BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Bottom-up

  • relating to an approach to investing that seeks to identify individual companies that are fundamentally sound and whose stock will perform well regardless of general economic or industry-group trends

Wiktionary Definition for: Bottom-up

  • of, or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from multiple, small subunits to a single, large basic unit

Additional Resources

Have We Experienced a Bear Market Bottom?
John Pantic submits: A number of market commentators have been commenting on reaching a bottom in the financial markets on July 15 2008. The Street’s Jim Cramer said “I am finding disbelief that the July 15 selloff marked the bottom. Fifty percent of the people are bears, 30 percent bulls....
Tags: US Market
External links 2008-08-17
Bottom mount fridge sports ice and water dispensers.(NEW PRODUCTS)
The Maytag Ice20 French Door Bottom-Freezer Refrigerator from Maytag Appliances combines the features of a side-by-side and bottom-freezer refrigerator, highlighted by an external ice and water dispenser with PuriClean II water and ice filter on a Fr The Maytag Ice20 French Door Bottom-Freezer Refrigerator from ...
Tags: ice, Maytag Corp.
Research articles 2006-04-01
MICROSOFT SETS BOTTOM PRICE FOR DRAMS
AsiaInfo Services 05-23-1996 Microsoft Sets Bottom Price for DRAMs US, May 23, AsiaInfo Services, Inc -- The US Microsoft Corp. and the semiconductor plants south in Korea and Japan came to an agreement recently to set bottom prices for...
Tags: agreement, Microsoft Corp., semiconductor
Research articles 1996-05-23
Cycle may not hit bottom until 1991, S&P says. (insurance earnings)
CYCLE MAY NOT HIT BOTTOM UNTIL 1991, S&P SAYS The current cyclical downturn in underwriting profits may not hit bottom until sometime in 1991, according to Standard & Poor's Rating Group. The pace of price reductions will slow throughout 1CYCLE MAY NOT...
Tags: insurance, S&P
Research articles 1989-12-18
Colorado-based Rock Bottom Restaurants names charity chair.
By Matt Branaugh, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 30--Rock Bottom Restaurants Inc. recently named a new head for its charitable foundation, a 4-year-old endeavor created to help those who have hit rock bottom -- literally. ...
Tags: Daily Camera
Research articles 2004-06-30
Outsourcing the Revenue Cycle - Driving More Profit to the Bottom Line
With ongoing pressure on executives to protect bottom line numbers, it is little wonder there is a focus on creative ways to further cut costs. Accordingly, there has been growing interest in the potential benefits of business process outsourcing BPO, particularly in the area of financial process outsourcing. For most...
Tags: Revenue, Outsourcing Institute, Outsourcing, Bottom Line, Revenue Cycle Management, Operational Accounting, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
ChannelAdvisor Announces Rock Bottom Golf Customer Win; ChannelAdvisor Technology Provides Rock Bottom Golf with Multi-Channel Strategy
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- ChannelAdvisor Corporation, the leading provider of channel management solutions, announced today that Rock Bottom Golf, the top discount golf retailer and one of eBay's (NASDAQ: EBAY) top sellers, has chosen ChannelAdvisor's software and solutions as its infrastructure to help scale its business on eBay. In...
Tags: eBay Inc., strategy
Research articles 2004-10-22
Robert Toll and the Search for a Housing Bottom
Dr. Duru submits: "People are looking for a reason to get off the fence. The most asked question in America today other than who Obama’s Vice President is going to be is probably when is the bottom? And if you even smell as though you are in real estate,...
Tags: US Market, Centex Corp., D. R. Horton Inc., KB HOME, Toll Brothers Inc.
External links 2008-08-19
Used Trucks May Have Hit Bottom
Used Trucks May Have Hit BottomRE: Used Trucks May Have Hit Bottomused cars may really hit rock bottom because of the latest cars and trucks that are more efficient , esp. hybrid trucks that could save us money and has the best fuel milage the best thing that should do...
Tags: Used-Truck
Discussion threads 2008-10-08
LOW BOTTOM LINE = DON'T LOWER THE BOTTOM.
LOW BOTTOM LINE = DON'T LOWER THE BOTTOM: It looks like the economist hired by the Environmental Protection Agency EPA to review the Corps' cost-benefit analysis for the proposed deepening of the Chesapeake and Delaware (C&D) Canal from 35 feet to 40 feet will not be...
Tags: economist, Transportation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2001-01-24
How Does The Market Determine A Bottom?
Stock Traders Daily, an NASD Registered Technical Investment Advisor, has identified fair value in the SP 500 and as a result the firm is identifying buy prices for select equity companies in advance of a Market bottom, or in case of a sudden Market reversal higher.Thomas H. Kee Jr., Chief...
Tags: FINANCE, Investment, NASD, reversal, stock
Research articles 1970-01-01
Finding Stocks To Buy At The Market Bottom
Stock Traders Daily, an SEC registered Technical Investment Advisor, is educating its clients about how to identify a Market bottom.Thomas Kee, Chief Investment Strategist with Stock Traders Daily, remains cautious about the Market near term, but preparations are being made to take advantage of a Market bottom when it happens....
Tags: FINANCE, Investment, NASD, stock
Research articles 1970-01-01
Let Project Management Boost The Bottom-Line
The next time you hear the words "Bottom-line" when you're sitting in the audience at a company meeting, don't roll your eyes. Instead, think about all the ways that you as a project manager can help to boost that bottom-line. The bottom-line is not just for accountants and executives. It's...
Tags: Financial, Project Manager, Project Smart, Bottom-line, Financial Accounting, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Finance, It Operations, It service Management, Management
White papers 2008-03-09
Too Early and Risky to Bottom Fish for Wells Fargo
Donald Johnson submits: Some stock pickers like to try to pick the tops and bottoms of markets, and bottom fishing seems to be all the rage these days, especially when it comes to the banks, insurers and other financials. Anybody who has tried bottom fishing bank stocks since last fall...
Tags: Financial, Donald Johnson, Wells Fargo & Co.
External links 2009-02-23
Can You Hear the Bell Signaling a Bottom?
Joseph L. Shaefer submits: It is a market cliché that “they don’t ring a bell to signal the top.” Or the bottom. But this panic selling of AAA securities like ROYAL DUTCH SHELL (RDS.B,) bringing that stock to less than 5 times earnings and a more...
Tags: US Market, Financial, Joseph L. Shaefer
External links 2009-03-03
Food Lion LLC.(Private PARTICULARS)(Bottom Dollar Food stores)(Brief article)
Food Lion LLC, Salisbury, N.C., is transforming 14 Food Lion stores in the Washington, D.C., area into Bottom Dollar Food stores. Bottom Dollar Food, a full-shop discount grocer, offers its members both national brands and private label products in addition to fresh produce and meat. Bottom...
Tags: Food Lion LLC
Research articles 2006-07-01
Rock Bottom founder Day takes reins as 3 execs quit
LOUISVILLE, COLO. -- Rock Bottom Restaurants Inc. has accepted the resignations of chief executive Ned Lidvall, chief financial officer John Coletta and senior vice president of human resources Sugi Randall. Chairman and founder Frank Day assumed responsibilities as president of the operator or franchisor of 102 casual-dining restaurants, including...
Tags: Randall
Research articles 2008-05-12
Rock Bottom Restaurants Moving Headquarters to Louisville, Colo.(Originated from Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.)
Oct. 22--Rock Bottom Restaurants Inc., the owner of Old Chicago and Rock Bottom Brewery restaurants, is on the verge of leaving its Boulder roots by moving its corporate headquarters to Louisville. The planned move is part of a trend among expanding Boulder...
Tags: Daily Camera
Research articles 1996-10-22
An Introduction to Bottom-Line Human Resource Management
"This article explains to managers and academics a new approach to human resource management, what I call "Bottom-Line Human Resource Management." Bottom-line human resource management starts by positing clear organizational goals, and in this way differs from strategic human resource management, which starts with analysis of the organization's human resource...
Tags: HRM, CAHRS, Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Human Resources
White papers 2002-01-01
Managing Spend for Significant Bottom-Line Results
An enterprise spend management solution enables businesses to automate key steps of the spend-management process in a single closed-loop system and provide enterprise-wide visibility and operational control. Though businesses cannot control the economic circumstances in which they operate, they can control the money they spend. One hundred percent of the...
Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 2003-01-01