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How to use the word accretive in a Sentence?

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Investors are just as likely to criticize or punish companies for unfocused acquisitions where they have overpaid for unproven, non-earnings accretive benefits.

Frances Hudson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Investors are just as likely to criticise or punish companies for unfocused acquisitions where they have overpaid for unproven, non-earnings accretive benefits.

Frances Hudson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

General Assembly is currently in a high-growth investment phase and is therefore expected to be modestly dilutive to Group earnings in 2018, the impact of which is included within the group's current guidance on planned strategic investments, from 2019, General Assembly is expected to be modestly accretive to earnings.

Adecco Group

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

There will be revenue tied to these advertising deals, but without big user numbers we doubt it will be significantly accretive.

Pacific Crest analyst Evan Wilson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

With the highly accretive sale of Access, Devon's divestiture program is now complete with proceeds totaling $ 3.2 billion, surpassing the top end of our $ 2 billion to $ 3 billion guidance range.

Chief Executive Dave Hager

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It is tough to find things which are value accretive in the current market and there are lots of assets out there right now.

Officer Brian Gilvary

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The financials will work in time, admittedly perhaps not as originally hoped, but we still see this deal as accretive within a two- to three-year timeframe.

Jason Kenney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Prices have come down and, as a result, some companies are a bit more attractive than they used to be, but prices still remain quite high, it's not that easy to find acquisitions that can be accretive immediately.

Chief Executive Pascal Soriot

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are not going to do any additional acquisitions that would increase the size of our pipeline. We would consider acquisitions that would be accretive, meaning they would generate additional earnings immediately.

Chief Executive Pascal Soriot

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This deal makes sense if over the next 20-30 years the oil price is above the low $60s. At that level it is value accretive. I think that’s an entirely reasonable, sensible risk to take.

Chief Executive Ben van Beurden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Can we do something that would be accretive by year three? to be able to do that, you can't do a big wealth acquisition, you can't do a big asset management acquisition.

Commerce Chief Executive Victor Dodig

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It should be quite accretive, we will get some synergies with this deal.

Michael Pearson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Hutchison has been disciplined in only doing deals that are accretive to earnings and cash flow, and we would expect that to be the case if a deal gets done with Wind.

Hong Kong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If our stock is trading again at what we consider accretive levels for us to buy it back, we'd like to be in a position to do that sooner as opposed to later, below 10 times earnings we feel that it is significantly accretive for us to buy back our shares.

Chief Executive Louis Vachon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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