Carl Sparks - AVIS BUDGET Independent Director

CUCA Stock  EUR 109.25  0.90  0.83%   

Director

Mr. Carl Sparks is Independent Director of Avis Budget Group Inc. Mr. Sparks was the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Academic Partnerships, an online service provider for higher education, from 2016 to 2017. From 2011 to 2014, Mr. Sparks was the Chief Executive Officer of Travelocity Global. Mr. Sparks was also employed by Gilt Groupe, serving as its Chief Marketing Officer in 2009 and its President from 2010 to 2011. Prior to joining Gilt Groupe, Mr. Sparks served in a variety of leadership roles at Expedia Inc. from 2004 to 2009, including as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Retail Operations at Hotels. com from 2004 to 2006, Chief Marketing Officer at Expedia.com from 2006 to 2007, and General Manager at Hotels.com USA, Latin America Canada from 2008 to 2009. Earlier, Mr. Sparks served as Vice President of Direct Business and Brand at Capital One Financial Corporationration, and also served in senior marketing and strategy roles at Guinness Co., PepsiCo Inc., and The Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Sparks is a director of Dunkin Brands Group, Inc., which files reports pursuant to the Exchange Act. Mr. Sparks previously served on the board of Vonage Holdings Corporationration, which files reports pursuant to the Exchange Act. Mr. Sparks is also currently serving as a director of ActionIQ, Inc., an enterprise software company TreeHouse, Inc., a home upgrade company Blue Nile, an online jewelry retailer and Lucid, LLC, a market research company since 2018.
Age 51
Tenure 6 years
Sparks was initially appointed to the Board pursuant to the terms of a cooperation agreement between the Company and SRS Investment Management, LLC and certain of its affiliates.
AVIS BUDGET GROUP (CUCA) is traded on Munich Exchange in Germany and employs 36 people.

AVIS BUDGET GROUP Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the AVIS BUDGET's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: AVIS BUDGET inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of AVIS. The board's role is to monitor AVIS BUDGET's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. AVIS BUDGET's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, AVIS BUDGET's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
Brian Choi, Chief Financial Officer
Jean Sera, Senior Vice President General Counsel, Secretary
Karthik Sarma, Independent Director
Martyn Smith, CFO
Bernardo Hees, Independent Chairman of the Board
Izilda Martins, Executive Vice President, Americas
Eduardo Mestre, Independent Director
Stender Sweeney, Independent Director
Francis Shammo, Independent Director
Gerard Insall, Senior Vice President CIO
Robert Salerno, Independent Director
Alun Cathcart, Independent Director
Jeffrey Fox, Independent Director
Cathleen DeGenova, Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President
Carl Sparks, Independent Director
Mark Servodidio, Executive Vice President Chief Administrative Officer
John Hardy, Independent Director
John North, Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Jagdeep Pahwa, Vice Chairman of the Board
Ronald Nelson, Chairman of the Board and Presidentident, CEO, COO
Larry Shon, President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Director
David Wyshner, CFO, Senior Executive Vice President
David Calabria, Chief Accounting Officer
Leonard Coleman, Independent Chairman of the Board
Neal Goldner, IR Contact Officer
Sanoke Viswanathan, Independent Director
Arthur Orduna, Chief Innovation Officer
Lynn Krominga, Independent Director
Keith Rankin, President - International
Michael Tucker, Executive Vice President Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel
Edward Linnen, Chief Human Resource Officer, Executive Vice President
Mary Choksi, Independent Director
F Salerno, Independent Director
Glenn Lurie, Independent Director
Scott Deaver, Executive Vice President Chief Strategy and Development Officer
Joseph Ferraro, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer

AVIS Stock Performance Indicators

The ability to make a profit is the ultimate goal of any investor. But to identify the right stock is not an easy task. Is AVIS BUDGET a good investment? Although profit is still the single most important financial element of any organization, multiple performance indicators can help investors identify the equity that they will appreciate over time.

Pair Trading with AVIS BUDGET

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if AVIS BUDGET position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in AVIS BUDGET will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to AVIS BUDGET could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace AVIS BUDGET when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back AVIS BUDGET - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling AVIS BUDGET GROUP to buy it.
The correlation of AVIS BUDGET is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as AVIS BUDGET moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if AVIS BUDGET GROUP moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for AVIS BUDGET can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
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When determining whether AVIS BUDGET GROUP is a strong investment it is important to analyze AVIS BUDGET's competitive position within its industry, examining market share, product or service uniqueness, and competitive advantages. Beyond financials and market position, potential investors should also consider broader economic conditions, industry trends, and any regulatory or geopolitical factors that may impact AVIS BUDGET's future performance. For an informed investment choice regarding AVIS Stock, refer to the following important reports:
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Please note, there is a significant difference between AVIS BUDGET's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if AVIS BUDGET is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, AVIS BUDGET's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.