(1) Several selling VCs were also Google investors; one sat on Google's board.
(2) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(3) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(4) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(5) After two placings of shares with institutional investors which began two years ago, the government has been selling shares by “dribbling” them into the market.
(6) We know that from the rapid take up of crowd funded renewables investors are actively looking for a more secure option.
(7) After contributions from other investors, she estimates the fund will have between $80m to $100m for projects in infrastructure, health, manufacturing and education.
(8) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
(9) Tomorrow the courts are expected to sign off a $97.5m payment by the company to its shareholders, after investors took a class action lawsuit against the company.
(10) Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go , the latest mobile gaming phenomenon.
(11) Obasanjo was in the UK to promote investment in Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa's most populous country and its second biggest economy, not to mention one of the world's most promising emerging destinations for international investors.
(12) Cable, once a leading critic of City speculation, insists the shares will go to responsible investors.
(13) Osborne sought to turn the crisis to his advantage, however, telling parliament that falls in bond yields – the interest rate the government pays on its debts – were a "huge vote of confidence" by international investors in the coalition's plans to repair the public finances.
(14) Cable says that institutional investors would have been inspecting Royal Mail for some time, adding that it's a standard length document for an IPO of this type.
(15) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
(16) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
(17) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
(18) Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio is widely seen as sustainable, at least in the short term, as its bonds are bought up in large part by domestic investors.
(19) Investors recognised the true horror of Europe’s toxic bank debts, and the restrictions imposed by the single currency.
(20) The decision to split up News Corp followed the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which focused the attention of investors on the company's newspaper assets, which are far less profitable than its film and TV businesses.
Stockholder
Definition:
(n.) One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
Example Sentences:
(1) Existing stockholders, including the two founders, are cutting the number of shares they are selling in the IPO.
(2) Companies could spread the wealth, either giving it to stockholders or pumping it into the economy – wouldn't that be a nice change from what we hear about the unevenness of the economy, and companies hoarding cash while households struggle?
(3) While Zuckerberg's deputies received new shares last year, Facebook's compensation committee decided not to award more to the chief executive because "his existing equity ownership position sufficiently aligns his interests with those of our stockholders".
(4) Motive scores (needs for Achievement, Affiliation, and Power) of the chief executive officers of the nation's 50 largest industrial firms were determined using content analysis of letters to stockholders contained in the firms' annual reports.
(5) Today's report comes at a time when our business has never been stronger and we continue to demonstrate strong operational excellence focused on returning maximum value to all of our stockholders.
(6) And throughout it all, too many in our national media ... their corporate owners ... and their stockholders ... act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators.
(7) Can the Trust show us the evidence that its negotiations as a stockholder of Shell, BP and the other fossil fuel companies are the best route towards the rapid reduction of carbon emissions?
(8) Jim Payne, MoPub chief executive, and other MoPub stockholders, $667m 14,791,464 shares The mobile advertising exchange was bought by Twitter in September in an all-shares deal.
(9) Richard Gonzalez, AbbVie’s chairman and chief executive, said: “Although the strategic rationale of combining our two companies remains strong, the agreed upon valuation is no longer supported as a result of the changes to the tax rules and we did not believe it was in the best interests of our stockholders to proceed.” Shire waived a requirement for AbbVie to give it three days’ notice before its board meeting so that the US company could make its position clear.
(10) The board is confident that continuing to execute its strategic plan will create significantly more value for the company and its stockholders and is superior to any proposal that 21st Century Fox is in a position to offer,” it said.
(11) Can the trust show us the evidence that its negotiations as a stockholder of Shell, BP and the other fossil fuel companies are the best route towards the rapid reduction of carbon emissions?
(12) That’s the center of a whole movement called “corporate governance” where stockholders try to get companies to run themselves better, or at least more profitably.
(13) "Political rights won't be violated but will resemble those of a small stockholder in a giant enterprise," he wrote.
(14) The question is whether James, his father, the company and its stockholders believe that is fair enough in the light of Ofcom's conclusions.
(15) That is so even though the voter is also the taxpayer, who also has yet another alias as the selling stockholder in this venture – and thus a powerful reason for wanting to know what is going on with their investment.
(16) "Today's report comes at a time when our business has never been stronger and we continue to demonstrate strong operational excellence focused on returning maximum value to all of our stockholders.
(17) Lagardère, a conglomerate whose interests span publishing and airport retail, released a statement criticising the terms of the tie-up, in which EADS shareholders will emerge with 60% of the business while BAE stockholders take 40%.
(18) Still, there remains a question of whether the offshore tax holiday was ever really a plausible corporate problem, or one hyped by CEOs as an excuse to inflate their company's coffers and their stockholders' wallets rather than invest in new initiatives.
(19) "The founders of the Ponzi Victims Coalition are dedicated to pursuing legislative and litigative actions to mitigate the devastating effects these schemes have had upon fundholders, pensioners, stockholders, and all investors – direct and indirect – in these tainted investment instruments," it says.
(20) The company responded that it would oppose the resolution, which it said is not in the best interest of its stockholders, according to Natasha Lamb, Arjuna Capital’s director of equity research and shareholder engagement.