Sentence examples for valuations higher than from inspiring English sources

No wonder, then, that business spending on new plant and equipment has been so weak for so long: The sky-scraping stock market of the late 1990's (which indeed commanded valuations higher than those of 1929) induced enough corporate spending to sate demand and cause a recession.

Disguised behind the rise in the U.S. averages is a sharp fall in all but a handful of giant growth stocks, trading at valuations higher than those of the "Nifty Fifty" of the early Seventies.

Disguised behind the rise in the averages is a sharp fall in all but a handful of giant growth stocks, trading at valuations higher than those of the "Nifty-Fifty" of the early Seventies.

Either of these possibilities may justify a valuation higher than Mr. Blodget's.

Disney nevertheless still regularly trades at a stock market valuation higher than those of its competitors.

For eBay, selling Skype — particularly at a valuation higher than many analysts had thought possible — offers partial redemption for a deal that many Internet analysts said was an awkward fit.

Despite having a valuation higher than Groupon's, CYNK is an unknown.

This week, for instance, the viral news-and-cats site Buzzfeed got a $50m investment from one of Silicon Valley's leading venture capital funds, and now has a valuation higher than old media giants like the Washington Post.

Not that they needed it, but the story probably served to get more bidders in the deal, which will no doubt push the valuation higher than companies are already getting in these inflated times.

Wish, a San Francisco-based company whose e-commerce mobile app that's taken off in the U.S. and Europe by making it easy to buy everything from slippers to jackets to cosmetic brushes for rock-bottom prices, is raising $500 million in new funding at a valuation higher than its previous valuation of $3.5 billion but lower than $5 billion, reports Recode.

The investment comes on top of a significant secondary investment of at least $225 million made by Brightfolk, a Swedish firm controlled by a fashion magnate called Anders Holch Povlsen, at what we understand is a valuation higher than its previous $2.25 billion, which was reached in its last $80 million funding in 2015.