Most companies use share buybacks or pay special dividends on their common stock to return excess cash to shareholders.
But one thing that Britain, Spain, Ireland and the rest of the European economy have in common: Any return to growth is likely to lose momentum next year as governments everywhere carefully ease their feet off the economic stimulus pedal.
During the Welch era GE investors received amongst the highest rate of return on any common stock!
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If the common closes on the conversion date at the recent price, the common buyer's total return would be 9%, while the convert buyer would have 10.8%.
We have to return to some very common-sense principles that everyday Americans live by every time they go to the grocery store or want to go to the movies or cash their paycheck, and that is you can't spend more than you have.
Those goals are expected to be similar to ones outlined in a new executive compensation plan that grades performance based on return on assets and tangible common equity, the people said.
Codifying an unlocking exemption brings the law in line with common sense and will prevent yet another return to a flawed process that creates a perpetual re-lobbying of many settled issues every three years.
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This is common where there is no feasible way to return to the prior parity.
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And without a framework for common financing, investors' confidence will not return.
But the Treasury got a 5% dividend from the banks in return, plus warrants on their common stock that could be sold later at a profit.
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In these deals, Ribotsky invested cash in thinly traded public companies, in return for securities convertible into discounted common shares, often causing the stock price to tumble.
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The capital that earns a variable return--the equity, the common stock--is taxed twice.
The slightly unconventional ways in which Greenblatt calculates earnings yield and return on capital also involve some good common sense and are particularly interesting given the recent credit crisis.
Cuba faces the return of the frequent power cuts that were common in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, its hitherto paymaster.
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At present unions in Brazil cannot strike the sort of deals that are common elsewhere, such as accepting pay cuts during downturns in return for no job losses, since individual workers may later ask the labour courts to unpick them.
There is no doubt investors would love to see a return of stability and what they consider to be the common sense of long-term investing.
More common are promising molecules that flunk clinical trials and so earn no return at all, or drugs that shine for a few months before being trounced by a better pill from a rival firm.
Common investing wisdom is that the lower the fees, the better return for the investor, especially if the products are identical, which is pretty much the case for the physically backed gold ETFs, said Michael Johnston, director of ETF Database.
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Avoid the common shopping mistakes above and your family, friends and coworkers might actually start looking forward to your return home for a change.
Again, the next American president may have a difficult request in return, says Mr Hulsman: a demand that Europe undertakes a slashing reform of the common agricultural policy.
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The shares that taxpayers will own will be paid back with "a reasonable return, " the Treasury Department said, adding that taxpayers will also have warrants for common stock, which means an option to buy such shares in the future.
The most famous investor in the U.S. prefers not to invest in common stocks, because he doesn't see an opportunity to make a 10% after-tax return.
Teanby robbed East Common Lane Post Office, in Scunthorpe, on 21 May 2012, the day he was due to return to North Sea Camp where he was serving a sentence for robbery, GBH and assault.
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