Probably cheaper to pay executives more and lay more people off than to pay executives less and lay less people off.
If you lay off 3,000 workers who makes $50,000 per year each while still maintaining similar levels of revenue, that is saving $150,000,000 per year. Throwing five executives an extra $10,000,000 each in bonus will still save you $100,000,000 per year.
Except increasing or decreasing CEO salary doesn't change your productivity at all. You can still make product at the same rate. Laying off 20% of your workforce probably results in more than a 20% drop in productivity.
i wonder what's the ROI for increasing CEO pay?
In general, all the publicly-available data indicates that it has a statistically negligible impact on company performance.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
they complain that very little work has been done recently.
Aside from the VTTs you mean? Both of them?
Many will get little to no use from those tools for various reasons, but many would benefit from patches to bug reports as old as the site, regardless of who currenyly owns the site. Who wants to buy in to a system that is more focused on marketing to new customers than providing fixes to complaints that are years old and hundreds of forum pages deep?
In the software business, fixing bugs for existing code is never as sexy as working on the Next Thing. ;)
Yes but getting people to continue to purchase/subscribe without finishing past projects makes it hard to pay for working on the Next Thing.
Agreed. But that doesn't stop 'them' from trying! But as long as the software provides enough usability that users can get by, users will stick with it. Sure, they'll gripe and leave comments on message boards, :-) but the users will still pay the company and plod on.
Hasbro's stock has been downgraded to Neutral (not Buy anymore), and target price lowered from 60 dollars to 53. Analyst that wrote the article below doesnt predict they have enough cash flow to pay their $400million dividends to shareholders this year (for the 2nd year running apparently), so they wont meet their 2.5x EBITDA goal (a financial ratio of company value compared to costs,
Explains why they were slashing costs in order to pay shareholders at this point. Their massive staff cutting was focussed more on the plastic toys side of their company, with not many taken from WotC, but it does leave D&D and MtG seemingly as their only potential saviours.
My table and I expect this'll lead to heavy advertising and monetization of products this year, as they need to make a lot of money fast.
Hasbro's stock has been downgraded to Neutral (not Buy anymore), and target price lowered from 60 dollars to 53. Analyst that wrote the article below doesnt predict they have enough cash flow to pay their $400million dividends to shareholders this year (for the 2nd year running apparently), so they wont meet their 2.5x EBITDA goal (a financial ratio of company value compared to costs,
Explains why they were slashing costs in order to pay shareholders at this point. Their massive staff cutting was focussed more on the plastic toys side of their company, with not many taken from WotC, but it does leave D&D and MtG seemingly as their only potential saviours.
My table and I expect this'll lead to heavy advertising and monetization of products this year, as they need to make a lot of money fast.
That is an interesting reflection on the difference between US and UK trade styles. Do you have an average of other analysts, or are you waiting to see what the consensus is?
NASDAQ's current average for this week still has it as a Buy, based on am average target of $60.4 (high of 78, low of 52), and includes the DA Davidson analyst as part of the set -- the full list being:
B OF A GLBL RES
CITIGROUP
DAVIDSON D A
GOLDMAN SACHS
JP MORGAN SECUR
MORGAN STANLEY
ROTH CAPITAL PA
STIFEL NICOLAUS
UBS
ZACKS RESEARCH
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Waiting to see the consensus. DA Davidson is an outlier at the moment to be sure. But if they cant meet EBITDA then I'd imagine that the average target is going to slip lower. In a week or so we may be able to pick up a trend analysis.
Worth clarifying though I'm just a statistics nerd, not a trader :p
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In general, all the publicly-available data indicates that it has a statistically negligible impact on company performance.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Agreed. But that doesn't stop 'them' from trying! But as long as the software provides enough usability that users can get by, users will stick with it. Sure, they'll gripe and leave comments on message boards, :-) but the users will still pay the company and plod on.
Hasbro's stock has been downgraded to Neutral (not Buy anymore), and target price lowered from 60 dollars to 53. Analyst that wrote the article below doesnt predict they have enough cash flow to pay their $400million dividends to shareholders this year (for the 2nd year running apparently), so they wont meet their 2.5x EBITDA goal (a financial ratio of company value compared to costs,
https://m.uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/hasbros-stock-outlook-dims-analyst-downgrades-to-neutral-amid-persisting-industry-headwinds-3284641
Explains why they were slashing costs in order to pay shareholders at this point. Their massive staff cutting was focussed more on the plastic toys side of their company, with not many taken from WotC, but it does leave D&D and MtG seemingly as their only potential saviours.
My table and I expect this'll lead to heavy advertising and monetization of products this year, as they need to make a lot of money fast.
That is an interesting reflection on the difference between US and UK trade styles. Do you have an average of other analysts, or are you waiting to see what the consensus is?
NASDAQ's current average for this week still has it as a Buy, based on am average target of $60.4 (high of 78, low of 52), and includes the DA Davidson analyst as part of the set -- the full list being:
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Waiting to see the consensus. DA Davidson is an outlier at the moment to be sure. But if they cant meet EBITDA then I'd imagine that the average target is going to slip lower. In a week or so we may be able to pick up a trend analysis.
Worth clarifying though I'm just a statistics nerd, not a trader :p