While the auto sector appears to have corrected its inventory overhang, other sectors have not been nearly as successful, particularly high tech, ... As business sales slow, it will be even more difficult to bring inventories into line.
Quotes about overhang (16 Quotes)
The settlement was the big overhang. They are putting a lot of the concerns investors have about the company behind them.
We're looking at a pretty favorable environment for bank stocks, and financials in general, over the next three-to-six months. But what I would say is that there's still a little bit of an overhang in terms of the commercial banking sector, due to credit quality concerns. So that's going to weigh heavily on the banks. But we could see growth in some of the other areas. Brokerage continues to be very strong.
This is a logical, rational reaction to a complex structure, ... It's a good move because there's been an overhang on the stock because of the open cable issue and contract expirations.
Though we remain positive on the long-term business model and outlook, we expect concerns over pricing pressure, the back-end-loaded nature of full-year guidance and new product wins to overhang the shares medium term.
Overall, this was another awful report, ... but given the size of the inventory overhang in manufacturing and the still-rapid loss pace of job losses it comes as no surprise.
I think we need to get through all the earnings of the next two weeks before we can determine where the market is headed. I think the market is going to be hard-pressed to make new highs with the overhang of geopolitical issues and concerns about interest rates.
I don't think home values will crash -- they will rust, not bust. Demographics have underpinned demand, courtesy of a wave of immigration in the past 16 years that reduced supply, and you don't see the speculative overhang that could contribute to a bust in home values.
Tenet achieved another strong quarter of improved pricing and tight cost control strengthening the foundation of our business as we enter 2006. Despite this considerable progress on the pricing and cost fronts, our results for the fourth quarter and full year 2005 were adversely impacted by continuing declines in patient volumes and stubbornly high levels of bad debt expense. We believe our ability to successfully reverse this volume erosion is limited by the continuing overhang of government litigation and investigation issues. The resolution of these issues remains among our highest priorities.
We're down for three reasons. One, we still have the overhang of supply associated with the February refunding auctions, which were not distributed that well. Two, the early gains in the Dow Jones industrial average have eliminated some support for Treasury.
With Nigerian problems, uncertainty about the Iran nuclear program before the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) meeting next week, and the overhang of the Saudi attack and an OPEC meeting on the 8th, we are in for a lot of volatility in prices.
We still have a huge overhang of storage. This is the time of year when you get seasonal lows ahead of summer and hurricane season.
The tender offer tells me a lot of ups employees are incredibly loyal, that they believe in the company long-term. But I think there could be some selling of shares and until that overhang is taken up through higher demand, it will put pressure on the stock.
The bad debt overhang has this market trapped in a range. It flew on hopes for (Prime Minister Junichiro) Koizumi reforms, but has little chance of breaking out until he maps out a more concrete plan to clean up the mess.
There is some speculation that CLP might announce a generous payout. But the company continues to face an overhang because of the uncertain outcome of its talks with the government on the scheme of controls relating to the operations of power companies in Hong Kong.
The differentiation is where the recession is coming from. When you're in a consumer-housing situation, the rate cuts have a very dramatic effect and hit much sooner. But when you're in a manufacturing recession involving overcapacity and inventory overhang, it's not going to make people borrow.