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"overpay" Definitions
  1. overpay somebody to pay somebody too much; to pay somebody more than their work is worth

254 Sentences With "overpay"

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During his appearance on Squawk Box, Warren Buffett said he and partner 3G Capital did not overpay for Heinz, but did overpay when Heinz acquired Kraft Foods.
Or you might overpay for something that you're attached to.
But I did overpay my taxes and cost myself money.
That led Medicaid and Medicare to both overpay for the product.
Soulless corporations pollute the planet, overpay their bosses and gouge consumers.
I only owe $280/month, but I overpay over each month.
Free agency will be difficult without enough cap space to overpay.
Anbang is willing to overpay because it is converting Chinese currency.
By not overpaying now, they've just guaranteed that they'll overpay later.
Coupe has repeatedly said Sainsbury will not overpay for Home Retail.
According to their research, teams systematically overpay for first-round draft picks.
But Chevron CEO Michael Wirth told analysts last month he won't overpay.
A $2 Billion Question: Did New York and Virginia Overpay for Amazon?
Certainly, his tax professionals have not advised him to overpay his taxes.
However, nothing in the CBA requires teams to overpay veteran free agents.
I just keep an eye out and don't let myself overpay regularly.
They'll need just as long to convince themselves that they didn't overpay.
The information can be used to ensure you never overpay or undersell.
I promise, it's not that I like to overpay for crappy products.
When you overpay your state taxes, the state sends you a refund.
It goes without saying that no one wants to overpay on their taxes.
We will overpay for you and jettison current employees to make this happen.
Should the Oilers absolutely overpay for a player that will make them immediately better?
Overpay for prudence by too much and it can start to look like financial recklessness.
It's the sort of space you might visit to overpay $500 for a messenger bag.
If you overpay your taxes during the year, you get a refund the following spring.
Still, he worried that the government would overpay for the shares, endangering other government priorities.
In fact, a bit more than half of all borrowers overpay on their car loans.
All I know is that I might overpay for an always-cool pillow, just not Moona's.
Many analysts described the deal as an aggressive overpay on Microsoft's part, but Cramer didn't agree.
If you claim zero allowances, you may overpay the IRS, but you'll bring home less pay.
I didn't want to risk it with the cheapest option, but also didn't want to overpay.
But since he's just 25 years old, someone will probably be intrigued enough to overpay him.
Democrats and Republicans had argued over how to ensure the government doesn't overpay for these products.
It helps to understand what types of items have the best promotions, so you don't overpay.
Some other Bayer investors have also expressed concerns the company may overpay to secure a deal.
Get in the habit of using one of these apps regularly and you'll never overpay again.
If a product or service has a market, someone somewhere is willing to overpay wildly for it.
If you overpay for your data in a given month, the service simply refunds you the difference.
Lukoil has said it would not overpay for the company, whose market capitalization is around $10 billion.
Anyone who wanted to court favor with the president could snap up multiple properties or purposefully overpay.
"Consumers confuse the income guarantee with a guaranteed return and they overpay because of it," said Ruiz.
He's clearly betting the value will only go up, and someone will overpay him down the line.
The data can help you as a buyer to better assess the market so you'll never overpay.
We give our kids summer work in our companies and overpay for their private schools and universities.
No, I won't overpay for names that I believe may come down if the selling pressure continues.
It's named after a designer, which is the official international signal that you're going to overpay for something.
And even if a team has to overpay, sometimes a bad gamble still works out in the end.
Sweeney didn't overpay to re-sign free agent Loui Eriksson ... but he overpaid for free agent David Backes?
"People are not willing to overpay for a plane; there's a lot more caution out there," he said.
The amount is left up to the donor, a custom that leads many to overpay, Mr. Soko said.
Don't overpay for Boogie Cousins when you can get a better defender with no rampant locker room concerns.
If you're going to overpay for free agents, those are the guys on which you dump the cash.
But one fund manager who owns Berkshire Hathaway stock thinks Buffett is smart to not overpay for deals.
"It's possible for a city to overpay for (Amazon's HQ2)," says Adam Ozimek, a senior economist with Moody's.
I am only getting $100 in my tax return, which means I didn't overpay my taxes all year.
I usually overpay, so I should get a refund of a couple grand when tax time rolls around.
I know auctions are fun, but you generally overpay, or you pay more than you wanted to pay.
I also let myself overpay for one tiny red velvet Mochi ice cream cake, and it is so good.
Competition is fierce to buy the best microbrands so big firms may overpay for their acquisition, says Mr Hottovy.
In a perfect world: Alexandre Burrows is the type of veteran rental that some team might overpay to get.
"Knowing that they will be up against six or seven other people, they are going to overpay," she said.
One ruse is getting firms to overpay for rent on a head-office building ultimately owned by family members.
I always bring sunscreen along with me on our family trips so I don't have to overpay later on.
Travel expert and "Parts Unknown " host Anthony Bourdain scowls at those who overpay for food or drinks while traveling.
Better to overpay and get money back later than to underpay and have to pay extra cash in penalties.
If you have the opportunity to have the best of the artist, then if you overpay, it doesn't matter.
Fees are an unavoidable evil of investing, but that doesn't mean investors have to overpay when it comes to them.
The consistent result is that participants overpay considerably for the dollar they thought they were initially getting for a bargain.
But some investors, loath to overpay for crowded trades, are turning to cheaper companies that have been overlooked and undervalued.
Pfizer's sprawl and tendency to overpay for acquisitions could mean the idea is back on the table before too long.
Higher-end buyers have more to choose from and less reason to get involved in a bidding war and overpay.
In particular, senior advisers to the NPP have criticised the ENI deal, arguing that Ghana will overpay for its gas.
We are gonna sell it to the phone company or the tech guys or whoever wants to overpay us for it.
It is hard enough to find a firm with a moat; it is much harder not to overpay for its stock.
The nice man working there assures me I didn't overpay and shows me the prices of a few other comparable dresses.
Publicly, the company has said it will not overpay for Uber, which has previously been valued at up to $70 billion.
As a restricted free agent, there aren't many clubs with space and a dying need to overpay for Smart's skill-set.
They have lots of choices and don't want or need to overpay; they can just move on to the next candidate.
Acquisitions include a $1 billion deal for the flossing technology Waterpik in 2017  — and Spruce Point called that a "significant" overpay.
So, to eliminate that incentive to overpay executives, we capped the amount at $1 million unless the pay was performance-based.
" The company's projects, he said, presented a "way of minting new billionaires in Russia: overpay for services and make them rich.
At the heart of the issue is whether the tech giant's App Store practices have forced consumers to overpay for iOS apps.
Other research found that over 73% of millennials reported working more than 40-hour workweeks, with a stronger desire for flexibility overpay.
I split the bill evenly with my friends (most of whom had alcohol), so I overpay a little after tip is included.
Other companies like Intel may divest, some will overpay, acquire, integrate, and disintegrate while AWS will laugh its way to the bank.
If you're going to splurge on plane tickets and actually use those vacation days, there's no need to overpay for plane tickets.
Anyone who wanted to court favor with the President could snap up multiple properties or purposefully overpay, without revealing their identity publicly.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Thursday that Americans overpay for medicines, subsidizing socialist European systems.
But management too often falls for the hype around their own stock and overpay, Buffett wrote in the bubble year of 1999.
They overpay them for their work, and then ask the victim to wire back the overage before the initial payment goes through.
He accused the inaugural committee of coordinating with the Trump family to "grossly overpay" for event space at the Trump International Hotel.
When the company buys buildings, it doesn&apost want to overpay for them and it avoids what it sees as overpriced markets.
San Francisco issues approximately 1.5 million parking tickets every year, and it's extremely rare that people would overpay or pay their ticket twice.
The best reason for investing across borders is not to plug into faster GDP growth (for which you may overpay), but for diversification.
For now, you can weigh in with the rest of our audience on the price of the deal: Did Microsoft overpay for LinkedIn?
In a perfect world: Murray finds some team that's willing to overpay for a defenseman, and takes advantage to add an impact forward.
They probably know that they'll be in a bidding war for a good home, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're ready to overpay.
In January 2013, prosecutors accused Litvak of causing customers to overpay for bonds they bought and accept lower prices for bonds they sold.
The Titans have an uninspiring coaching staff, and after the last two years they're going to need to overpay to bring in talent.
Either buy something that's basically disposable or overpay for something that may not even fit through the front door of your next home.
Again, like another caller that we had about Quad/Graphics, I am not in this business to be able to overpay for yield.
Critics deride the policy as a contrived excuse to overpay for over-the-hill stars who saunter through their final years before retirement.
Oh, and Ballmer bought the LA Clippers basketball team in between for $2 billion, which critics howled was a dramatic overpay by Ballmer.
Most of us have been guilty of dashing into a CVS in the middle of a downpour only to overpay for a mediocre umbrella.
Prepay (or overpay) your utilitiesMany utility companies let you pay just about any amount, even if you&aposre paying more than your current bill.
Yet to critics, the Chinese approach is akin to what corporate Japan did in the 1980s: overpay for trophy assets in a hopelessly undisciplined way.
HP is accusing Lynch and former Autonomy Chief Financial Officer Sushovan Hussain of involvement in accounting irregularities that caused it to overpay for the company.
In a PBM's perfect world, there would be no independent pharmacy and no local pharmacist advocating to make sure patients do not overpay for drugs.
Point being, if eating badly with finesse means I can still eschew murky green juices and overpay for my favorite latte, then sign me up.
If billionaires want to overpay for sports teams in order to have new toys, that doesn't really harm sports fans, or taxpayers, in any way.
But finding a 2.8-carat emerald-cut diamond that would fit the new setting was not easy, and he certainly did not want to overpay.
"They band together, and the ones that get pregnant quickly overpay significantly to insure the ones who don't," the people who wind up getting refunds.
Again, some of this might sound attractive: too many civil servants live in a Whitehall bubble and too many managers overpay themselves for spouting claptrap.
I know on the money side it seems like they used to maybe even overpay to get people, and now that's pulling back a bit.
Strictly speaking, this is not in line with equal-time, equal-cost rules: the dueling campaigns could opt to overpay by bidding aggressively for one user.
"Consumers can struggle to assess the cost of advice and may overpay for services which they do not need," the FCA said in its consultation paper.
Every city that fancies itself a seat of power has its own brand of fashion that says, look at me, I overpay for everything except taxes.
"In retrospect, IBM may have actually gotten a bargain with Red Hat, even as the deal looked like a wild overpay at the time," he said.
That wouldn't be anyone's fault, necessarily—it can't be advocated that the brass make a significant overpay or take an uncalculated risk just to do something.
Most importantly we must ensure that our government does not overpay for common, low cost drugs simply to line the pockets of pharmaceutical executives and shareholders.
If Mr. Trump and Secretary Clinton are going to continue parading such economic ignorance as knowledge, I encourage them to voluntarily overpay at the grocery store.
A 2018 study from Stanford University found that consumers often overpay for extended warranties because they overestimate the likelihood that a product will need a repair.
And, a few years before, I'd paid someone to do my tax return and she had botched it, causing me to overpay and get money back.
Haslehurst said that Moneycorp was keen to strike one more deal in 2017, with a preference to buy in the Americas, but did not intend to overpay.
Morgan Stanley gave some wealth management clients incorrect information on taxes that caused some to underpay and others to overpay, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
This certainly seems on its face to be a massive overpay, but Constellation's Wang says ultimately this often comes down to a classic build versus buy decision.
Surely there is an element of over-enthusiasm among investors for the new thing, leading them to overpay, and as in 1999 and 2000, fuel a bubble.
Sticklers will rightly point out that if you overpay for a stream of earnings, however good the company is, you cannot hope to make money from investing.
TCI has waged a public campaign to persuade Safran to cancel its proposed $9 billion offer for Zodiac, which it says would significantly overpay for the company.
"It's possible that there will be a so-called dumb buyer who will overpay massively and will cause the board to have to pay attention," he said.
Prosecutors said Litvak was motivated by greed, and that his "lies" caused customers to overpay for bonds they bought and accept lower prices for bonds they sold.
Dominion's main focus remains on developing its core internal diamond projects in Canada's Northwest Territories and it was "not desperate to rush in and overpay", Bell said.
The Pistons are too good to land a high draft pick and don't have enough cap space to overpay a specialist, let alone afford a max contract.
Shields quickly added that he thinks that Buffett is probably not going to overpay for anything -- no matter how badly he may want to do a deal.
In a bizarre realization that people actually overpay their parking tickets, San Francisco's transportation agency figured out it has more than $333 million in excess parking violation payments.
If you forget to figure reinvested dividends into the cost basis, which is subtracted from proceeds of sale to come up with your gain, you'll overpay in tax.
This initiative stems from the issue of rising set-top box prices, which the Consumer Federation of America believes is causing consumers to overpay $6-$14 billion annually.
Neighborhoods with high tipping points are highly desirable among buyers, who often overpay in terms of property sale price, said Asif Ghafoor, chief executive of Spacious Hong Kong.
Going forward, it might make the best sense to re-evaluate your withholding to save the money you'd otherwise overpay in taxes and then evaluate your spending patterns.
Someone could receive reduction in their tax liability but also see a smaller refund if they didn't overpay their taxes as much throughout the course of the year.
In other words, this can be the sexiest offseason Indiana has ever enjoyed, an opportunity to grab talent at a decent price they'd otherwise need to overpay for.
During the trial, prosecutors said Litvak's "lies" to customers were motivated by greed, and caused them to overpay for bonds they bought and accept less for bonds they sold.
Few people would voluntarily overpay the IRS by hundreds of thousands of dollars, but one retired accountant did exactly that in a bid to hide money from his wife.
And it is difficult to say exactly how much Japanese companies overpay for their targets, since valuations can be subjective and information on smaller deals is not always disclosed.
To him, it was a sign that the banks fear that it will give customers too much insight into how much they pay (or perhaps overpay) for financial products.
"From a credit perspective, we'd much rather see Apple overpay to deliver original content than pay $50 billion to buy Netflix and basically compete for the same content," he said.
Prosecutors accused Litvak of lying to customers including AllianceBernstein, Invesco and Soros Fund Management, causing them to overpay for bonds they bought and accept lower prices for bonds they sold.
Although this did not lead advertisers to overpay, they are likely to make new demands of Facebook, for instance to provide more data about exactly how its ads are viewed.
For the right to overpay for the privilege of calling the city your own, there is relief and a sense of pride that you have outlasted and outbid the unworthy.
"My take is so long as Netflix can be reasonable on what they're paying for content and not overpay, they're going to leave everyone else in the dust," he said.
You can even overpay your taxes with your credit card to get the bonus knowing you will get a tax refund next year when you file your income tax return.
DNO's Chairman Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani said in a statement that while the company "does not overpay for assets", it was in the interest of most parties to raise its offer.
And they get superior economics, and that's what creates this flywheel of when they go on and say they're going to overpay a little bit more, they don't really care.
It caps nearly two years of takeover drama, and the company's trans-European reach gives Comcast a way to expand outside the U.S. But did Comcast overpay for the privilege?
Berger, an industry contrarian who has criticized subsidies for renewable power, said many solar companies have tended to overpay when acquiring customers, while having high overhead costs and too much debt.
This could include telling you when it may be advantageous to overpay and giving you an easy to understand dashboard that clearly shows where you are at in the repayment process.
Supreme Court justices will take up Apple's effort to bury a lawsuit seeking damages from the company for allegedly monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and forcing consumers to overpay.
Litvak faces securities fraud charges for having allegedly misled his customers from 2009 to 2011, causing them to overpay for bonds they bought and be paid less for bonds they sold.
Merchants say they overpay, while card networks, which act as electronic highways between stores and banks, argue that the fees help cover fraud losses, security and other costs of doing business.
I don't know what Fletcher has up his sleeve this year but I bet it's used to overpay for someone who doesn't help the Wild win more than five playoff games.
Washington and Seoul, which have no intentions to overpay for whatever Kim brings to the table, have been saying strengthened international sanctions forced Kim into talks after a flurry of weapons tests.
The Journal's report follows a lawsuit in February that accused Honest of fraudulently labeling dozens of home and personal care products as natural, plant-based or chemical-free, causing consumers to overpay.
London has the lowest switching rate and Londoners typically overpay more than anyone else in the country, and that's partly because of the number of young people and renters that there are.
In fact, 42% of adults polled by NerdWallet said that they would prefer to overpay on federal income taxes, even if it means they're taking home less money for the entire year.
I could've waited for a lower price, but controlling only part of a property that I couldn't rebuild would have cost much more than it did to overpay on the last unit.
The federal government said this week that Mylan had been told multiple times that it was wrongly classifying the EpiPen, which led the Medicaid and Medicare programs to overpay for the product.
You don&apost have to overpay for a hotel room — there are tricks and tips you can use to find the best room rates so you can enjoy your trip guilt-free.
A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday dismissed nationwide litigation by aluminum purchasers who accused banks and commodity companies of conspiring to drive up the metal's prices by reducing supply, forcing them to overpay.
Some investors, particularly in private equity circles, complain that the Canadian funds - dubbed "maple revolutionaries" because of the strategy of direct equity investments they pioneered in the 133s - have a tendency to overpay.
Unlike you, most of us don't have Russian oligarchs or foreign governments to overpay for our products such as the hotel rooms, houses and condos you were able to sell at inflated prices.
Fox sees the agreement as a harkening back to 1993, when the network made a stunning bid to win the rights to broadcast N.F.L. games, in what some critics thought was an overpay.
Many problems — the monopolization of provider networks, a regulatory framework that forces Americans to overpay for generic drugs — require both a positive Republican vision and a more robust majority to carry it out.
Making sure that taxpayers don't overpay businesses for their services is a legitimate concern, but this bill would also ensure that taxpayer funds are also used to reward companies that treat workers well.
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday will take up Apple's effort to bury a lawsuit seeking damages from the company for allegedly monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and forcing consumers to overpay.
Working-age Chinese overpay for houses, many of which stand empty, on the assumption that they will sell them at higher prices—not to a greater fool necessarily, but to a younger, richer one.
Buberl said on Tuesday that the company did not want to overpay for acquisitions, and would be ready to use the money for share buybacks, if it did not find the right takeover target.
During the housing boom at the middle of the last decade, people used "If I don't buy now, I won't be able to afford to buy tomorrow" as a rationale to overpay for homes.
"If Disney doesn't bid again on Sky, perhaps Comcast lets them take Fox for $38 a share, and Comcast walks away with Sky, and you don't force each side to overpay massively," said Chaplin.
IBM spent $190 a share, but as Ray Wang, founder and chief analyst at Constellation Research said, Red Hat didn't necessarily want to be sold, so IBM had to overpay to get their company.
Lawyers for PG&E have argued in court filings that the bondholder plan is an effort by hedge funds and victims' lawyers "to do a deal to overpay each other" with the utility's assets.
"There's a perception that the grass is always greener, if you will, when you bring in a new person, so you're willing to overpay them for all the stuff that they've done," he says.
Murray Goulburn was left reeling in 2016 after aggressive plans to sell high-margin products such as infant formula in China led it to overpay for source milk, while sales fell far below expectations.
This dynamic runs rampant in my mailbox: People are so afraid of seeming cheap (or drawing attention to money in commercial transactions) that they overpay and resent it, rather than point out simple errors.
Prysmian boss Valerio Battista said in July that the possible sale of General Cable could accelerate sector consolidation and the Italian firm was hoping to be part of the game while trying not to overpay.
They said this caused customers to overpay for bonds they bought and be paid less for bonds they sold, leading to roughly $2.25 million of improper profit for Jefferies, a unit of Leucadia National Corp.
He's reasonably well-positioned to do it; Thomas Vanek has had a good season and should draw interest, and this is the time of year when someone always wants to overpay for a Steve Ott.
The ideal customer for T-Mobile, from Telekom's viewpoint, would be an existing player in the industry for whom it would make sense to overpay for T-Mobile because of the benefits of reduced competition.
"I'm not necessarily against the idea of them buying some assets at a good price, but I was adamantly against diluting the shareholders, especially in order to overpay for Bonanza," Icahn said in an interview.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of nationwide antitrust litigation accusing banks and commodity companies of conspiring to drive up aluminum prices by reducing supply, forcing them to overpay.
A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing a group of generic drug manufacturers of engaging in unfair and deceptive pricing practices that caused thousands of consumers and healthcare plans to overpay for pharmaceutical products.
The former executives inflated the apparel licensing company's revenues by convincing a Hong Kong-based company to overpay for stakes in joint ventures with Iconix, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan.
In an interview at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos this week Brandicourt defended his track record, citing an unwillingness to overpay for pricey assets and a paucity of good opportunities.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court also gave a go-ahead to an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of forcing consumers to overpay for iPhone software applications, again related to its 30% commission on purchases.
Limited quantities of the NES Classic led to massive aftermarket inflation, and Nintendo has urged consumers not to overpay for the SNES Classic, even if it is very hard to get your hands on one immediately.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed nationwide litigation by aluminum purchasers who accused banks and commodity companies of conspiring to drive up prices for the metal by reducing supply, forcing them to overpay.
It's simply not fair to expect ex-players who also signed up with individual counsel to overpay those lawyers for work that basically amounted to "shepherding of their clients through the claims process," the judge wrote.
And you can afford to overpay a bit for a really fine business depending on your degree of certainty that it's a really fine business and is going to stay one for a long, long time.
In that case, known as Google AdWords Litigation, businesses accused Google of placing their ads in obscure places such as error pages and undeveloped websites known as parked domains, causing them to overpay for the placements.
The case involved antitrust claims by union pension funds that alleged Warner Chilcott and other defendants forced ulcerative colitis patients to overpay for medication by steering them into a slightly altered version of an existing drug.
Murray Goulburn was forced to report record losses after expansion plans, which saw it overpay for milk supplies in order to produce more high margin products such as infant formula, were scuppered by poor Chinese sales.
Now that clubs can no longer be expected to overpay veterans, more money will need to be routed to young stars in order for the players as a group to regain their historical share of MLB's revenues.
Theater owners hate the prospect of major movies going directly to consumers, since it means that people would no longer have to pay them to see a new film (and then overpay them for popcorn and drinks).
The proposed class action lawsuit was filed on Friday in Miami federal court by Henry Vazquez, an optometrist who said Anheuser's deceptive packaging caused him to overpay for Leffe beer, among them Leffe Blonde and Leffe Brune.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Honest Co, the shopping website cofounded by actress Jessica Alba, has been accused of fraudulently labeling dozens of home and personal care products as natural, plant-based or chemical-free, causing consumers to overpay.
IT'S NOT SO MUCH THAT YOU KNOW, THEY WENT OUT AND OVERPAID FOR THIS OR WANT TO OVERPAY, AND IT'S NOT EVEN THAT THIS GUY, BENNETT, WHO RUNS THE COMPANY -- NOW GET THIS, BENNETT STARTED THE COMPANY.
Outside of his general on-court reliability that, frankly, at times feels a bit dated, the infectious professionalism Johnson constantly puts on display makes the one-year $11 million contract he's currently on anything but an overpay.
Chinese conglomerates like Wanda, Anbang Insurance Group, HNA Group and Fosun International are being reined in because they have used cheap debt provided by state banks to spend lavishly, in some cases seeming to overpay for acquisitions.
First Bankers Trust Services has agreed to pay $15.75 million to resolve three lawsuits by the U.S. Department of Labor alleging that it allowed employee stock ownership plans it was overseeing to overpay for the employees' company stock.
Hussain and former Autonomy Chief Executive Mike Lynch are also defendants in a $5 billion civil fraud trial in London's High Court, where Hewlett-Packard claimed they caused it to overpay for Autonomy by fraudulently inflating its value.
The big picture: EpiPen was misclassified as a generic drug within Medicaid, which resulted in Mylan paying less in rebates and causing taxpayers to overpay as much as $1.27 billion over 10 years, according to one government estimate.
The lawsuit also accused Shervin Pishevar of using company money to overpay a public relations consultant he was dating at the time and BamBrogan personally accused Afshin Pishevar of threatening him by placing a noose at his desk.
They speak of "vanity metrics" (misleading measures of a startup's progress); of the importance of "product-market fit" (how well a piece of software meets the customer's needs); and "deal heat", the fever that causes investors to overpay.
Apple shares were also hit by news that the U.S. Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for a lawsuit by consumers accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the market for its software applications and forcing them to overpay.
The plaintiffs accused ramen makers of coordinating six price increases from 2001 to 2008, in a scheme hatched at a meeting at the Renaissance Seoul Hotel, causing them to overpay for their noodles from early 2003 through January 2010.
Among them: Because PE firms have record amounts of money at their disposal, they've been able to borrow nearly unheard-of sums from banks, giving them reason to look high and low for candidates and, in some cases, overpay.
WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday will take up Apple Inc's effort to bury a lawsuit seeking damages from the company for allegedly monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and forcing consumers to overpay.
"I'm not necessarily against the idea of them buying some assets at a good price, but I was adamantly against diluting the shareholders, especially in order to overpay for Bonanza," Icahn said in an interview ahead of the meeting.
Brogdon&aposs deal looked like an overpay at the time (the Milwaukee Bucks chose not to match the offer), but it can be argued that Brogdon is the type of player the Knicks should have been in on anyway.
As a private company, "You can say, we're not going overpay for acquisitions … we're going to throw off a lot of cash because we are happy to be slow growth," said Erik Gordon, business professor at the University of Michigan.
Details: EpiPen was misclassified as a generic drug within the Medicaid drug rebate program, which resulted in Mylan paying less in rebates and causing taxpayers to overpay as much as $1.27 billion over 10 years, according to one government estimate.
Storage has operated on a different track to the rest of a phone's specs: it's pretty much the only thing you're allowed to customize (and overpay for, if you're buying an iPhone), and it's tended to increase much more slowly.
But despite its monopoly on the product, Mylan has been telling an American agency for years that EpiPen is a generic, federal officials say, most likely leading state Medicaid programs to overpay for the product by tens of millions of dollars.
Litvak is on trial for a second time for having allegedly defrauded his customers about bond prices, causing them to overpay for bonds they bought and accept less for bonds they sold, to make more money for his employer and himself.
Because of the way the NHL's collective-bargaining agreement is structured, teams underpay their super-talented young players until they are 25 years old and overpay the average players when they hit the open market in their late 21s and 2650s.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ordered Barclays Plc to face a proposed class-action lawsuit in which a California water utility accused the British bank of illegally manipulating electricity prices in the western United States, causing purchasers to overpay.
But Ballmer made a lot of money for shareholders, he never had to overpay for patents because he acquired them all along, and he pointed the company in the directions which have allowed it to become a $700 billion business today.
Still, growing appetite does not mean State Grid Corp of China, the world's largest utility, or other Chinese peers will overpay for Brazilian assets, said Humberto Gargiulo, president of Upside Finance, which advised State Grid in prior bids for Brazilian transmission lines.
So yeah, AdGrok was nothing in the scheme of things, but I think it was very emblematic of just what you said — your typical acqhire in which companies arguably overpay for a set of engineers and the company isn't really a company.
A Corbyn government would hike taxes for the top 4 percent of taxpayers, corporation tax from 19 percent to 26 percent, apply a tax to financial derivative transactions, and slap an extra levy on companies that are perceived to overpay their staff.
Almost 28500 percent of those polled said they'd prefer to overpay their taxes during the year and get a refund, basically giving the government an interest-free loan, than pay less throughout the year and owe the IRS money, the survey found.
The objective is to minimize the Chinese use of opaque deals for the purposes of elite capture, force Chinese state-owned firms to overpay in order to win the contract or push Chinese firms to invest in non-profitable and higher-risk economies.
While much of the nation is talking about health care as Capitol Hill engages in a showdown on the Affordable Care Act, severely injured veterans have been struggling with an issue that has forced thousands to overpay for their health care for years.
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ZURICH, July 25 (Reuters) - Clariant's and Saudi Basic Industries' joint venture failed over clashing price expectations, Clariant finance head Patrick Jany said, as the Swiss group decided it would have to overpay and the Saudis concluding they would get too little to close the deal.
The fill-in front office was there for the slam dunk deals, such as trading the free-agents-to-be, infielder Asdrubal Cabrera and closer Jeurys Familia, or to accept should a desperate rival attempt to overpay for one of the team's talented pitchers.
One season after engineering a tank so masterful that the American government wants to overpay for it in the next round of defense spending, the Toronto Maple Leafs put forth a magical season that fans will likely remember as the start of something special.
Realistic targets are now closer to the Harrison Barnes, Batum, or Rodney Hood mold (a lottery pick for any of those three is still a dramatic overpay, even though they'd help the Cavs match up better against the Golden State Warriors or Houston Rockets in the Finals).
Instead, the Cubs were smart, choosing not to overpay for players like closer Aroldis Chapman — who became the highest paid relief pitcher in history when he signed with the Yankees this week — and Dexter Fowler, who took a five-year, $82 million deal with the Cardinals.
"Business owners don't want to overpay their taxes during the year, but if they assume they qualify for the deduction and then later find out they didn't, they may find themselves underpaid and subject to a penalty," said Tim Steffen, director of advanced planning at Baird.
The charges were revealed ahead of Monday's scheduled start of a $5 billion civil fraud trial in London's High Court, where HP is accusing Lynch and former Autonomy Chief Financial Officer Sushovan Hussain of involvement in accounting irregularities that caused it to overpay for the company.
Thursday's decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a victory for hospitals in urban areas including the acute care Lawrence + Memorial Hospital of New London, Connecticut, which said the Department of Health and Human Services' "reclassification rule" forced it to overpay for drugs that patients needed.
CreditCreditSabine Mirlesse While the French have largely relinquished the Côte d'Azur to foreigners — letting them fight for tables, sit in traffic and overpay for beach towels — they've kept one of their country's best escapes for themselves: Cap Ferret, a windswept, pine-covered peninsula off the coast of southwest France.
"Assuming that a powerful brand, a sustainable competitive advantage, and a good reputation are characteristics that investors like or admire, from the popularity perspective, some investors (the willing or unknowing losers) are simply willing to give up some level of return or overpay for a characteristic they like," they added.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave the go-ahead to an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple Inc of forcing consumers to overpay for iPhone software applications, a decision that could lead to billions of dollars in damages and put at risk the company's lucrative way of selling apps.
While it might seem like a waste to pay rent when you could be building equity, the amount you overpay due to a hasty purchase — or the cost of having to move again after buying a house that doesn't meet your needs — could dwarf the cost of a few months' rent.
Opinion Columnist As deal-making goes, Donald Trump's approach to negotiating with North Korea has resembled nothing so much as his purchase, in 1988, of New York's Plaza Hotel: Rely on personal chemistry, ignore the advice of experts, neglect due diligence and then overpay for an investment that delivers no returns.
Nearly four in five people say they would rather overpay their federal income taxes and get a refund every spring — effectively making an interest-free loan to the government — than underpay and owe money come tax season, according to a poll for The New York Times by the online research firm SurveyMonkey.
But, aside from the excessive amount of time that would take with so many real estate holdings involved, that process is ripe for corruption as any private buyer or foreign government could simply overpay for an asset, agree to buy an otherwise unwanted asset, or trade some other kind of personal favor during such a process.
It is a $2100 billion-a-year industry in New York, according to the Building Congress, a trade group, and like much of the construction world, it is vulnerable to abuse, as companies can unknowingly overpay for services when the general contractor or construction managers collude with subcontractors to rig bids, inflate bills and pocket the proceeds.
Reuters has not verified the newspaper reports, and cannot vouch for their accuracy: Masmovil reported on Wednesday first half net sales of 609.2 million euros versus 71.3 million euros a year ago Macquarie cuts to "underperform" Italgas Spa Chief Executive Paolo Gallo said on Wednesday the company will present a binding offer for Italian distribution assets of Gas Natural, though will not overpay.
There's also a decent chance some other team will be in search of a starting point guard over the next few weeks: the Timberwolves, Utah Jazz, San Antonio Spurs, New Orleans Pelicans, New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors, and one or two others may be willing to overpay for an intriguing ball-handler who positively impacts both ends of the floor.
Now imagine that there are two ways to turn your chips back into cash: either you can go to the guy at the window, who will carefully tally and value them (like a startup readied for an I.P.O.), or you can rake all your chips into your hat and sell the whole lot to another player, who may overpay a bit to sweeten the deal and get that lucky je ne sais quoi (like a startup's being acquired).
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