Sentence examples for shareholder total from inspiring English sources

A study out this week from the Boston Consulting Group found that Tencent had the highest shareholder total return (share-price appreciation plus dividends) of any large firm globally from 2008 to 2012 topping Amazon and even Apple.Tencent has created a better business model than its Western peers.

But it far exceeded the median gain in shareholders' total return, which was 16 percent, as well as the median gain in revenue, which was 7 percent.

Mr Dehecq has also secured the backing of Sanofi's biggest shareholders: Total, an oil company, and L'Oréal, a cosmetics company.

If in fact managers are motivated to maximize the value of their shareholders' total portfolios, inter-industry diversification interests would likely more than offset any competition-softening incentive driven by intra-industry diversification.

Considerations may include, among others, identity of shareholders, total shareholder return of the company in recent years, both in absolute terms and relative to peers, identity and track record of activists, nature of an activist platform, size of equity capitalization, the media profile of the company and activists, and overall governance profile of the company.

The decision about whether to proceed with the hostile offer came after a weekend of marathon meetings at which the boards of Sanofi-Synthélabo's two largest shareholders, Total and L'Oréal, met separately to consider how to proceed.

Of course, a particular payout could increase shareholders' total income over time if the returns the cash yields outside the firm are greater than those it would have yielded inside the firm.

"The remaining…equity compensation is based solely on successfully delivering to GE's shareholders total returns equal to or better than the broader market," it said.

As for the dividends paid by Exxon and the other oil giants, there may be a lot of shareholders, total -- including a lot of pension funds and mutual funds -- but the vast majority of shares are held by a very small elite.

Shareholders totaling about 20% of the shares have already said they'll vote no.

While a dividend is effectively a cash bonus amounting to a percentage of a shareholder's total stock value, however, a stock buyback requires the shareholder to surrender stock to the company to receive cash.