Our expectations for the quarter are very low, and weak results should pressure near-term share performance.
The first sort resulted in above-average short- and long-term share performance, the second in prolonged under-performance.
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But the three might be in for a longer-term share slump as details of the new taxes and rules become known and investors flee.
The pay details released in Barclays' annual report include salaries, bonuses and the value of long-term share awards given to all of the bank's 145, 000 staff.
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He portrays the typical CEO at one of these companies as running a stagnant business in need of a short-term share price boost to reward insiders holding executive stock options.
But shareholder support group ShareSoc urged Faroe stakeholders to vote against the scheme, claiming it would encourage a focus on the short-term share price instead of the fundamental strength of the business.
What this conclusion misses is that, in a platform market, having dominant market share is critical to maintaining long-term profit share.
Sure, over the long term, share prices are indeed driven by real events.
It is this short-term financing share that creates the potential for systemic spillovers in the form of deleveraging and marketwide fire sales of illiquid assets.
To fully benefit from this opportunity, AMD needs to position itself for long-term market share gains rather than fluctuations limited to a quarter or two.
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His critics at home counter that Mr Chavez has sacrificed Venezuela's long-term market share and the health of its oil industry for a probably ephemeral cash windfall.
Frazier yanked long-term earnings per share guidance in order to fund research and other business-building projects.
One lesson that the late 1990s did teach America was the powerful effect on corporate behaviour of short-term moves in share prices.
The Lynch strategy likes its impressive 27.8% long-term earnings per share growth rate (based on an average of the three- and five-year EPS growth rates).
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Along with activist hedge funds, many institutional investors have idolised short-term profits and share-price increases rather than engaging recalcitrant managers in discussions about corporate governance or executive pay.
Yet bosses typically had their pay linked to short-term movements in share prices, which encouraged them to take measures to push the share price up quickly, rather than to maximise shareholder value in the long run (by when they would probably have departed).
Whether in the form of options, the outright grant of shares, bonuses tied to criteria such as earnings or revenue growth, or some other means, pay should be explicitly aligned with the long-term interests of the owners, not short-term blips in share prices or profits.
The system has encouraged workers to suppress short-term demands in exchange for a share in the longer-term benefits of growth.
Near term fluctuations in market share will not matter between Google and Apple for some time.
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The best way is to give them a defined, long-term right to a share of the fish.
By the end of 2007, money funds held a record 31% of corporate America's short-term assets, a share that is thought to have continued rising this year.
Unlike its more profitable private sector rival HDFC Bank, ICICI is ready to sacrifice short-term net for gaining market share, as it did in undercutting HDFC's long-standing lead in mortgage loans. (Overall, ICICI's net interest margin of 2.25% is less than half that of HDFC Bank's 4.72%.) Similarly, ICICI has overtaken Citibank as the country's largest issuer of credit cards, with 8.5 million cards issued to date.
Most share awards are based on long-term goals, such as a three-year rise in earnings per share and any increase in the share price.
In addition, Mr Kavanagh argues that analysts are looking at a share as a long term investment.
This will imply that the company will be able to more or less maintain its market share in the long term.
They may optimize for either market share or short-term revenue at the expense of the long-term health of the Twitter platform.
In his first term Lula's reluctance to share power with other parties led to a congressional vote-buying scandal that nearly destroyed his presidency.
But Meijer says the average diet lasts just days, and a company that favors health over taste risks market share in the long term.
In the following years, as the economy and fiscal health improved, the share of short-term debt fell to reach 32.6% of the total in July this year.
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