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Industries across the globe have struggled in 2020, but there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Companies can be broadly categorized into three types when it comes to their financial ...
Owned by the Medici family, it ran up large debts due to the family's profligate spending, extravagant lifestyle, and failure to control the managers. Mississippi Company: France: Sep 1720: Colonialism: Scottish economist John Law convinced the French government to support a monopoly trade venture in Louisiana. He marketed shares based on great ...
On November 24, 2008, Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) wrote, "In bailing out failing companies, they are confiscating money from productive members of the economy and giving it to failing ones. By sustaining companies with obsolete or unsustainable business models, the government prevents their resources from being liquidated and made available to ...
The airline industry took a sizable hit to the tune of $35 billion in 2020, according to CNBC. American Airlines’ stock dropped 45% in 2020, while Delta lost 31% and United plummeted 51%.
The company failed less than a year later when it became apparent that its technologies were fraudulent or misrepresented. Its founder had been a convicted felon who changed his name. PLX Technology: Shares rose fivefold within months of its IPO. Prodigy: An ISP whose stock price doubled on its first day of trading.
Margins matter. The more EnPro Industries (NYS: NPO) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to shareholders.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't is a management book by Jim C. Collins that describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies, and how most companies fail to make the transition.
The for-profit education industry has attracted some serious public relations problems these days -- not to mention regulatory scrutiny. However, this industry's report card fails on many levels ...