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If SocGen's share price today is underperforming its French banking peers, this seems to have little to do with Mr Kerviel and his legacy.

With Citi's share-price growth lagging that of its main rivals, Mr Prince is impatient to turn things round.

"The best defence against takeovers is usually a strong share price and well-managed company, " said the group.

"It has always been viewed as a key risk and that's why the share price is not factoring in the value of the bid, " Dumaresq said.

"At least with family companies, getting the share price up remains some sort of common goal between managers and owners, " says Mr Scott.

But the idea that the company as a whole might be taken over has become significantly more likely as its share price has plummeted.

The company's share price is only now beginning to recover from this eruption of negative feeling.

On this shareholders seemed to have their doubts, at least judging from the 5 per cent slide in Berkshire's share price since Monday.

Almost every major product launch had gone well, its retail strategy had been a triumph and its share price was soaring.

It follows the issuing of a cautionary statement on Tuesday, which said the bank was in talks that could affect its share price.

Not bad at all, considering that the share price on the day before his departure was slightly less than it was when he took the job.

The effect on Berkshire's share price if Mr Buffet were to fall under a lorry or suddenly decided to retire to Tahiti would be catastrophic.

By early summer, however, with Merrill's share price continuing to fall, there was no evidence of a turnaround.

Meanwhile, Yahoo's chances of pushing its $22 share price up to the $33 Microsoft seemed prepared to pay in May are slim.

She failed to see previous share price crashes and was famous for her upwards forecasts.

Will all this be enough? So far, investors seem sceptical: Starbucks' share price remains barely a quarter of its all-time high in 2006.

PCCW believed in itself. If the company continued to do good things, ultimately the share price should turn around.

Circular ownership--with the potential for a pair of companies to prop up each other's share price and earnings--is not at all uncommon.

He added that this was the first time the company missed expectations in two years, and that is what hit the share price.

Then there was the ban on short selling (borrowing a share and selling it, to profit when its share price goes down) in financial stocks.

BP's share price, which had already taken a battering, dived to its lowest level in 13 years.

Its share price continued to take a hammering this week as investors worried about its balance sheet and business model.

He may have more to say if the share price does not liven up over the next year or so.

Some analysts said the steep fall in Baidu's share price is likely to be short-term.

"It will resolve investor uncertainty and provide shareholders with a substantial premium to our last traded share price, " he said.

Since the beginning of the year the mining group's previously battered share price has risen 36 per cent, tracking broader metals rises.

The ultimate amount paid out, if any, will not be clear until late March and will depend on the bank's earnings and share price.

But investors grumble that the company's share price underperforms those of its European rivals by a large margin.

Merrill's share price fell sharply and other Wall Street bank shares suffered on fears that there was more pain to come.

SINCE the start of this year, Google's share price has fallen steadily as investors have begun to fret about its longer-term prospects.

Fortis, a Dutch-Belgian bank, faced speculation that it would be unable to raise more capital as its share price fell by 10% on Friday.

For a start, the movement of the share price offers a minute-by-minute critical commentary on corporate performance and prospects.

Manganese will hope the news will cause its share price to turn as sharply as one of its cabs.

And since the deal was struck in February, Rio's share price rose enough to wipe out the premium Chinalco had offered.

However, the Swiss bank's share price soared after it confirmed it had secured underwriting for a SFr15 billion ($15 billion) rights issue.

Next, consider BP and the plans of the New York state pension fund and others to sue the company over the share price plunge.

A firm's share price on any given day, needless to say, can be a very poor guide to long-term shareholder value.

If the sky, and the share price, is falling, outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.

But Marc Smart, at Citigroup, said he was highly sceptical of the extreme share price rises.

And a few more Indians are now retail investors, encouraged by a small discount on the share price.

Besides, China's banks will not have to raise capital immediately, so a fleeting ramp-up in the share price will not help them.

No doubt he will be dismayed by yesterday's one-10th jump in the share price of the company he co-founded.

Sub debt provides much more market discipline than equity, because a bank in trouble with a weak share price is not forced to do anything.

When a company revives and its share price starts rising, such investors can sell their holdings for a handsome profit.

Even investors well-disposed to Mr Murdoch call him a "deal junkie" and speak of a "Murdoch discount" to the share price.

In its announcement, Berkshire stated that its businesses 'are worth considerably more' than the company's share price.

Coke's offer is HK$12. 20 a share in cash, almost treble that of Huiyuan's last closing share price prior to the announcement of the deal.

The company's share price fell sharply on the day of the announcement, wiping $7 billion from its market value.

French banks are hardly alone in Europe in having suffered steep share price falls since the start of this year.

Investors are now concentrating on what Lehman Brothers will do next, after the bank's precipitous share price fall.

The conglomerate's share price continued to fall over worries it might lose its top-notch credit rating.

Morgan Stanley's share price recovered somewhat after fears about the bank's exposure to Europe unnerved investors.

But, says Mr. Evans, with Nokia's share price falling so low, there is a risk that someone could come in and buy the company.

BofA's share price has been battered this year amid worries that it had inadequate capital.

The group's share price has been becalmed, like that of rivals, for the past two years.

Hoping to get IBM's share price up, Mr Palmisano has promised double-digit growth in earnings per share over the long term.

Having an exposure to a final-salary pension scheme is now a drag on a company's share price, not a boon.

If a new line of clothes is condemned by the critics, part of the fickleness of fashion, the company's share price will dive. ? ?

Analysts took the move as an indication that Alibaba. com may be peaking after a sustained rally in its share price since January this year.

Investors did not take kindly to the news: HP's share price dropped by 5% after the announcement.

HP's critics, however, claim that its boss has not done enough to arrest the sales slide, which has dented its share price.

They are concerned about managers doing things that drive up the share price quickly at the expense of a firm's lasting health.

Mr Byrne has started a lawsuit accusing hedge funds of colluding to drive down the company's share price.

As you say, the share price has fallen dramatically and that's not good news for any company.

"The dividend cut wasn't a total surprise, I don't know how they could maintain it with the current share price where it is, " she said.

Even unproved allegations of graft can damage the company's reputation, share price and future business prospects.

General Motors' share price fell to its lowest level since the Depression.

Her estimated wealth is about $8bn, based on her holdings and the company's closing share price yesterday.

Adolf Merckle, a wealthy German industrialist, committed suicide after making a wrong bet on the direction of Volkswagen's share price.

We will start with the dividend yield, which is defined as dividend received in a year divided by the share price.

Nokia's share price is down by a fifth since the Microsoft deal, signalling investor scepticism with the turnround.

Eg: Its financial success has set industrial records with the highest rise in share price of any business in its sector.

It found that these firms enjoyed a higher return on equity, fatter operating profits and a more buoyant share price.

That sort of news can affect our share price, so SOX may require us to disclose this information.

But by the time the Chinese group completed a shareholder reform needed for the deal to be completed, its share price was six times higher.

That meant that any falls in the bank's share price left it potentially nursing large losses.

The median share-price decline for all companies studied was 38% since the end of those companies' most recent fiscal years.

Local banks appear to share the confidence, extending margin loans for up to 90% of the initial share price.

Bank of America, whose share price has slumped by almost half this year, is now valued at about one-third of its assets.

The effect on the share price depends on the extent to which the market has already absorbed the lost value.

Their share price tends to rise as investors expect higher margins.

The company is hoping that the listing will support its share price, which fell 14 per cent last week after news of the deal.

If only the kids at the Googleplex could inch that share price up a bit.

The plunge in the share price of a listed British shop, 3i, probably exacerbated the sense of crisis there.

Sai Di medium recently share price transaction, numerous investor calls what the company asks a company to achieve send notional case.

Any dissenting investors are probably appeased by the meteoric rise in the company's share price, which has tripled since 2007.

IMI's share price, which has risen more than 70 per cent so far this year, was down 0. 1 per cent to 913p in morning trading in London.

If such a forced sale occurs, Citi faces the probability of complete share price collapse.

Barely three weeks after selling just 6% of its shares outstanding to the public, Groupon's share price is in free-fall.

Based on yesterday's share price, the value of CDB's investment in Barclays has roughly halved from when it bought the stake a year ago.

This caused their share price to drop, damaging investors who bought in at what they consider to be an artificially high price.

With its share price stagnant for years, Intel has been hunting for growth outside of the PC and computer server markets.

Sanofi's share price has come under pressure lately as a result of its acquisition of biotech giant Genzyme.

After the announcement, GM's share price plunged, and late last week it hit an 18-year low, though it has since recovered a bit.

Lululemon's share price shot up after its initial public offering in July. At its peak in October, the company was worth $4 billion.

BP's disaster has mired a regional economy, hammered the company's share price and dragged down the FTSE 100.

The hoopla surrounding BP's discovery is therefore justified, as was the rise in its share price.

Since then, investors have bid up Sanyo's share price amid growing interest in battery technology and a broader market rally.

It cut the company's rating to "sell" from "neutral, " while maintaining its share-price target.

Following his allegations of fraud and malfeasance, each of these companies has seen its share price tank.

However, BA's share price rose, as the decline in its premium traffic for October slowed considerably compared with recent months.

With the share price a fraction of what it was two years ago, they have more to gain than to lose by a throw of the dice.

Several recent projects have boosted NRG's share price. It has built a wind farm in Texas and started work on a solar farm in California.

In terms of Yahoo's share price, Mr Yang's period at the helm was a failure.

As Avon's share price has wilted like mascara under a sunlamp, Ms Jung is being pushed out for real.

Share-price movements, according to several studies, do not fit as closely with financial results as in other large markets.

Microsoft's share price has fallen by almost 20% since the beginning of this year, while the S&P 500 stockmarket index has risen by 4%.

In turn, this supports the share price on which (thanks to options) bosses' pay often depends.

Investment banks prefer to be judged on the longer-term share price performances of the companies.

Reflecting that, and a recognition of the competitive pressures in the sector, Youku's share price is 74% off its April peak.

Is the share price retreated up the process, due to the temporary rise too quickly fell back phenomenon.

The downside: Amazon's share price soars, in which case you would have done better by buying the shares outright.

Pfizer's share price fell by roughly a tenth on the news, though it later recovered a bit.

That is a pretty sizable ticket for a company with a falling share price, a declining market share and an untested product line.

Market-watchers had forecast the Link's share price would rise up to 10 per cent on its debut.

The share price declines coincided with the lifting of a ban on traders who aim to profit from share price declines .

you want to profit from a possible fall in the share price of a company? One way is to sell short its shares.

Other metrics highlight the shaky foundations on which ICBC's share price rests.

TWO weeks ago Hewlett-Packard was basking in the glory of a remarkable revival. The computer-maker's share price was soaring.

A measure of how changes in a share price correlate to overall movements in the share market as a whole.

Since then, the government has introduced regulations that require any sale of state assets to be based on the company's listed share price.

The gap between the best and worst share price performances is biggest in the earnings-per-share growth category.

Even though StanChart's share price fell, on a day when fear stalked the European banking sector, its outperformance continued apace.

The first problem relates to the aspect that most excites PE firms about delist-relist deals: the low share price in the U. S.

A fund-manager favourite whose share price has tripled over the past two years, Li & Fung is also arguably as central to Christmas as Santa.

That led to revenue and revenue forecast cuts, which led to more share price declines, which led to more revenue and revenue forecast cuts.

Its share price had already underperformed the rest of the market by more than 90 per cent during the past five years.

At the current share price is still Prev Close 1700 point level, midline band the opportunity to appear, may be bargain-band participation.

Frankfurt, Germany: Cash-Cow, a mascot, in front of the German share price index board, the Dax, at the stock exchange.

Enron's share price soared, the company benefited from high-level follow.

Over the past week, investors have punished him with an 11 per cent drop in Acer's share price.

So when a government ban on the advertising of Sina's fortune-telling phone - message service hammered its share price, Shanda swooped.

Most of their gains came from share options, as they cashed in on a share price that had soared along with the oil price.

regards current European share-price levels as "an extraordinary value opportunity" .

The share price, which bottomed near $12 in early 2003, is now hovering about $43, close to its 1999 high.

Citigroup's management believes that hedge funds for the air operation is the recent sharp share price dive .

Monetization of Ali-Loan earlier than expected would be an upside risk for share price.

The company's share price is dropping considerably faster.

This is possible if you buy a call with the exercise price equal to the current share price.

"Sure, push up the share price so institutional investors can sell, " sniped one international banker. Just another kabuya.

An improvement in accounting practices should have meant a closer correlation between earnings and the performance of the share price.

Unilever's low point came in September 2004, when its share price slumped after it shocked investors with a profits warning.

Having observed the beneficial impact of an LBO bid on a targeted company's share price, investors adjust.

Over the next few weeks, BlackRock's share price dropped by almost 25 per cent, enraging Fink.

Other things being equal, a post-offering leap in the share price would prove that AIA had been sold cheaply.

With ICBC's share price stuck at these levels, it looks like the world's biggest canary in the coal mine.

Even more shockingly, the share price now stands at $3. 98 - less than the cost of the paper on a Sunday.

Having repaid government support, its share price is back to three-quarters of its record high.

Resident shares, the share price after the process Riding on the baseline, and investors to be identified and tracked to.

Berkshire Hathaway's slumping share price soared after its board decided to buy back some of the firm's own stock.

Recession has favoured McDonald's over BK, whose share price has fallen by half since the economy was flame-grilled in the summer of 2008.

NYSE Euronext's share price fall suggests the market wants cost management to be his prime concern.

That's because Apple's profit, seemingly defying the law of large numbers, keeps growing faster than the share price.

Mr Alexander and his former colleagues are accused of backdating share options to value them at low points in Comverse's share price.

Blockbuster's share price plummeted by 77% in a day, causing the suspension of trading in its stock.

The company's share price has fallen about 20 percent in the last five years, closing on Wednesday at $19. 59 a share.

Shanghai Securities analyst Guo Yanling said using the H-share price as a psychological support for the A-shares is somewhat irrational.

Maybe Mr Kerkorian's long-term plan is really designed to be a short-term kick to GM's share price.

This week the search engine's share price rose above $500, valuing the company at more than $150 billion.

The company's share price doubled on his watch.

But if our net worth has tumbled along with the share price, it may be psychologically difficult to add to the position.

Recession has favoured McDonald's over BK, whose share price has halved since the economy was flame-grilled in the summer of 2008.

And Beijing will be able to shrug it off even if, heaven forbid, the share price bombs.

Supporters of the floating NAV concept have said changes in a fund's share price gauge its riskiness.

Small- or micro-cap stocks, due to low trading volume, usually incur higher risks and face increased volatility in share price.

Analysts had also been playing down share-price prospects until the two barons came on the scene.

Then the first "pro-shareholder" charter may be good: it leads to a high share price and makes the founder wealthy.

Other financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, have announced job cuts and suffered double-digit share price declines.

However, he pointed out that the two oversold bounce does not mean that the stock's share price has been stable.

The most curious episode so far has concerned the share price of Tokyu REIT, a listed trust.

Japan Airlines' share price may have plunged below Y10 but one set of investors has found some value in the struggling carrier.

A 10 per cent surge in the company's mainland share price on Christmas Day had taken it ahead of HSBC in the rankings.

But Li Ning has since seen its profits and share price plunge and is rethinking its ambitious branding strategy.

They are desperate to rescue their investment, made in 2007 when Carrefour's share price was more than twice as high as it is today.

Market watchers believe that fears about the approvals process might account for the sudden fall in Huiyuan's share price last week.

Ms Furse defends independence by pointing to a soaring share price (see chart) and strong results.

Its share price has held up fairly well despite stockmarket turmoil and dramatically higher costs for raw materials, notably aluminium.

Nonetheless, Xerox's share price fell sharply when the deal was announced, before recovering much of the lost ground.

key performance indications include: profits, turnover, share price, sales volume, dividend, etc.

RBS's share price did not improve.

Today, Amazon is a growth company in terms of earnings and share price.

The share price has risen more than tenfold since the change of strategy.

Ignoring Wall Street exacted an immediate toll on Google's share price, which represents an increasingly important weapon for Google.

key performance indicators include: profits, turnover, share price, sales volume, dividend, etc.

A sharp drop in GM's share price and speculation about a possible bankruptcy filing have complicated efforts to raise capital.

Whirlpool's profits have disappointed, and its share price has tumbled by nearly a third since April.

Apple's two main rivals in Asia got a lift in their share price after Apple boss Steve Jobs stepped down.

Tarpon's own share price is up by 143% from a year ago.

They compare intrinsic value to a company's share price to arrive at a star rating.

BG's share price has only slightly outperformed, declining 4 per cent since the announcement against a 6 per cent fall for the sector.

The deal values Nyfix at $144m, including net debt, and represents a 95 per cent premium to the company's closing share price on Wednesday.

In nervous anticipation, Bank of America's share price suddenly dipped when he spoke.

But investors tend to anticipate a big equity-raising by selling the shares, and a falling share price makes an equity issue less likely.

Dell, the leading PC-maker, issued a profit warning last week that sent its share-price to a five-year low.

Earlier this week, several analysts downgraded performance estimates and share-price targets for Samsung.

Lockheed Martin's investors doubt this will happen to the F-35: the share price has been remarkably stable over the past two years.

"Revenue growth overrides the hiring and the expense issues, " BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis said in response to the share price jump.

Just now, much of it is directed at Citigroup, which is under pressure to cut costs and raise its share price.

The dilution does not appear to have hurt Ford's share price, which is up four-fold since late February.

It requires central bankers to second guess the markets, to assume that they know more about share price values than investors do.

Mr Zhang's company, Rongsheng, has seen its share price see-saw since it listed in November, underlining the uncertainty the sector faces.

It's designed to protect shareholders by requiring that companies disclose information that might affect the share price.

That hurt Yahoo's share price, even after Yahoo and Alibaba reached a settlement over the incident.

That meant they had no incentive to pump up their share price or earnings through dealing in dubious products.

The "I love Jack" premium baked into the share price under Mr Immelt's celebrated predecessor, Jack Welch, has long gone.

Its share price, which had fallen from more than $12 in June 2008 to under $2 in January 2009, suddenly rose by half.

A number of top executives of several other banks face charges of corruption and share price manipulation.

Sinovel's share price has fallen more than 70 per cent over the same period due to disappointing results.

News, the bank has risen sharply in the past five trading days rose nearly 15. 6%, the share price has been hitting new high.

The total is 33 percent more than SSL's closing share price yesterday, the bidder said.

Blue Capital, its unhappy main shareholder, has relentlessly pushed the sale of assets to prop up Carrefour's sagging share price.

Wal-Mart's share price is around where it was 12 months ago, though up sharply from its low earlier this year.

In a sign of the uncertainty, Apple's share price fell on overseas markets Monday.

Its share price may have tanked for days afterwards, but Nintendo probably "won" this year's press conference face-off.

Despite that, chief executives argue that guidance can help reduce share price volatility and boost valuations.

That means that, at JAL's current share price, its investor discount could be worth twice the minimum stock buy-in.

Each of its past four earnings updates have sparked a 10 per cent or so rise or fall in its share price.

The share price is essential to the smooth issue of shares and ensuring the stability of the stock market.

A similar CCTV report three years ago hammered Baidu's share price and prompted a revamp of its ad-selling system.

Yet the share price of Siemens, its European rival, has jumped 39% during the same period, despite a corruption scandal (see chart).

The share price for that company is increasing now.

Pfizer Inc. 's (PFE) share price is down by a third over the past year because of flat growth and a weak product pipeline.

It ended up being scrapped due to adverse market conditions, leading to sharp falls in Xingye's share price.

When it saw its share price tripling, it could raise money cheaper by issuing new shares to pay down its debt.

Shareholders in BMS may welcome a bid premium to help perk up the share price which is currently at a 13-year low of $18. 50.

Improving commodities markets, and Rio's rising share price, meant the Chinalco deal made less and less commercial sense.

Big losses in the share price could make it more difficult to raise capital. Much needed capital, I should add.

Washington Mutual, a Seattle-based thrift, has suffered the largest share-price decline of the ten.

Prosecutors have appealed against a judgment in June that acquitted Lone Star of charges of share-price manipulation.

The risk in this move is that this slight rise in Yahoo's share price won't last long.

THERE are few things more embarrassing for an analyst than issuing a sell notice on a stock when the share price has already slumped.

An international metals and oil company was posting terrible numbers--- sales and profits were down, as was share price.

In the short term some of the old ways to perk up your share price now seem suicidal.

And SIA has bargaining chips too: were it to walk away, CEA's share price could well fall sharply on both markets.

"I am convinced that the share price will rise a lot from where we are now, " he said.

Various delays meant the deal could not be completed until recently - since when the SDB share price has climbed nearly eightfold.

or by a narrowing of the gap between share price and underlying business value.

Doing that, and doing it profitably, would, over the years, be reflected in the share price.

An improvement in Batu's share price in the near future could be influenced by its impeding half year results.

A plunging share price may be the biggest disincentive to the corrupters of the weak and greedy.

The median one-year shareholder return for companies in the survey was 21%, including share-price appreciation and reinvested dividends.

Apple lost direction in the years after Jobs was ousted, its share price slumping to an all-time low before his return.

And that equity will be issued at a preset share price well above current levels.

Share price soaring on the news of the takeover bid or the news of the takeover bid sent share price soaring .

Revenue growth had to slow, given Apple's size, and that was reflected in the share price already.

The change of guard may prompt investors to reassess the firm and give its share price a corresponding boost, say analysts.

The A$13-a-share price was made public in September after talks between the two groups were disclosed in July.

Often, such suits are filed after a sharp drop in a company's share price, causing losses to investors.

Last month, worries about accounting practices at Softbank, the one-time darling stock, sent the share price down 15 per cent in two days.

The bid price represents a 47 percent premium to Addax's share price on June 5, before media reports of a bid emerged, the companies said.