Sentence examples for comparison companies from inspiring English sources

If an ESOP company's growth was consistent and significantly higher than its comparison companies' growth, we ascribed this to the "ESOP effect". An ESOP company might well have outperformed the comparison companies before it set up its ESOP.

We excluded from our ESOP sample companies with business line combinations for which there were no comparison companies.

We then chose at least five comparison companies for every ESOP company from Dun & Bradstreet, for a total of 238.

In comparison, companies like LinkedIn have a relatively small float, a scarcity factor that can help support the stock.

By comparison, companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index had sales growth of 9.9percentt in the first quarter, on average, and 7.5percentt in the second.

During the five years after these companies instituted ESOPs, however, their annual employment growth outstripped that of the comparison companies by 5.05%, while sales growth was 5.4% faster.

A $1 investment in the comparison companies--Aachener und Munchener, Prudential Limited, and Cologne Re; Standard Chartered Ciments Francais Ericssonon and AEG; BP; and Wellcome--would have yielded $713.

Moneysupermarket.com has fallen nearly 5% after founder Simon Nixon sold £129.5m worth of shares in the price comparison company.

Prior to receiving this information I was approached by a comparison company offering me a price reduction for next year's contract.

Lewis, who has been juggling the roles of executive chairman and editor-in-chief since last September, founded the site with just £100 and sold it to price comparison company MoneySupermarket in 2012 a deal that netted him up to £87m.

Kayak Software filed to go public on Nov. 17, 2010, setting up expectations that within a matter of months, public shareholders would be able to buy a piece of the travel fare comparison company.