However, any of the companies listed above would obviously demand a premium over market capitalization and may not even consider merging or being purchased.
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Refusing to pay dividends, he says, leads to cash hoarding and chronic over-capitalization, leading mangers to seek out investment choices with lower and lower net present values, which is especially true given that any return looks good relative to the effective 0% returns now available on cash.
With the strong support of his board and an another supposedly positive earnings call coming later today, it's hard to call Steve's position as "shaky" at the company, but with whispers of infighting, a symbolic battle with Apple over market capitalization, and a do-or-die mobile launch coming up, it's clear that he's under a lot of pressure to deliver.
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We have lost around 60% of our market capitalization over the last ten years, i.e. several hundred billion dollars.
That plunge is attributed to the country's still-shaky economy, which saw a 64.1% decrease in market capitalization over 2008.
Bonuses, until recently, were tied to market capitalization and stock movement over six-month intervals.
Their market capitalization had dropped steadily over 2 to 3 years and their primary competitors had enjoyed better shareholder returns.
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And it wasn't the eye-popping sales figures for Apple's iPods or its new iPhone that sent Apple market capitalization--already up 25% over the past quarter--vaulting past IBM .
On the other hand, ABB is one of many companies under the umbrella of Sweden's Wallenberg family, who control, directly and indirectly, over 40% of the Swedish stock market's capitalization.
It contains over 3, 000 stocks representing more than 99.5% of the capitalization of the U.S. equity markets.
The ring fence was one of those anachronisms from the early days in the capitalization of Russia, when folks were still just a bit queasy about foreigners taking over the nation's patrimony.
Customers will be vetted according to the regular Exante capitalization requirements and margin funds would be provided through institutional broker financing at a fixed % over LIBOR.
Over the 20 to 30 years before the financial crisis it tripled as a percentage of GDP or stock market capitalization.
Arch Capital Group is down nearly 5% over last Tuesday, Chubb Corporation has fallen nearly 7% and Allstate has lost almost 9% of its market capitalization, despite announcing third quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates on Friday.
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