In case you want to sell only a portion of a profitable block of shares, it is generally advisable to sell the highest-cost ones first, though in some cases you would fare better by selling less costly shares if they qualify for long-term capital gains treatment.
If Bayer proceeds with its plan to acquire drug companies, Mr. Shrager continued, it may end up using its modestly valued stock, which reflects the low-margin chemical business, to acquire costlier shares that reflect the high-margin drug business.
The pasquinade and lampoonery has a high price: If the amateurs manage to wheedle an investment promise out of Buffett, everyone in the class gets a B share of the Berkshire Hathaway investment behemoth, one of the costliest shares around.
The app makes it easy to create beautiful albums, but difficult, or at least costly, to share.
Stock options become more costly as share prices rise.
See Nozick's trenchant critique of the principle of fairness that requires all those who benefit from others' costly cooperation share in those costs (90 5).
Before smartphones and Facebook, smaller gaming studios often had to work with publishers and give up a costly revenue share in exchange for marketing and distribution in the console era.
The other, often the least tax-efficient, is the first-in, first-out method, in which you sell your oldest -- and perhaps least costly -- shares.
Buffett crows about Geico, but the auto casualty business is tough and gaining market share costly and hard won.
Kin recognition could affect higher motivation to invest and share costly enzymes in S. tentoriicola, whereas non-sibs may save digestive enzymes rather than sharing them.
