Investors who backed the slow-growth countries earned better returns than those backing the high-growth group.
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Growing companies like Boston Beer rarely trade at lower enterprise multiples than their slow-growth peers.
Key segments of the cardiac device market, particularly the pacemaker business, have matured into slow-growth operations.
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Slow-growth shrubs are definitely low-maintenance plants, requiring less pruning and creating less yard waste.
Maybe, we suggested, HP should spin off one or more of its traditional, slow-growth businesses.
In this slow-growth stronghold, anything other than a glacial pace of development is anathema.
Her work life has been varied from nimble early-stage to slow-growth traditional companies.
Engel's law, however, does not mean that agriculture will, sooner or later, become a slow-growth sector.
In more normal times, the slow-growth companies might go bust - and produce a lot of job losses in the process.
M. genitalium still had a slow-growth problem, so the team swapped bugs, lighting on its cousin, Mycoplasma mycoides.
Its business was limited almost exclusively to North America and the UK, where beer brewing is a slow-growth business.
On the margin--the margin that gave the Democrats control of the House and Senate--the vote winners were slow-growth independent populists.
But compare it with Wal-Mart, Chung says, which is in a slow-growth, capital-intensive business and trading at 29 times free cash flow.
The biggest: a dramatic shift away from slow-growth newspaper publishing, leaving the company to focus more on its higher-margin entertainment and digital-distribution properties.
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One might have thought that there was no innovative thinking to be had in the food category in general, a pretty slow-growth arena.
After two years of Keynesian and monetarist stimulus on steroids, the anemic recovery from the 2008-09 recession is giving way to a slow-growth economy.
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Its balance sheet is strong, its dividend yield is pretty attractive at 3.10%, and management has been creative in finding growth in a slow-growth field.
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With the US economy stalled in a slow-growth mode, stock prices cannot go up forever, noted Alexandra Scaggs last week in the Wall Street Journal.
The hunger for new fees led bankers to match investors' search for high yields with mature, slow-growth companies and their owners, who were desperate to unload them.
Jim Donald made his name in the slow-growth supermarket business.
One could argue that the slow-growth consumer desktop computer market needs more pizzazz to create excitement, but shouldn't a company be advancing the product that's driving its growth most aggressively?
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It has redoubled efforts to sign trade and investment deals to diversify Canadian exports away from slow-growth markets, where 85% of them are now directed, and towards racy Asian economies.
It is more likely that the culture of the increasingly child-free northern tier and the slow-growth coasts will, to evoke the past, be the ones gone with the wind.
Bristol-Myers is what I call a slow-growth-at-a-reasonable-price stock!
Monday, data showed Americans' incomes picked up during December, but that more people chose to increase saving instead of spending, a sign the U.S. economy could remain in slow-growth mode this year.
Knowing that the demand for used goods could increase in our slow-growth economy, Sageworks analyzed how this type of retailer (second-hand stores, thrift shops, used good stores, etc.) fares differently from its retailing peers.
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Around 60% produced victories for the slow-growth lobby.
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This is in contrast to the more expensive and slow-growth telecom, utilities and consumer staples groups, which were bid up in 2011 as investors took refuge in them for their high dividend yields and elevated payout ratios and safety.
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That is not without consequence, as it will mean slower growth in the short term (less than one year), but cutting deficits year after year, even gradually, will mean a very slow-growth, muddle through economy for a sustained period.
Dell may be wise to avoid trying to get its costs below those of Lenovo Group and Acer, but corporate IT budgets have been under tight scrutiny over the last 12 years as CEOs struggle to meet financial targets in a slow-growth world.
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