He tried to reassure investors, though, by stressing his confidence in the strength of the company's portfolio.
Dividend increases are a shareholder friendly action that we believe demonstrates the confidence that management has in the strength of the company going forward.
But this recent sink might be more related to external timidity than the actual strength of the company, and a bounce back would not be out of the question.
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"We believe the strength of the company's cigarette portfolio, the scale of its operations, and the firm's ability to build share through new market entries and acquisitions will make Philip Morris a force to be reckoned with on the global tobacco scene, " wrote Morningstar analyst Greggory Warren in a recent research note.
We determine whether the insured's health is about the same as when the policy was acquired and other factors that could affect a policy's value, such as the financial strength of the insurance company.
The strength of the combined company would put significant pressure on other companies in the telecom and networking-equipment space, including Ericsson (nasdaq: ERICY - news - people ), Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ).
The strength of the pound is being blamed for the failure of the Rover car company and the troubles of British manufacturing.
Janes says the area has benefitted from the growing economic strength of San Antonio, which has welcomed company presence from Allstate Insurance to Halliburton to Rackspace in the past several years.
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Solving this problem is the first order of business for T2 Biosystems, a company founded on the strength of a new diagnostic technology developed by scientists at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Insiders admit that Ford was willing to pay well over the odds for the South Korean company because of the strength it would thereby acquire in Asia.
In addition, his proprietary TopStocks Strategy focuses on the top ranked stocks in terms of earnings strength and company performance in the top performing industry groups.
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Akerson is said to believe that GM needs another, equally rich source of profits namely, a strong global luxury brand to balance the strength of its truck line and sustain the company in the future.
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Adidas is catching up with Nike in the race to be China's top sportswear company, on the strength of products like high-heeled tennis shoes.
The sale of AIA and other similar deals will probably be accompanied by non-compete agreements, confining the opportunities for a company whose greatest historic strength was the flip side of its organisational sprawl: a hunger to seek out profitable opportunities wherever they were.
Like many other inward investors, it says the company is worried about the strength of the pound against the euro: no wonder, given that it exports 70% of the output of its Derby factory to other European countries.
Despite Warner's challenges, it is faring slightly better than other major music companies given the strength of its digital business, which has a higher market share than the company's physical sales, according to Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson.
This business is likely to pick up on the strength of hybrid tablet-notebooks and Ultrabooks in the long term, but the company will show slow PC sale growth in the short term.
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Although its fourth-quarter earnings reported early Wednesday beat investors' expectations, the results pointed to problems at a time that the company is in need of financial strength.
"The goal is to develop techniques for using the strength of the legs and torso to help power motions of the arm, " posted the company underneath the video.
Drawing upon the strength found within a cluster can also help foster the kind of innovation necessary to fortify a company left reeling by an economic downturn.
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The seed, fertilizer and pesticide company said the first quarter results are driven primarily from strength of its business in Brazil and Argentina.
Bjordal said research suggested about 20 cellphones were inadvertently left switched on during any given flight, and claimed that the company's technology actually reduced the signal strength of those active cellphones.
Slim's wealth continues to soar, largely on the strength of his wireless telecom company, America Movil (nyse: AMX - news - people ), of which he owns 30% and which is up 36% this year.
Microsoft's expanding tablet ambitions comes as sales of desktop and laptop computers are sinking, hurting the company's traditional area of strength.
They must move beyond their area of strength and comfort into the unfamiliar territory of trying to become a software platform company.
Apple became the largest company in the world by market capitalization on the strength of innovation in mobile phones.
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The company added that UK holidaymakers had suffered because of the strength of the euro against the pound.
Value investors often look closely at dividend policies as a part of total return on an investment and an indicator of the financial strength and prospects for a company.
If an insured's health has deteriorated more than the passage of time would expect, the insurance company has dismal financial strength or some other pertinent issue is evident, this will have a direct impact on the policy's market value.
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