In the last decade, they launched a series of mega-blockbusters, which ensured massive and fast-growing profits.
This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped.
According to currency traders in New York and Sampa, some fast money accounts were taking profits Monday.
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McDonalds (MCD), t he franchise food chain, is planning to buyback about 10% of its shares outstanding in a strategy to stabilize MCD shares at a time of flat profits and slowing fast-food revenues in soft economies round the globe.
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What kept Corning on a kind of treadmill until this year was that as fast as it was gaining volume and profits from new products, it was losing them in TV tubes.
With Icahn, the best strategy is to be quick in betting on his own investments and then be as fast in deciding whether to take early profits or go for the longer-term chance to bag a big-bundle hit.
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LinkedIn is sacrificing profits now to keep growing as fast as it can.
But its high price relative to profits requires it to keep growing fast.
You must maximize the profits of an outdated product line as fast as possible.
However fast the economy grows, under this scenario, profits will be destroyed (and thus bond defaults will rise).
Do that enough, fast enough, and it can lead to big profits.
During the chip recession of 1997-98, profits in Motorola's chips segment fell fast and far.
Corporate debts are falling as rapidly as profits are rising, which is to say very fast.
It put Priceline in competition with Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz, but the set-price business has been growing three times as fast and now represents more than half of revenue and two-thirds of profits.
Orbitz ( OWW - news - people ), but the set-price business has been growing three times as fast and now represents more than half of revenue and two-thirds of profits.
It matters little if it is performance enhancing drugs to win a sporting event, inside information to put on a fast buck trade, padded Vatican contracts, or Goldman Sachs putting its own profits before those of its clients.
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The Amazon story is not found in media based revenues or operating profits but in general merchandise and electronics, two thirds of revenues and growing twice as fast as the media sector.
Lloyds has today joined Royal Bank of Scotland in warning that it expects to fail to meet targets for profits growth over the next three years saying that the British economy is not recovering as fast as it had hoped.
The slightest stumble in high growth rates can lead to enormous changes in value at fast-moving companies, since today's stock prices are highly sensitive to projections of long-term future profits.
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