That indicated that the price should be well over $1.5 billion and suggested that Forstmann should get a hefty return on its one-year investment.

If that price move took only a few days, that would have represented a hefty return on the original $100,000 investment.

The venture capitalists have made ($180,000) from a minnow investment of $50,000, a hefty 3.6 fold return.

They have turned to the financial equivalent of steroids - leverage - in search of heftier returns.

They question how a private equity firm, with its need for hefty returns, could own public housing without squeezing the people who live there.

In the end Catalyst agreed to buy out the minority shareholders for $49 million, giving them a hefty return on their $8 million investment.

Low rates, in turn, encourage investors to buy stock rather than shift money into bonds in search of heftier returns.

Knoll is also counting on a hefty return on its investment.

In a market of such high expectations and hefty returns, it is only natural that people would begin borrowing to buy into the frenzy.

But the season's ambitious films need hefty returns to produce profits.