Then it was noticed that a diversified portfolio of shares was a lot less risky than most people thought and delivered superior returns over the long term.
The wife stood a good chance of collecting a lot of his stock and of using those shares to insist on a board seat.
Did they, for instance, hand back to the underwriter some of the profits from selling the shares, by doing a lot of commission-paying business shortly afterwards?
Valuation measures that adjust for this, by using a ten-year average of profits, make shares look a lot less appealing.
Today ten thousand day traders will pile into Herbalife (NYSE: HLF) because Carl Icahn, celebrated champion of Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), bought a lot of Herbalife shares and declared them cheap.
Until more facts are known and some of the legal uncertainties are resolved, potential investors should recognize that buying Goldman shares is a lot like the derivative transaction at the heart of the SEC case: It's a speculative bet.
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So some of them will want to unload a lot of their Apple shares.
Prior to the broad market July advance, shares of Walgreen had been under a lot of pressure.
Jones, a principal at Sand Hill Insights in Menlo Park, California, says his preference as an investor is for Apple to buy back its shares a lot of them.
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My guess is that the shares are now in the hands of a lot of arbitrageurs and the fast money crowd.
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And a lot more shares of insiders will be eligible to be sold in coming months, potentially depressing the stock price further.
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Bought back a lot of shares, stabilized their core business, and sold a big chunk of patents to Microsoft (MSFT) so they could return more cash to shareholders.
Before the Internet bubble burst, such deals were a common way for small tech companies to raise capital without issuing a lot of potentially dilutive shares.
As far as I can tell, no one else in the company shares that belief, and there is a lot of pretty compelling information pointing to the opposite conclusion.
The big picture for Pincus is that he has pocketed a lot of cash this year selling shares in two companies that are joined at the hip and have been disasters for stock investors.
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As a group, these stocks have been shellacked since they joined the Dow 30, but along the way they have continued to make a lot of money for anyone who purchased shares when stock prices were excessively low.
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And like a lot of Liz's clothes, the shares are still affordable.
Although it keeps a lot of the savings for itself, it also shares some of them with its suppliers.
But, all jokes aside, there is a lot of very helpful contextual data in what Meeker shares on her deck.
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Likely sales, at some point, include more of the government's stakes in Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Post, shares in four airports, including Frankfurt and Munich, and a lot of property.
Again, Commerce shares have edged up 1% since mid-November, but a lot of smart investors are still betting against them.
Among the worst: selling your bank shares in March, buying Japanese stocks this year, or holding onto a lot of cash.
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Clearwire shares a lot with classic McCaw deals: same management group, same crazy structure of deals, loans and vendor agreements.
If course, a lot of upside could potentially be left on the table if ACT shares really soar, which is why looking at the trailing twelve month trading history for Actavis, Inc, as well as studying the business fundamentals becomes important.
If course, a lot of upside could potentially be left on the table if SVM shares really soar, which is why looking at the trailing twelve month trading history for Silvercorp Metals Inc, as well as studying the business fundamentals becomes important.
If course, a lot of upside could potentially be left on the table if MHR shares really soar, which is why looking at the trailing twelve month trading history for Magnum Hunter Resources Corp , as well as studying the business fundamentals becomes important.
Still, despite all the setbacks, some Facebook employees remain in good financial shape because they were issued restricted stock units and not stock options, meaning their shares are worth something and in the case of employees who joined the company prior to November 2010 their shares are probably worth quite a lot.
If trustees were to manage these shares in the best interests of pension-fund members, Japan's stockmarket could suddenly become a lot more shareholder-friendly.
As the President has said, and I think the Speaker probably shares this opinion, that this is useful and valuable because they obviously both have a lot of responsibility for the kinds of decisions that need to be made in this country on behalf of the American people.
Assuming the possibility that the short-seller's bearishness is unwarranted--which is a lot of the time--the seller, seeking to avoid losses on shares sold short, must re-enter the market in order to buy back the shares at a loss so that they can be returned.
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