Sentence examples for shareholder performance from inspiring English sources

"The big bonuses have spread to thousands of people around the globe and particularly with the poor shareholder performance, that is what is so puzzling about it".

Prudential, Britain's largest life insurer and, but for its Egg online bank, the epitome of dullness, trounced those same banks in an index of global financial firms' shareholder performance published by Oliver, Wyman, a consultancy.

Having return on equity (a measure of shareholder performance) that is greater than the cost of equity (the cost of doing business) and also have core tier one capital ratio (a measure of financial strength) of 10.5%, up from 9.3% now.

The company confessed to the error last month when it told the stock market that it had erroneously stated that performance criteria linked to total shareholder return, a measure of shareholder performance, were linked to awards of shares intended to compensate the chief executive for €775,000 forfeited when he left PPR.

But the truth is that controlled companies are built for corporate comfort, not shareholder performance.

Corporate governance, now more than ever, turns on shareholder and on shareholder performance.

Instead of aligning the interests of bosses and shareholders, "performance-related" pay frequently promotes opportunism and tunnel-vision.Such findings are not new.

In the report, chairman of the company's remuneration committee, Lord Davies of Abersoch said: "The company has delivered exceptionally strong three-year total shareholder return performance relative to its peer group for the performance period that ended on 30 June 2013".

The company said that while it "recognized that total shareholder return performance was delivered in a difficult business environment, it also felt that more closely aligning the experience of shareholders and executives was important".

We need to revive the debate about all the wrongs committed in the name of delivering value to shareholders, and performance-based compensation is the tip of that particular iceberg.

Yet even if Tata has a higher purpose than mere shareholder value, bad performance is not in its interest: its businesses are there to generate profits for its charitable trusts to distribute, rather than to be charities themselves.