We don't count founders' stock and we don't count successful executives who have built their wealth over a longer period--like Louis Gerstner Jr.
They will create easier ways to count stock, scan products and ring up an order.
Using it to buy back stock and reduce the share count will increase the earnings per share for those investors who don't sell.
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Double-digit growth in emerging-market stock indexes helped boost the billionaire count in other countries.
Because the market was so high about a decade ago--dividend yields got down to about 1% and PE got up to almost 40 times--as I say in my book and as I said in the speech I gave at Princeton called "Don't Count On It, " if you think the stock market is going to give a positive return in the next decade, don't count on it.
States and localities got religion in the mid-1970s and began funding their pensions more soundly, but then a long bull market led management and unions to count on super-charged stock-market returns to cover the future costs.
Recent per-share-profit growth stems from steady, if modest, sales growth, consistent expansion of operating profi t margins, and stock buybacks, which have trimmed the share count by more than 4% in the past year.
As far as I can tell, there were no corporate developments to count for this big jump in the stock.
By his count, on average the gap between where stock prices began and where Applied Finance figured they should be shrank 15% to 30% a year from 1998 to 2005.
The AP formula does not count changes in the present value of pension benefits or stock option gains such as those recognized by Zuckerberg did last year.
Mr. NOCERA: Well, as has been noted in the newspapers, he has a big problem with an insider trading count where he said that he wanted to sell some stock right after September 11 because of September 11 and the affect it would have on Enron's stock.
Unlike Facebook, it can also count on the loyalty of its customers to prop up its stock.
You may not be able to count cards at the blackjack table, but counting historical trends of the stock market and discovering inflection points are not only legal strategies, they are essential to successful investing.
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We count 2, 998 new issues in the last ten years (excluding penny-stock deals), with an average relative-to-market score of only 94.
The banks get to deduct the "dividends" of their trust-preferred stock as interest expense (thus lowering the after-tax cost of borrowing) and get to count it as capital.
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Analysts studying companies buying back their own stock will also factor into their analysis that future earnings will now be spread over a smaller share count, thereby increasing the per-share earnings the remaining shares will enjoy, versus what that same number would have been absent the stock buyback activity.
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