Sentence examples for return on shareholders from inspiring English sources

Wonga's return on shareholders' equity is about 30% and after-tax profit margins are 20%.

In accounting jargon, a firm with a low return on its assets could use leverage to bolster its return on shareholders' equity.

Mr. Hill said that the bank's profitability was excellent, and noted that return on shareholders' equity was up almost 20percentt in the most recent quarter.

Return on shareholders' equity was 33percentt, up from 31percentt a year earlier, but down from an unusually high 36percentt in the first quarter.

As evidence, he pointed out that Merrill had a 31percentt return on shareholders equity last quarter and its highest pretax profit margin -- 21.7percentt -- in six years.

As for a return on shareholders' equity of 12-15%, that now looks out of reach in a world where regulators oblige big international banks to hold more capital.

InfoSpace, which is listed on NASDAQ and has a market cap of approximately $435 million, says the transaction is expected to be accretive to its earnings per share straight away, and that year one return on shareholder capital is expected to exceed 16percentt.

On the other hand, it managed to produce a return on shareholder equity of only 5 percent for the year, compared to 10.7 percent at its rival Goldman Sachs.

The best corporate citizens list, which includes Hewlett-Packard, Intel, General Mills, I.B.M. and Kimberly-Clark, had a total return on shareholder value of 2.37 percent over three years.

The total return on shareholder funds rose to 26.8% from 22.5%, thanks to stock market growth and the current enthusiasm for takeovers and buyouts which have fuelled the value of its investments.

That was down from 473 the previous year but the pace of reform is snail-like when you consider that Barclays' return on shareholder equity – a pure measure of profitability – was just 7.8%.