The upshot is that half of the earnings went into management's pocket.
According to McNulty, the risks include earnings, management depth, and valuation.
That is, a temporary dip in earnings is unlikely to result in a change in the dividend, or cause management to make the difficult choice to payout earnings that should be allocated to growing the business, both of which would put downward pressure on the price of the stock.
"The announced 80% divestment will substantially improve earnings visibility for the stock and free up management capacity to focus on the remaining businesses, " he said, adding that he maintained his "buy" recommendation on DaimlerChrysler.
For the year ahead, management stood by their previous guidance of earnings growth in the range of 11% to 13%, excluding the impact of currency fluctuations.
Who owns the earnings stream, shareholders or the management talent?
That might have been the case had not Kiphart made the recent investment, but the extra cash should be enough to allow Lime to avoid raising significant amounts of money in the open market until they start to show significant increases in earnings from the ramp up of several utility demand management programs.
It is difficult for management to admit their mistakes (they are human, and we are not good at that), and for the board to fire current management while the company is increasing its revenues and earnings.
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Icahn (Herbalife), some disappointing GDP numbers out of Europe, the continued earnings parade, and the ongoing saga of David Einhorn and Apple management.
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This most recent quarterly performance drove the stock to levels not seen since earlier this year when Coach missed earnings expectations for the holiday period due to what management blamed as weakness in the economy.
Intel management indicated during the recent earnings call that the PC industry is now shipping over 1 million PCs a day, which suggests additional upside to our global PC market forecast.
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The company also said earnings benefitted from tighter management.
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How well management spends retained earnings to the benefit of shareholders is looked at, specifically.
Whatever the case, the decision on earnings forecasts should be left to management, not to Washington politicians or regulators.
During the earnings call we got some encouraging metrics from management which give us confidence that Youtube will be a bigger driver of revenue growth going forward.
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"The fact that the stock didn't move after good earnings suggested to the board that Wall Street might not have confidence in that management team, " he said.
Ding noted that while investor confidence as a whole has be shaken over the past few months, the asset management until still managed to attract new money and contributed to the quarter's earnings.
Last month, Raymond James analysts upgraded a handful of builders and raised earnings estimates on the group based on conversation with management teams and field research in key markets in states like Texas, California, Nevada and Florida.
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During Q3 earnings, management outlined their efforts to tap the market by increasing the size of the sales force.
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On Tuesday, shares sold off nearly 10% when management warned that revenue and earnings for the third quarter would miss earlier forecasts.
BlackRock fell after the world's largest money manager posted earnings and assets under management that were largely unchanged from a year earlier.
Among diversified capital goods companies, Eaton had neither the celebrated management of a GE nor a reputation for consistent earnings growth like Illinois Tool Works.
The figures represent earnings from May 2011 to May 2012, before subtracting management fees, legal costs and taxes (which together can eat up the bulk of a big payday).
Management increased its earnings forecast for fiscal 2011 to reflect the better-than-expected second quarter results.
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Investors sold off NetFlix after its earnings report today, down 10% on the market open, because Management said that it expects subscriber levels to stay constant in the coming quarter when price increases take effect.
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These factors may explain why management failed to raise its full-year earnings guidance following the earnings release.
Recent changes in Deutsche Telekom's management were also seen by UBS as a possible prelude to the earnings revision.
Unless Coke management foresaw this and hedged this exposure, earnings will be reduced by the stronger dollar.
Excluding restructuring charges, management expects to report earnings of 47-51 cents per share for the current quarter.
The chief executive's pay exceeded the earnings of one of Scotland's other top financiers, Martin Gilbert of Aberdeen Asset Management.
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