Major banks and brokerage houses like Goldman Sachs trade below net tangible assets per share.
Some investors are nostalgic for earlier times when tangible assets looked safe as paper stocks fell.
These properties, including Goldman Sachs, still sell at or below net tangible assets per share.
Banks are the cheapest group on the Big Board, still selling at or below net tangible assets per share.
Second, Chinese like to own hard, tangible assets such as agricultural land, and COFCO probably got a good deal.
This incorporates the tangible assets (e.g. land, improvements, and fixtures) and intangible assets.
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Fully compliant Islamic financial institutions are prohibited from interest payments and require transactions to be backed by tangible assets.
But owning fund-management groups is not without pitfalls, because they have no tangible assets against which debt can be secured.
The big moneyed hedge funds and distressed buyers will circle any tangible assets they think they can get their hands on.
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The thirst for tangible assets in time of war and uncertainty could fuel bidding at two upcoming jewelry auctions in New York.
My properties still sell below net tangible assets per share, a plus.
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Used to be that a company borrowing to cover payroll or an inventory buildup would get a 12-month bank loan backed by tangible assets.
Technology companies in particular have always found it harder to get bank financing because their balance sheets generally had more intangible than tangible assets.
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But for an industry where most tangible assets are relatively commoditised, the strongest source of competitive advantage in future will be how people behave when no one is looking.
Whereas tangible assets like plant and equipment drove a company's value during much of the past century, intangible assets such as brands, patents and trademarks are what create value today.
Meanwhile, tangible assets shared in partnership by caring individuals, associations, organizations and companies are often the very vehicle of hope that transforms lives for the better, materially, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Whenever anyone points to the fragility of his business empire, in terms of losses or lack of tangible assets, Mr Branson points to the intangible benefit locked up in his brands.
They remain too bearish regarding the return on equity for the big players as regulators elongate dates for compliance on net tangible assets per share, liquidity percentages and other restrictive yardsticks.
Whatever the price of gold reflects, inflation expectations or the need for safe tangible assets, investor will have to keep their eyes peeled for the G7 meeting being held over the weekend.
In both cases what really makes the entity valuable and successful is the very special way the intangibles and tangible assets come together to generate a present value of future net income.
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And there is Tobin's q, a ratio of the stockmarket value to the replacement cost of its tangible assets an attempt to measure what it would cost to recreate a company from scratch.
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In the meantime the total number of banks in the US continues to decline while the ratio of tangible equity to tangible assets stands higher than any time in the 1984-2010 period.
Unlike product innovations, systems innovations are nearly impossible to protect with patents and are rarely backed by tangible assets, making them much less attractive to investors and therefore much harder to launch and develop.
Despite the misleading personal savings rate (negative because it arbitrarily excludes gains from income), the U.S. has more household financial savings than the rest of the world combined, an even bigger lead if tangible assets like houses and cars are counted.
The year 2010, in which China overtook Europe to become the second-largest art market after the United States, has been described as an annus mirabilis for Chinese art collecting as wealthy Chinese from all levels of the new society chose art and objects as tangible assets, suitable for investment, trading and bragging rights beyond simple display.
Fortunately, the Big Board contains a quotient of intrinsic value embedded in tangible corporate assets, then average earning power cycle to cycle and dividend paying capacity.
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That might sound like an accounting nicety, but the level of tangible versus intangible assets can impact important things like the satisfying of loan covenants.
Those women who work outside the home have access to these tangible and intangible assets, which may devalue or, in some cases, even undermine the contributions and provisions supplied by male-only employment.
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