Looking to take advantage of the bull market of the late 1990s, Orfalea and his partners took stock in the new company with the expectation that it would go public in that feverish market for new issues.
The company raised its guidance and as the stock took off in post-market trading.
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Today, President Obama and I took stock of progress in this vital year.
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One of the drivers was the announcement of a special dividend from Costco (COST), which took the stock up in addition to positive news on November same store gains.
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If we just took our existing building stock in homes and insulated them, had new windows -- schools, hospitals, a lot of big institutions -- we could squeeze huge efficiencies out of that.
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In America, big investment banks recently took big stakes in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and are investing in a new, all-electronic Boston exchange in the hope of countering the NYSE's power.
Once the stock market boom took hold in 2003, however, the trend is very clear.
For example, mental accounting contributed to the large increase in stock prices in the 1990s, as many people took on more and more risk with the justification that they were only playing only with gains from the past few years.
When he had finished, he lifted each foot in turn and took stock of the cleanliness of his soles.
And there is evidence that previously bearish and pessimistic investors who took money out of the stock market in 2009, 2010, 2011, and right up until mid-year last year, long after the new bull market began in early 2009, are now pouring money back in.
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Indeed, Sealy has greatly deteriorated since KKR took it public in 2006: The stock is down nearly 90%.
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Then, a pullback during which the stock traded lower for three days in a row (the final two in technically oversold territory) led to a rally in McDonalds that took the stock higher for three out of the next four sessions.
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The prospect of a price war took AMD's stock price down 7% in one day in March.
While most mom and pop were oblivious to the outside day in Apple stock, professionals took it seriously.
She took stock of all the connections she still had in the schmatte trade and realized she could make a fine living hiring herself on a contract basis.
That work came out of the 16th-century Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte, in which traveling actors took on stock roles and interacted with the audience rather than sticking to a script.
It got convertible preferred stock in the combined company and took two of seven board seats, 32.7% of voting rights, and an option to convert its holdings into 32.7% of Solo Cup common.
From when Johnson took the reins November 1, 2011 the stock was cut in half, dropping 52.2%.
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The leaders today, in the first formal NAC session, took stock of where we stand, and they made a number of fundamental decisions to make sure that NATO will have the right capabilities.
Seventy years ago, on Black Thursday, October the 24th 1929, the world shuddered as 13 million shares were sold on Wall Street, after confidence in the stock market burst and panic took over.
Investors took the news in stride, with a slight dip in stock price followed by a rebound.
"How splendid that The Queen is taking part in our Golden Jubilee celebrations as she took part in the consecration 50 years ago, " Mr Stock said.
Dragging the tech ETF lower was aggressive selling in Corning (GLW), which took the stock down by more than 10% as part of a multi-day correction.
CEOs at rivals including Morgan Stanley (nyse: MWD - news - people), Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people) and Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people) also took pay cuts, as Wall Street struggled with falling stock markets in 2001.
One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.
Hanson took command of the company in January, a time when the stock had lost 11% in two years.
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Several BET executives became instant millionaires in 1998 when Johnson took the company private and their stock options vested.
Ill-conceived comments made soon after he took his post in 1987 helped cause the biggest one-day stock market meltdown in history.
Berjaya Retail listed on the country's stock exchange in August 2010, but Mr. Tan took the company private less than nine months later amid depressed share prices, saying investors had undervalued it.
But in this moment, as in so many others like it, when I took stock of their unhappy reaction to what I said, I felt myself at the cold, hard center of a perfect storm: We expect more from technology and less from each other.
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