MLPs, or Master Limited Partnerships, were historically thought of as graveyards where energy companies would put their old rent-earning assets out to pasture.
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Each of these properties is nuanced either by future litigation expenses, the cost of under-earning assets and future savings on headcount and other administrative excesses.
But as the popularity of the brokerage services results in more people opening trading accounts with the company, this in-turn leads to higher interest-earning assets for Schwab.
The net interest income it earns on these investment is the difference between the interest revenue on interest-earning assets and the interest expense incurred on interest-bearing liabilities.
Banks have been riding a steep yield curve, meaning they borrow money at virtually no cost from the government and lend it out or invest it in higher-earning assets, profiting from the difference.
Meanwhile, banks starve for earning assets.
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It reveals how much profit a company is earning of off its net assets.
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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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"As a practical matter each individual infringer lacks the assets, net worth and earning capacity to make civil prosecution practical, " it said.
One of my bank clients has several billion dollars of cash and short-term assets on which it is earning just 27 hundredths of one percent interest.
Especially in high-net-worth marriages, earning a higher income or owning greater personal assets than your husband makes for special considerations when it comes to divorce.
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Earning a management fee for managing or monitoring assets under management (AUM) results in income that should be taxed at ordinary income tax rates. (Fees earned and taxed in Year 1).
Non-earning loans were running 3.8% of assets, up from 2.12% a year earlier, but with signs of stabilization.
In cyclical sectors like steel, coal, copper, or even aerospace and oil I can model average earning power over a full cycle or even use a discount table on assets in the ground.
Unlike a stock or bond, for which you loan money to an entity with the expectation of earning a return for the risk you took, buying commodities is like buying physical assets.
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