They know the comps and are prepared to make an offer at fair market value.
Comps are getting very easy in metals and industrials, and, excluding the destocking effect, even stabilization would be positive.
The company is starting with a marketplace to exchange data on leasing comps.
The primary reason that an appraisal will result in a value that is less than the sales price is comps.
However, given the better comps, we maintain our 20% probability that Dick Schulze is successful with his bid for the company.
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Comps on a three-year period accelerated to 8.7% from 6.7% last quarter.
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Harrah's showgirls appeared outside the main poker room luring spectators to casinos by offering free tickets to comedy shows and comps for food.
While comps grew an impressive 7.2 percent, they were less than its range of 8.5 percent to 8.9 percent seen over the past year.
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Growth in revenue was driven by a 9% increase in comparable store sales (comps) compared with a rise of 1% in the year-ago quarter.
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We wonder how quickly bullish optimism over new store growth might turn into concerns for cannibalization as comps at mature stores continue to deteriorate.
Echelon Corp (ELON): Visibility stays constrained and compounded by tough comps (wind-down of large projects), as sustained breakeven goals remain difficult in this macro environment.
Office Depot ( ODP - news - people ) and Staples--stand to do well, at least against weak comps for a year.
Second, for those who have managed to increased comps by pushing price increases, how do they know they have captured all of the consumer value?
If external income statement-based comps should always be taken with a grain (or two) of salt, then what metrics should an early stage consumer investor use?
Bidding wars, lack of appropriate comps or buyers that perceive value regardless of the appraisal, may or may not result in a renegotiation of the sales price.
The company has reported six straight quarters of negative comps.
Comps of mobile phones increased 13% in the first quarter.
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After three years of muscular increases, year-over-year comps are tougher.
This morning, Rite Aid (nyse: RAD - news - people ) reported comps--analyst slang for monthly same-store sales figures compared with the year-ago period--that were up 5.9% for April.
While this move was likely overdone, the reason for the decline was an update on disappointing overseas sales that showed a slowing trend in Europe that included negative comps for flagship stores.
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So when Gap reported glumly a few weeks ago that after a strong November, December same-store sales had softened (Gap North America comps down 8% year-over-year, others not so bad) the stock got even more depressed.
"If you look at our stock and you do some analysis on it, the multiples that we trade at, the valuation that we trade at, in my opinion, is at a discount to our comps, " he said.
Domestic holiday comps suggest stabilizing revenues.
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That was less impressive than the comps reported by Rite Aid's larger rivals Walgreen (nyse: WAG - news - people ), which clocked in at 10.8%, and CVS (nyse: CVS - news - people ), which racked up a 7.1% gain.
The ability to work in the kind of visual environment that designers are used to, generate working comps for clients and export code for developers will both speed up design development, but also avoid the unintended awkwardness that can result from programmatic design decisions made without sufficient visual feedback.
Most importantly, the 18% price-per-ad growth in North America, despite easy comps with virtually no Newsfeed revenue a year ago, suggests we will need to see a pricing-power inflection for the multiple to expand, or even for it to remain stable, in early 2014 and onwards when comps become harder.
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