Sentences with phrase «last year a quarter»

This is a considerable drop from 16.1 million last year quarter.

Last year a quarter of the rhinos in Zimbabwe were killed, and the last female white rhino in a South African reserve was killed earlier this year.

Not exact matches

Wall Street expects another huge jump in Amazon's revenue, but lower profits, compared with last year, when the company reports its first - quarter earnings on Thursday.

Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves estimated that the top 8 cable companies lost 463,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2015 compared to a decline of 141,000 for the second quarter last year.

Cyran, the Reuters columnist, pointed to quarterly mergers and acquisition (M&A) statistics from PricewaterhouseCoopers, showing that Canadian M&A volumes retreated 21 % compared to the same quarter last year.

Rising inventories are partly due to soaring U.S. production , which jumped by a quarter in the last two years to 10.6 million bpd.

However, that's due in part to a high comparative base from the second quarter last year, when the U.K.'s unexpected decision to leave the EU caused a huge surge in trading in the last week of June.

Pay television lost a record number of subscribers in last year's fourth quarter as more and more companies have opted to cut the cord.

McDonald's launched its digital app at the end of the third quarter last year and had millions of downloads within three months.

The transport bottlenecks have increased the discount buyers take for Canadian oil over U.S. light crude and Cenovus said its differentials averaged $ 24.28 per barrel in the first quarter, a 67 percent jump when compared with last year.

Despite returning to profit growth last year, investors sold off the company's stock after Exxon reported fourth - quarter results that fell short of Wall Street's expectations.

Leightman Research Group data released Monday was roughly in line: Leightman estimated that the 13 top cable providers lost about 470,000 video customers in the second quarter, compared to a loss of 350,000 for the corresponding quarter last year.

The company sold 52.2 million phonesin the March quarter — higher than the 51 million sold during the same quarter last year, but analysts were expecting 53 million.

But it still recorded only 1.59 million new users, compared with estimates of 1.62 million — and sharply lower than the 1.9 million it signed up in the same quarter last year.

Campbell has been looking to offset such soup declines that have going on for years (and fell 7 % in the last quarter) with new product innovations, including plant - protein milk and a bigger push of its Garden Fresh Gourmet products.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

The company opened 341 net new stores, a significant jump from the 231 stores it opened in the same quarter last year.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

That was down two - thirds when compared to the same quarter last year.

In the above table, I have selected a few prior years with interim high and low readings, as well as the last 4 years, and further broken out 2015 by quarter.

U.S. health insurer Aetna, which has agreed to be bought by CVS Health, reported a better - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday as an adjustment for low healthcare spending late last year offset a rise in flu - related costs.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the end of the first quarter of 2015, real hourly compensation was up 1.8 % over the previous year and jumped at an annualized rate of 5.5 % compared to the last quarter of 2014.

Papa John's stock tanked after the company and the NFL mutually decided to end the pizza firm's sponsorship of the professional football league, and after Papa John's missed analyst expectations for the fourth quarter of last year.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt, crediting Trump with creating almost 50,000 jobs «in the coal sector» since the fourth quarter of last year.

«We typically don't go into this level of detail but I think it's important this quarter to give you additional color, and maybe the two most important messages are that we believe iPhone revenue will grow double - digits as compared to last year during the March quarter and also and, importantly, that iPhone sell - through growth on a year - over-year basis will be actually accelerating during the March quarter as compared to the December,» chief financial officer Luca Maestri said.

BP benefited from UK fiscal regime changes, resulting an a $ 164 million tax credit in the third quarter, compared with a $ 1.16 billion tax bill in the same quarter last year.

Boire is the fourth guy in four years to lead Sears, which saw sales decline 9.7 % in the first quarter compared to the same period last year.

WellCare's net income rose more than $ 100 million in the third quarter of 2017 compared to the same time period last year thanks to stellar growth in its Medicare business and much lower - than - expected medical costs for its Medicaid plan holders relative to their premiums.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

In the most recent third quarter, it posted a $ 129 million loss (last year's third quarter loss was $ 145 million), following a $ 76 million loss in the quarter before that.

The space industry started the first quarter of this year the way it ended the last — with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private funding flowing into commercial space companies.

That compares to 31 rounds of at least $ 100 million rounds last quarter, and just 16 a year ago.

Last week Snap reported its best quarter ever last week since its March 2017 IPO, beating Wall Street revenue expectations for the fourth quarter of 2017 and posting the biggest net user addition in over a yLast week Snap reported its best quarter ever last week since its March 2017 IPO, beating Wall Street revenue expectations for the fourth quarter of 2017 and posting the biggest net user addition in over a ylast week since its March 2017 IPO, beating Wall Street revenue expectations for the fourth quarter of 2017 and posting the biggest net user addition in over a year.

But BlackBerry smartphones make up only 2.9 percent of the global smartphone market, down from 4.9 percent during the second quarter last year, says Framingham, Mass. - based research firm IDC.

The world's biggest sportswear maker last month reported flat sales in its home region for its fiscal fourth quarter, its worst performance for over six years amid strong competition from Adidas and Under Armour (ua).

The company's iPhone, which makes up the biggest chunk of its revenue, saw its first year - over-year revenue decline ever in Apple's last - reported fiscal quarter ended March 26, investors are deeply concerned about the iPad's future, and even Macs saw sales slip last quarter.

On Tuesday, Calgary - based Calfrac Well Services Ltd. reported it more than doubled its first - quarter revenue compared with the same period last year and is reactivating equipment it parked over the past three years.

Revenue totalled $ 1.25 billion, up from $ 1 billion in the same quarter last year.

IPO proceeds totaled $ 7.3 billion in the third quarter, down 81 percent from a near record $ 38.1 billion in the period last year, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers» IPOWatch.

Apple said Monday that it sold almost 61.2 million iPhones in the second quarter, which is almost 40 % more than in the same period last year.

China «s official unemployment rate has been around 4 % for years, despite the rapid slowdown in the economy from double - digit growth to quarter - century lows last year of less than 7 %.

Morgan Stanley beat expectations in the same quarter last year, reporting diluted earnings per share of $ 0.43 ($ 0.32 expected) on revenue of $ 7.86 billion ($ 7.63 billion expected).

Apple Watch shipments hovered at just 1.1 million units in the third quarter, compared to 3.9 million in the same period last year.

Europe's largest oil firm Royal Dutch Shell has beaten analyst expectations, reporting profits for its second quarter that are three times larger than this time last year.

It's been a sluggish exit market in the last few years, and the third quarter was no different.

Yet ticket prices have been declining much more modestly, falling roughly 3 percent per quarter over the last year.

Gross margins for the first quarter are expected to rise to around 23 - 24 percent from 21 percent for last year as a whole and possibly reach 23 - 25 percent in 2018 overall.

But Groupon has struggled significantly since then, and after posting a loss of $ 81.1 million in the fourth quarter of last year, its board axed Mason.

The second quarter of last year was the company's best ever, making it more difficult to top this year, the executives warned analysts.

Last year the sales numbers came in strong for the fourth quarter, but there was only one problem: as revenues rose, profits plummeted.