The implied premium for the operating assets of the company clearly is considerably greater when adjusted for the minority, non-controlled assets and cash.
After the asset sale to Zumwalt, Woodside Ranch had no operating assets and ceased to engage in any meaningful business activity.
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Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, private-sector Chinese entrepreneurs could set up offshore ownership structures in Hong Kong, the U.S. or the Cayman Islands, that through a new Chinese subsidiary would acquire operating business assets in China.
Our work suggests that Och-Ziff has significant operating leverage to assets under management, and recent inflows bode well for both revenue growth and margin expansion.
We are trying to fix the police, but while we're trying to fix the local conventional police, we have, in the same area of operation, national police units, we have Iraqi Army units, we have MOI Intelligence units, all kinds of different national assets and provincial assets operating in the same area with virtually the same jurisdictional boundaries.
An entrepreneur makes predictions through three basic projections: future revenues, future operating costs, and assets needed to service future demand.
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Revenues have also increased each year since 2008, as has net income, return on equity, return on assets, operating margins, and net margins.
But not all the assets acquired are operating in the fashion Barclays expected.
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Dividend payouts, operating margins, return on assets, return on equity as measured by these traditional profitability metrics, Otellini delivered the goods.
The financial advantages to owning these assets, lower operating costs, higher resale value, it seems like that part of the story is still being written.
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According to a recent Citigroup study, small firms on average spend a heavy 2% of their assets covering various operating expenses, excluding salaries and payouts to their investment teams.
On the negative side, revenue growth is decelerating at the same time Amazon is investing more than previously expected in fulfillment centers (fixed assets) and operating and customer service employees (variable costs).
That said, he expects a new focus on shedding non-core assets and improving operating performance, which should lead to better opportunities to deploy capital to shareholders, an attempt at which was shot down by the Federal Reserve after the 2012 CCAR.
These are not assets which Eni has been operating, but in which it has a stake.
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In explaining his decision to make the acquisition today, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison boiled down Sun into a company of two key assets: Java and the Solaris operating system.
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The Public-Private Investment Program is better for the taxpayer than having the government alone directly purchase the assets from banks that are still operating and assume a larger share of the losses.
American Airlines announced in January it was buying the assets of TWA, which is now operating as its subsidiary.
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The net cash proceeds are prior to any adjustment for potential tax liabilities which are likely to arise from the sale of spectrum assets even after utilizing the existing net operating losses.
Free cash flow is calculated as GAAP net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and equipment and intangible assets.
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This type of financing has been dominated by the retail and garments industries, but has spread to other business sectors that have accounts receivable or other assets, according to Brian Cove, chief operating officer at the association, a New York-based trade group.
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For the year 2009 its operating margin was at 0.29%, return on assets was 2.91% and return on equity was 8.59%.
Shabby figures when measured up against arch rival BMW, whose operating margin was at 0.46%, return on assets was 0.20% and the return on equity was1.02%.
Global competitors can match the assets, and drive down prices using cheap labor and operating by less onerous standards.
Its own financial position is even worse: Their 2009 operating margin stood at 2.83%, the return on assets was 4.89% and return on equity, 17.89%.
This involves looking at all of the contracts related to joint operating agreements, areas of mutual interest, preferential rights to purchase assets, cash calls, tax partnerships, gas balancing agreements, and more.
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