On the margin

Spanish translation: por un lado / en cierto sentido

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English term or phrase:On the margin
Spanish translation:por un lado / en cierto sentido
Entered by: César Cornejo Fuster

16:23 May 27, 2020
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English term or phrase: On the margin
Me he encontrado esta expresión un par de veces en un interrogatorio para un juicio y no acabo de encontrar una forma de traducirla que me convenza. Es un juicio de ámbito financiero y la traducción es para España.

"A. Effectively the shareholders in XXX were given the right to invest their pro rata interest in the company at that time in an equity offering that XXX was making available. It wis at a fixed price. And to the extent the other shareholders did not subscribe to that right, YYY had the obligation to subscribe the entire rights offering. So there wis no scenario where we didn't get a hundred percent of the proceeds from the rights offering into the company.

Q. Would this also -- would this mechanism help protect XXX shareholders?

A. ***On the margin*** I felt good about it, yes, because I think you have in YYY, again, a credible arguably third party participant putting multiple billions of dollars into the company, which is making a pretty big bet. It was a vote of confidence."

Y la misma expresión en otro contexto:

"Q. Sure. Explain what the "no analyst coverage in common," why that is an unfavorable technical trading consideration.

A. When a transaction gets announred, oftentimes investors will look to research analyst commentary on that transaction. It is often helpful to have at least one analyst who is respected by Wall Street cover both companies because they'll have insights into both companies and arguably are in a better position to determine whether or not that combination makes sense and is compelling. So ***on the margin*** it would have been nice. We were making the observation it would have been nice to have analysts in common."
César Cornejo Fuster
Local time: 14:10
por un lado
Explanation:
me parece que sencillamente está diciendo, "por un lado, hubiera sido bueno, pero" o "por un lado, me hizo sentir bien, porque.."
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patinba
Argentina
Local time: 10:10
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Summary of answers provided
4al margen
Yaotl Altan
3 +1por un lado
patinba
3en principio
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
3con reservas/con las reservas del caso
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Summary of reference entries provided
Ref.
Taña Dalglish

Discussion entries: 1





  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
on the margin
al margen


Explanation:


Yaotl Altan
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
on the margin
por un lado


Explanation:
me parece que sencillamente está diciendo, "por un lado, hubiera sido bueno, pero" o "por un lado, me hizo sentir bien, porque.."

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 10:10
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Muchas gracias

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mónica Algazi: Sí, la idea de "en cierto sentido".
48 mins
  -> Si, bién también. Gracias y saludos, Mónica!
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
on the margin
en principio


Explanation:
Entiendo se trata de una afirmación con reservas.

En el primer caso: "En principio, me pareció bien"

En el segundo caso: "De modo que,/Así que, en principio, hubiera sido bueno/hubiera estado bien"

en principio
1. loc. adv. U. para referirse a lo que provisionalmente se acepta o acoge en esencia, sin que haya entera conformidad en la forma o los detalles.
https://dle.rae.es/principio?m=form2#9wOJE3l

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Spain
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
on the margin
con reservas/con las reservas del caso


Explanation:
https://www.linguee.mx/espanol-ingles/traduccion/con las res...

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 08:10
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Reference comments


1 hr
Reference: Ref.

Reference information:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marginal-analysis.asp
Limitations of Marginal Analysis
Marginal analysis derives from the economic theory of marginalism—the idea that human actors make decisions on the margin. Underlying marginalism is another concept: the subjective theory of value. Marginalism is sometimes criticized as one of the "fuzzier" areas of economics, as much of what is proposed is hard to accurately measure, such as an individual consumers' marginal utility.


In both your cases, my impression is that it was an initial reaction, but there was always a "but" (reservation); invariably, further evaluation would be needed to arrive at a course of action.

A. ***On the margin*** I felt good about it, yes, because I think you have in YYY, again, a credible arguably third party participant putting multiple billions of dollars into the company, which is making a pretty big bet. It was a vote of confidence."

A. When a transaction gets announced, often times investors will look to research analyst commentary on that transaction. It is often helpful to have at least one analyst who is respected by Wall Street cover both companies because they'll have insights into both companies and arguably are in a better position to determine whether or not that combination makes sense and is compelling. So ***on the margin*** it would have been nice. We were making the observation it would have been nice to have analysts in common."

HTH!

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Note added at 1 hr (2020-05-27 18:17:50 GMT)
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When the person was speaking in financial terms "on the margin", I think Pat's interpretation of "one the one hand" is a good possibility and non-committal (vague), much like the original phrase.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/margin
margin
in Finance
(mɑrdʒɪn)
Word forms: (regular plural) margins
NOUN
(Finance: Investment, Stocks)
If you buy stocks on the margin, you borrow money in order to buy them, in the hope that they will increase in value before you have to pay the loan back.
The government expanded the scope of permissible capital market activities, such as allowing finance companies to fund equity purchases on the margin.
People are borrowing on credit cards to gamble on the margin, so that they quickly climb into serious debt to try to recoup losses.
If you buy stocks on the margin, you borrow money in order to buy them, in the hope that they will increase in value before you have to pay the loan back.

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
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