Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It would be troubling if everything is determined by whether profits will be made within five to six years.
The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.
The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.
Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.
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