Sentence examples for underlying businesses from inspiring English sources

The market value of Yahoo's underlying businesses has actually fallen slightly since Mayer arrived.

Despite its net loss, Barclays is making progress as its underlying businesses show signs of improvement.

Investors will be looking for signs that the banks' underlying businesses are improving.

Cash flow is a key measure of the performance of indebted companies like Time Warner because it excludes interest payments and focuses on the underlying businesses.

"We are highly confident of the strength of our underlying businesses and our operating performance," said James L. Dolan, Cablevision's chief executive officer, in a statement.

Unfortunately, they shared the management class's shortsighted focus on extracting the maximum amount of compensation from companies, even in the face of the underlying businesses' failing strength.

"We try to buy businesses at substantial discounts to the underlying business value," he added.

During this whole mess the underlying business has performed very well.

Jason Ader, an analyst at William Blair & Company, said it could reflect underlying business issues.

Or are they troubled firms whose executives have turned to wild conspiracy theories to divert attention from underlying business problems?

The economists reckon underlying business productivity growth is now around 2.5% (or around 2.2% in the overall economy).