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Fortress Posts Loss, stock price Falls: BOSTON (Reuters) - Fortress Investment Group LLC (FIG) reported a quarterly loss on Thursday and its share price fell sharply after its hedge fund business suffered in turbulent market conditions. The 10-year-old company, one of only a handful of publicly traded...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Financial accounting, Fortress Investment Group LLC, hedge fund, quarterly loss, private equity company, private equity, Boston, stock price, stock, asset, Thomson Reuters Corp., earnings, revenue, net income, analyst, performance; News items 2008-05-08
stock prices and the Investment of Equity-Dependent Firms: This paper is about a simple model of corporate investment to determine when investment will be sensitive to non-fundamental movements in stock prices. The key cross-sectional prediction of the model is that stock prices will have a stronger impact on the investment of firms that are 'equity dependent' - firms...; Tags: Financial accounting, stock price, equity, investment, stock, finance; White papers
Central Bank Policy, Inflation, and stock prices: Much of the fall was attributed to comments about inflation and stock prices made by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to the House of Representatives Committee on the Budget. The comments did not, however, clarify the nature of these implied relationships. On the one hand, Greenspan stated that, “Re-emergence of...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Bank of Canada, inflation, Alan Greenspan, stock price, stock, knowledge, bank; White papers
Assessing Price-Earnings Ratio: The price/earnings ratio (P/E) reveals the relationship between the price of a stock and the income it generates.P/E is one way of looking at the value of a stock. In theory, the faster investors expect a company to grow, the higher its P/E is likely to be. This is because...; Tags: Financial accounting, BNET Editorial, earnings per share, stock, investor, investment, stock price, analyst, theory, income, financial, industry; Articles 2007-10-15
Business Models, Transparency And Efficient stock price Formation: The purpose of this paper has been to clarify and provide expert advice on how to create a sufficiently transparent business model. Too many companies are assessed solely on the basis of factors that have direct influence on their share price, for example changed depreciation principles and the lack of...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, share price, stock price, shareholder, benefit, stock; White papers 2007-03-26

Calculating Return on Assets: Return on Assets is a measure of a company’s profitability expressed as a percentage of its total assets, not to be confused with return on capital employed—a nebulous phrase demanding a definition of capital—or return on equity.Return on Assets, also called return on investment, measures how effectively a company has...; Tags: Asset management, BNET Editorial, net income, asset, working capital, investor, sustainability, banking, stock price, ROI, manufacturing, performance, stock, industry; Articles 2007-07-16
An Introduction to Real Options: The development and use of derivative securities in the financial markets has become more and more common in recent years. And while the mathematical models employed in derivative construction and pricing can seem intimidating, investors may be surprised to learn that these complex investment vehicles are not confined within the...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Investopedia, stock price, financial market, stock, wall, pricing strategy, financial, security; White papers 2006-02-07
Float Manipulation And stock prices: Firms can manipulate their stock price by restricting the tradable float. When risk averse investors have differences of opinion and are short-sale constrained, reductions in the float freeze out pessimistic investors, pushing up prices. When the float is released, prices fall. To formally test this idea, the author examines a...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, stock price, investor, stock, theory; White papers 2006-01-18
A Breakdown of Stock Buybacks: There are a number of ways in which a company can return wealth to its shareholders. Although stock price appreciation and dividends are the two most common ways of doing this, there are other useful, and often overlooked, ways for companies to share their wealth with investors. This paper, will...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Investopedia, buyback, stock buyback, investor, dividend, stock price, stock, shareholder; White papers 2005-12-09
European Union Enlargement and Equity Markets in Accession Countries: The announcement of the European Union enlargement coincided with a dramatic rise in stock prices in accession countries. This paper investigates the hypothesis that the rise in stock prices was a result of the repricing of systematic risk due to the integration of accession countries into the world market. It...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, IMF, stock price, European Union, stock, equity; White papers 2005-09-01
Forces That Move stock prices: Different types of investors depend on different factors. Short-term investors and traders tend to incorporate and may even prioritize technical factors. Long-term investors prioritize fundamentals and recognize that technical factors play an important role. Investors who believe strongly in fundamentals can reconcile themselves to technical forces with the following popular...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Investopedia, stock price, investor, trader, finance, stock, financial; White papers 2004-10-08
Do stock prices Really Reflect Fundamental Values? The Case of REITs: Real estate investment trust (REIT) stock prices deviate substantially from net asset values (NAV). Using REIT data since 1990, the paper finds large positive excess returns to a strategy of buying stocks that trade at a discount to NAV, and shorting stocks trading at a premium to NAV. Estimated alphas...; Tags: Investment, National Bureau of Economic Research, stock price, stock, REIT, liquidity, strategy, real estate; White papers 2004-10-01
stock price, Earnings and Book Value in Managerial Performance Measures: This paper develops a multi-period principal-agent model in which a manager must be given incentives to undertake investments and to exert personally costly effort. Investments are "soft" (e.g., intangible assets) and therefore entail measurement errors for the accounting system as it seeks to separate investments from operating expenditures. This separation...; Tags: Financial accounting, Stanford University, stock price, incentive, investment, stock, accounting system, stock market, accounting, asset; White papers 2004-10-01
Impact of U.S.- Canada Softwood Lumber Trade Dispute on Forest Products Companies: A Stock Market Perspective: This paper examines the impact of a series of events related to the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber trade dispute on the stock prices of forest products firms in both countries. The results suggest that trade actions brought substantial gains or losses in the stock prices and that, with the exception of...; Tags: Investment, Auburn University, stock price, stock, stock market, U.S.; White papers 2004-08-05
The Impact of U.S. Firms' Investments in Human Capital on stock prices: This paper reports a study that relates training expenditures to subsequent-year stock returns for 388 U.S. companies for the 1997-1999 time periods. This study finds that expenditures on training have a statistically significant positive effect on returns, even after adjusting for variables such as ROA, industry, and price momentum. Findings...; Tags: Workforce management, Investment, interpersonal communication, training, human capital, stock, stock price, industry; White papers 2004-06-01
Apply Customer Value Analytics To Boost Your stock price: From the executive summary: ‘Lenders, shareholders, and customers provide the money to fund organizational operations. Each of them has a different objective in doing so. While lenders and shareholders seek a risk-adjusted return on capital, customers seek the value-added delivery of products and/or execution of services. Therefore, it is only...; Tags: Financial accounting, Acorn Systems, shareholder, Economic Value Added, stock price, stock, financial, performance; White papers 2004-03-22
An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Impact of Federal Terrorism Reinsurance: This paper examines the role of the federal government in the market for terrorism reinsurance. The objective of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on whether TRIA has had the intended economic effects by studying the stock price reaction of firms in the industries most affected by the Act...; Tags: Real estate, Investment, National Bureau of Economic Research, REIT, Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, reinsurance, terrorism, stock price, transportation, banking, insurance, analysis, stock, industry; White papers 2004-03-01
Do stock price Bubbles Influence Corporate Investment?: From the executive summary: ‘Building on recent developments in behavioral asset pricing, experts have developed a model in which an increase in the dispersion of investor beliefs under short-selling constraints predicts a bubble or a rise in stock’s price above its fundamental value. The model predicts that managers respond to...; Tags: Investment, Asset management, Federal Reserve Bank, bubble, stock price, asset pricing, stock, equity, asset; White papers 2004-02-01
REIT Reversion: stock price Adjustments to Fundamental Value: This paper looks at the prices of another kind of investment trust: real estate investment trusts (REITs). REITs are not the same as closed-end funds, because REITs own (and often operate) relatively illiquid real estate assets. It documents that real estate investment trust (REIT) stock prices deviate from net asset...; Tags: Investment, Columbia University, REIT, real estate, stock price, stock, strategy; White papers 2004-01-26
Consolidation in the European Insurance Industry: Do Mergers and Acquisitions Create Value for Shareholders?: The objective of this paper is to determine whether (Mergers and Acquisitions) M&As in the European insurance market create value for shareholders by studying the stock price impact of M&A transactions on target and acquiring firms. The stock price effects are measured using a standard market model event study analysis....; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Financial accounting, University of Pennsylvania, M&A, stock price, stock, shareholder, analysis; White papers 2004-01-08