Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Benefits are rarely made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where companies must report the pay and options that… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them is difficult. Cases are filed… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies,… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Trust-me companies are companies whose financial results gallop ahead of their businesses, companies with seemingly perfect control over their quarterly sales and… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors.… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can continue… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
“If stupid people didn’t insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.” — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
“Rosette disappeared onto the dance floor. Wells sat in silence for a minute, watching the dancers. The worldwide cult of fast money spent stupidly.… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of shares available at the initial offering price. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
