The bad news is that even when all of the financial-crisis overhang subsides and the economy is thriving, it is unlikely that banks will be able to engage in the level of leverage that created outsize profits and stock valuations of the bubble days.
On top of Nasser's cut of those profits he owns 3% of Polaroid stock, purchased in 2003 for a "nominal" amount.
Apple shares are dropped for the third consecutive session Monday, as investors continue to take some of the fat profits the stock has generated in 2012.
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However, all that stuff was a whopping predictor of higher sales, profits and stock price two years out.
In the first scheme, a UBS Securities executive is accused of tipping off two traders to upcoming UBS stock research upgrades and downgrades, sharing the profits of trading on that nonpublic material information.
Does your brokerage pass along to you any of the profits it gets from its stock loan department?
Most senior traders of this type were paid a percentage of the profits they made, with deferred compensation usually comprising a mix of cash and stock paid out over three years.
Right now, Apple hands only a small amount of its profits to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks.
But, corporations appear to have adjusted to a plodding economy by cutting costs enough to be on their way to reporting record profits, driving stock prices to within reach of their highs hit before the Great Recession.
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Likewise, the company reported profits for the quarter of 52 cents a share excluding stock-based compensation expense, above the Street at 46 cents.
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These objectives usually include goals for such things as profits, stock price, market share and the success of mergers.
Adjusted earnings missed estimates but rising profits and the prospects of a strong offshore market helped the stock rally.
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It paid most of the profits to its employee-owners, whose stock had to be resold to the company upon death.
But with falling profits and plummeting stock, and having hastened the end of the desktop PC era, Steve Jobs has put Apple again in a precarious position.
Come to think of it, the same thing happened in 2000 when a flood of investors borrowed on their tech stock paper profits, only to see their portfolios melt when the tech bubble burst.
In the 1990s the popularity contest on Wall Street had people buying Sun Microsystems not because they wanted to get a share of a firm's profits but because they wanted a stock that other people wanted.
In the 1990s the popularity contest on Wall Street had people buying Sun Microsystems not because they wanted to get a share of a company's profits but because they wanted a stock that other people wanted.
Reducing the budget deficit would increase the rate of growth in the economy, increase corporate profits, buttress the stock market.
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For example, the current stock prices of MSFT and ADI imply those companies profits will decline permanently by 10% or more.
However, in the 1990s, the return of a booming economy allowed government spending cut-backs without harming the economy, which combined with a big surge in tax revenues from rising corporate profits, and capital gains taxes created by the explosive stock market of the 1990s, not only produced a balanced budget, but several years of large budget surpluses.
So, you want to be alert to the performance in January to use the strength, take some profits, and also as a sign of continued strength going forward with the stock market.
Yet the stock has halved since then, following three years of stagnating profits.
The current stock prices of CHBT, SB and SRDX imply those companies profits will decline permanently by 50% or more.
Until this week, signs of slow but steady economic growth and record profits for big companies had propelled stock-market indexes to all-time highs.
Unlike many in the biotech realm, a handful of companies dealing in molecular diagnostics have done well, with good profits and stock prices.
In addition, Jain and Kranson note, GDP takes into account the value of goods and services produced in a country, but not the amount of profits those sales are generating and profits are really what drives stock prices.
The value of our stock holdings dropped so much in recent years, so our profits have been badly affected.
The slightest stumble in high growth rates can lead to enormous changes in value at fast-moving companies, since today's stock prices are highly sensitive to projections of long-term future profits.
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Range is one of the few natural-gas plays to have gone up over the past year, but its profits are so depressed that the stock is trading at a triple-digit multiple of earnings.
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Until last month, a stock-exchange listing in Japan required a minimum of two years' profits, ruling out almost all young companies.
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