"How do you figure the underlying value of a stock without getting distracted from the noise?" Mr. Hamm asked.
Before agreeing to a deal, the Cable and Wireless directors will have to estimate the underlying value of the company's shares.
The difference between the counterparties' margin prices and underlying value of the securities created instability and variability in Carlyle Capital's repo financing arrangements, it said.
But it rejected as inadequate Mr. Icahn's offer to pay $1.3 billion for a 31percentt stake in Nabisco Group, which manufactures Ritz crackers and Oreo cookies, saying it "does not come close to reflecting the underlying value of the company's business".
Many have good yields, and their prices are at a wide enough discount to their net asset value (meaning the underlying value of their holdings) to be interesting.
The appeal would resist the litmus tests and the rhetoric of the base and instead speak to underlying values of fairness, compromise, inclusion, and citizenship, based on a vision of national rather than ideological or demographic identity.
Abandoning quantitative data analysis, Clorox conducted in-depth interviews and in-home ethnography to better understand the psychology, unmet needs, and underlying values of these "naturalists" — and what it would take for them to switch to green home cleaning products.
After 25 years of building a network of interdependent, national organizations delivering relief and development that are responsive to local needs, World Vision's International office is planning to implement a major global HIV/AIDS initiative that challenges the strategic direction, organizational capabilities, and even underlying values of its carefully constructed world partnership.
As the underlying values of our life change, the structure of our minds can shift to accommodate.
Bono, whose real name is Paul David Hewson, argued that the Republican presidential nominee threatens America's underlying values of justice and equality for all.
