is the portion of a company's assets that the shareholders own, as opposed to what they've borrowed.

Even if one company happens to reduce or eliminate their payout to shareholders, a properly diversified investor should still receive more annual income as the increases from the rest of the portfolio offset what is lost.

And with a payout ratio of 47.8 %, you're looking at what's basically a «perfect balance» between retaining earnings for company growth and returning cash to shareholders.