Sentences with phrase «analyst questions as»

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But as CEO Reed Hastings and other executives answered an analysts» questions on one of Netflix's famously dull quarterly calls for investors, the after hours gain shrunk to a 5 % increase to $ 324.32.

He dismissed a question about gross margins from Bernstein senior analyst Toni Sacconaghi as «boring.»

Some security analysts, such as Avivah Litan of Gartner, the research firm, say some businesses are questioning aspects of the company's services, particularly the length of time Palantir requires for its engagements.

He referred to one analyst's query as a «boring bonehead» question, said the «dry» discussion was «killing» him and then had a lengthy exchange with a Tesla shareholder and blogger on several topics, despite Tesla's normal rule of allowing only one question per person.

On May 12, Tim Hortons held a conference call with financial analysts who had plenty of questions for Don Schroeder, a long time executive who everybody assumed held the confidence of the board as company CEO at the time.

Many insiders — Fortune spoke with 19 current and former McDonald's executives, as well as more than two dozen industry analysts and veterans — are starting to question if Thompson is up to the task and how long his tenure will last.

«The boring questions can also be categorized as the tough ones,» said Dave Sullivan, an analyst at AutoPacific.

Laughing as the analyst pushed back, Musk admitted that «I think it's quite a smart question, actually.»

As for the long - term plan, Musk dodged a question from an analyst on whether the company could ever offer an autonomous vehicle to a ride - sharing company like Uber.

Musk appeared to make matters worse on the company's conference call, as he was testy with analysts at times and dismissed some questions as «boring» and «not cool.»

We believe that these non-GAAP measures are useful to investors in assessing our operating performance, as it provides them with the same tools that management uses to evaluate our performance and is responsive to questions we receive from both investors and analysts.

Potash prices, fertilizer companies and analysts alike received a shock Tuesday as Russia's Uralkali, the world's largest potash producer, pulled out of its Belarusian Potash Company (BPC) agreement, leaving a murky view of the potash industry's future and several unanswered questions.

«It's not a question, in my opinion, as to whether you overbook,» Bastian said on a call with analysts.

In a report published May 20, RBC analysts Sara O'Brien and Elaine Lae questioned how long it would take for SNC to improve their future earnings, «given recent management reorganization, focus on ethics & compliance as well as practical distraction created by management changes and external investigations.»

Although published figures of non-performing loans (NPLs) are questioned by some analysts, loans designated as «special mention loans» — problem loans — have declined as a percentage of total loans to a little over 3 percent.

The question now, according to Wolfango Piccoli, an analyst at Teneo Intelligence who follows Italian politics, is whether Salvini will emerge as the new leader of Italy's centre - right bloc, therefore replacing Berlusconi, the former premier who was forced to step down from high office following a slew of sex and corruption scandals.

«We have in the past questioned Tesla's promise that the current hardware will be able to eventually provide full self - driving capability,» Cowen analyst Jeffrey Osborne, who rates Tesla as «underperform,» wrote in a note.

Tesla fell as much as 8.6 percent Thursday after the chief executive officer rejected analysts» questions on another quarter in which the company burned more than $ 1 billion in cash.

Tesla has been routed this month as analysts and investors have questioned the company's ability to mass - manufacture the sedan it spent billions of dollars on to quickly expand sales.

«The boring questions can also be categorized as the tough ones,» said Dave Sullivan, an analyst at AutoPacific Inc. «I hope the Tesla fans know how to swim, because without the answers to the tough questions, it looks like Musk is leading them straight into the water.»

«We expect many investors to focus on questions around strategic leadership as CEO Elon Musk hung up on analysts asking questions related to battery production runrate and what he deemed boring questions about financial and operational metrics.

A few hours after Elon Musk berated analysts for what he perceived as unimaginative questions, Volkswagen AG said it was writing a check for batteries that almost match Tesla's entire market value.

Disney is negotiating a deal valued at $ 74 billion by Bernstein Research analyst Todd Juenger, which he calculated as a 30 % premium on the $ 57.4 billion enterprise value of the assets in question.

As the iconoclastic chief executive dismissed questions and rebuked analysts, the company lost more than $ 2 billion in market capitalization.

Following Warren Buffet comments, analysts have again started raising questions over the digital currencies potential to work as the medium of exchange.

BAML's status as a national champion that is embedded deeply in the fabric of the US economy made the question of how to respond to the tax reform interesting to analysts quizzing Moynihan.

However, the 2016 advance has had many analysts questioning the integrity of this latest move as the HUI (NYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index) and the XAU (Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index) have defied gravity, the laws of physics, the Law of Diminishing Returns, and just about every other law that historically pertains to the behavior of stocks.

During the conference call with analysts, and in response to questions, CFO Marianne Lake stated that the growth is «structural» as consumers continue to embrace the digital and mobile channels.

BlackBerry 10 sales have come in well below some analysts» expectations, raising questions about whether the company can quickly win back market share from Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone as well as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's (005930.

Facebook will talk about these numbers and take analyst questions at 5 pm ET today — we'll be listening in and will update here or post others at Recode as we learn more.

Stocks in the red include Fitbit, as the wearables maker issued a weaker - than - expected current quarter guidance; Spotify as the streaming service missed on earnings but reported subscription numbers that were below expectations; and Tesla, with shares dropping despite an earnings and revenue beat, as cash burn hit $ 1 billion last quarter and CEO Elon Musk criticized analysts, and took questions from a YouTuber in a bizarre earnings call.

While analysts have welcomed Wesfarmers» decision to hive off Coles to focus on faster - growing businesses such as Bunnings and Kmart, some have questioned why the board has not tried to secure a premium by selling the entire food and liquor business to trade or private equity buyers or through an initial public offering.

As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and Developmental Therapist (DV), I hear a lot of questions about behavior related to toddlers and whether head banging might be typical or indicative of more intensive behavior interventions.

To decide a group is crazy all too often lets Political Risk Analysts off the hook, as such a characterisation implicitly means that analysis is simply impossible, as the group in question is not sane enough for rational analysis — the kind capable of being studied and assessed — to be made.

The finding has led many analysts to question whether the government recent anti-immigration initiatives, such as the so - called «racist vans» and spot checks by UK Border Agency staff, might do more damage than good to the Tories» election strategy.

is perhaps the key political question in the state in 2018, analysts say, as New York's political apparatus braces for a series of political conventions next month.

Mark Assini, supervisor of the Monroe County town of Gates and a financial analyst, has crunched the numbers of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pension smoothing proposal and come to the conclusion that, as he put it during a telephone interview this afternoon: «Stephanie is right; she is absolutely right to question this.»

Initially, News 12 analyst Mike Edelman called the report «not credible,» and many questioned the timing of the complaint, as the former staff member waited a year to write the letter until a few days before the primary election.

Back in the early 1970s, the first BI companies, such as Cognos, pioneered the design of software and computer tools able to transform raw business operations data into analyzable information — information that BI analysts could then use to answer companies» business - related questions.

Analysts have begun to address commercial spaceflight regulation, asking questions such as: Does this emerging industry need something akin to the International Civil Aviation Organization?

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In 2004, questioning underlying assumptions about real estate valuation would get an analyst dismissed as unsophisticated.

This is what it must have been like to listen to eager stock analysts explain in 1998 why some hot new Internet start - up was a sure thing while dismissing questions about strategy and execution as evidence that the stodgy questioners «just didn't get it.»

Model 3 production and sales, as well as Musk's earlier comments that Tesla does not expect to raise additional capital from the markets in the third and fourth quarters, when many analysts expect the company to run out of money, dominated the early questions.

This statistic was recently reported also by the NY Times, but was attacked by analysts who question how representative it is of ebooks as a whole: http://fortune.com/2015/09/24/ebook-sales/

Discover some of the typical questions asked in interviews for a position as a credit risk analyst — along with suggestions for good answers.

Analysts who questioned if oil was in fact in the midst of an unsustainable price bubble were dismissed as bubble headed.

Taylor suggests that «though same store sales continue to serve as a baseline indicator of retail success,» the shift in store functionality from simply completing the sale to acting as showrooms or distribution centers has led analysts to question if the metric is «appropriate to measure modern retailing.»

And games as a result have had explosive growth on tablets... Within that context, console gaming becomes a smaller portion and so it's very easy for the analysts to question if consoles have a role.

Mega-publishers EA fielded questions from investors and analysts on their latest earnings call, as is usual at the end of every quarter.