He notes that the company has had 7 consecutive quarters of 100%-plus revenue growth, and 8 consecutive quarters of 100%-plus corporate customer growth, plus close to 20% EBITDA margins for two years.
Corporate greed plus out-and-out fraud is another, especially when human lives and financial well-being hang in the balance.
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Even if you do take those profits out, you'll still be better off--paying a 15% corporate tax plus a 15% dividend rate--which works out to a combined 27.75%.
It's simply a summation of a country's top rates on personal and corporate income, plus value-added taxes and wealth and social welfare taxes.
Earlier this year, Mr Lerach and Mr Monks settled a suit against Sprint, a troubled telecoms company, that included striking changes to the firm's corporate-governance practices, plus the departure of Sprint's top two executives.
The debate over repatriation taxes, which can shrink overseas cash hoards by some 35% if U.S. corporations try to put that money to work, has raged for years and is not going away given the trillion-plus sitting on corporate balance sheets.
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Gross total debt is the sum of consumer, corporate, state and municipal debt plus U.S. government debt including that portion held by Federal agencies and trusts.
She also seeks out candidates with strong interviews and leadership potential, a plus in both classroom and corporate realms.
This plus a wave of LBOs and corporate raiders like Kirk Kerkorian looks likely to continue to drive a wedge between bonds and equities, which will cause yet more pain to hedge funds that are already believed to have lost billions on positions that required stocks and bonds to behave similarly.
Bankers - particularly juniors working in corporate finance - are famous for working 12-plus hours a day, including weekends.
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When you buy a corporate bond, you buy, in essence, the risk-free rate (Treasuries) plus something extra to compensate for the risk that you won't get your money back.
Investors might get a bit of extra oomph from their investment were their borrowers to get upgraded, but the downside for buyers of corporate debt is generally much greater than the upside, compared with equities: you get the money back plus a bit of interest if you're lucky, and if you're unlucky you don't.
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