It is important to note these markets received more than their fair share of price depreciation after the market peaked in 2006.
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Moreover, in most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s.
Richardson Electronics ( RELL), which makes electronic components, ranks first with net cash as a percentage of share price of 56%.
The drop in Thorntons' share price following the release of its trading results follows a more than quadrupling of its share price since the beginning of last year on rising hopes of a turnaround.
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Companies buy back stock for a variety of reasons from earnings-per-share enhancement to lack of share price growth.
Since uranium is 20 times cheaper to find than oil, (in terms of finding cost's share of sale price), the current price run-up has already spawned hundreds of exploration companies, where there were only a handful a decade ago.
Clinton began yesterday with a New Hampshire share price of 8 and Democratic nomination price of 27.
Not only is Euro Disney worth around 350 million euros as of Thursday's share price of 9 euro cents, it's also 1.9 billion euros in debt.
Would it be a terrible surprise to learn that, having lost around 60% of share price since the beginning of the year, Research in Motion (RIM) is now susceptible to activist shareholders?
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The company is also reported to be holding out for an offer of about 50 euros per share, 35% higher than Commerzbank's current share price of about 37 euros.
The valuation of Xstrata translates to a share price of 1, 290p - compared with the 1, 100p at which shares were trading before news of the deal emerged last week.
Pfizer immediately stopped testing the drug, torcetrapib, the first of a series of setbacks that have caused the share price of the world's largest drug maker to slump 10% over the past 12 months.
Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) immediately stopped testing the drug, torcetrapib, the first of a series of setbacks that have caused the share price of the world's largest drug maker to slump 10% over the past 12 months.
After months of declining share price and reports of internal trouble at Zynga, the San Francisco-based social gaming company laid off more than 5% of its workforce on Tuesday and said it will end 13 games.
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None of this has had any lasting effect on the share price of Sturm Ruger, the only pure handgun play on the market.
Much of this good news is already baked into the share price of Manchester United, whose investors include George Soros, but it suggests that European football teams will have a better chance of earning sustainable profits.
The bid represents a premium of around 27.0% to the last traded share price of 43.72 euros, which is better than the 20.0% premium that the family was rumored to be willing to pay.
There are countless studies of mergers and acquisitions showing that in the days surrounding acquisition announcements the share price of the buyer usually declines.
With the advantage of hindsight, we can see that Best Buy did not deserve the share price of 16 times earnings it was demanding at this time last year.
They have signed two-year deals but will have to pay 10% of their share of their auction price to their counties for releasing them for the first part of the season.
This week, Canadian securities regulators announced a formal investigation of share-price action at Interoil, whose stocks dropped 40% at the start of the week, its biggest drop since January 2006, without a news or earnings catalyst.
But this approach runs the risk of the share price declining in the first days or weeks of trading.
In spite of its plummeting share price, Facebook has oodles of cash from its recent stockmarket flotation.
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The stock has re-gained about 35% of its share price after seeing it drop in the first half of 2010 after four consecutive quarters of profit drops.
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Yet the lion's share of oil-price weakness is a by-product of an increasingly shaky global economy.
Whether buy-backs should boost the share price of the average company is another tricky question.
The share price of Jongleurs' British franchise holder, Regent Inns, has recently fallen steeply.
The Shinawatras sold out with the share price of Shin Corp at an 11-year high.
Prosecutors have appealed against a judgment in June that acquitted Lone Star of charges of share-price manipulation.
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Mr. Usmanov's stake in Apple follows a decline in the share price of the U.S. technology giant.
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