Sentences with phrase «are an optimistic estimate»

Let's assume for now that the number is really around $ 160 million, and once again, that's an optimistic estimate.

I think that may be an optimistic estimate, and the end likely to come sooner.

And given that nothing, but nothing proves that Sturgeon's Law is an optimistic estimate better than Kindle and Nook self - published books, I can at least rest assured that I won't ever be buying one of yours.

Yes, as I had suspected, it is now scheduled for 1:00 p.m., which also turns out to be an optimistic estimate.

As with all travel in Laos, travel times listed are optimistic estimates.

Not exact matches

It's also important to keep your expectations realistic and honest: The biggest mistake entrepreneurs can make when writing a business plan, says Starbird, is to be overly optimistic with sales and future cost estimates.

The IMF and European Commission both estimate that Italy's debt - to - GDP ratio will begin to fall in 2016, but other analysts argue that these estimates are based on overly optimistic growth projections.

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

The median target price is $ 66, with the most optimistic estimate hitting $ 75 and the lowest $ 49, according to S&P Capital IQ.

Applying the lower of these two weighted - average calculations (24 percentage points) to Canada's existing automotive manufacturing footprint (and assuming that the dislocation for Canada's industry is only proportional to the overall North American shrinkage, an assumption which is probably optimistic), allows us to generate an estimate of the potential scale of economic loss if the U.S. - Japan rules were implemented.

Making assumptions that we would guess are particularly optimistic about Living Goods, we estimate the cost per life saved at about $ 4,400.

(While you might assume that people will typically make the mistake of being overly optimistic, they actually tend to under estimate their longevity.)

«And right now, their own optimistic estimate for response time is that they will get back to you in 5 days.»

Such an optimistic estimate is being driven by positive trends across Jabil's business, especially enterprise and diversified manufacturing.

Windsor thinks estimates for Apple to ship 255 million iPhone X units next year are overly optimistic and ten million more than what he is anticipating.

This number tends to be less optimistic than that of bottom up estimates.

Our BlackRock Investment Institute (BII) forecast has long been more optimistic on growth than consensus, but recently the consensus estimates have caught up with the BII, which strikes us as a good contrarian indicator.

We generally prefer stocks over bonds and are optimistic about further upward revisions to earnings estimates.

Plans that were fully funded 20 years ago, today have maybe two - thirds of the capital needed to cover benefit promises — and that optimistic estimate assumes zero bear markets and fantastical average real returns of 7 % + a year going forward.

The S&P 500 Index has already gained approximately 4 % since September 15, and retails sales estimates for the holiday season may give investors another reason to be optimistic.

«The concept of a margin of safety is that an investor should purchase a security at a price sufficiently below his estimate of its intrinsic value that he will have protection against permanent loss even if his estimate proves somewhat optimistic.»

Estimates from both Wall Street and Estimize were a bit too optimistic in the previous two quarters, though they both underestimated per - share earnings in the previous period.

If anything, their estimates, which rely on imperfect precedents, are too optimistic.

Still, the estimates of prospective 10 - year S&P 500 returns below stick with a 6.3 % long - term economic growth assumption, because I want to emphasize that prospective market returns are dismal even on optimistic economic assumptions.

It was his defense of democracy (which had so recently been under military attack), and a corrective of its traditional defense (which he felt was based on an overly optimistic estimate of man's moral capacities).

That optimistic estimate has been revised.

If we became wildly optimistic, and estimated that 75 percent would opt for over a year's treatment, then at a two - third success rate, 50 percent would still be addicted.

After all the media obligations and transit to the airport an optimistic estimate would have the Bearcats on their plane at 1 a.m. to travel home from Sacramento for a flight that's around four hours.

I m optimistic we will win it 2 - 1 but it will be a tight match never ever under - estimate any team in the fa cup final... Coyg

It's been nice to spread the costs and care around a half - dozen households, especially when by even optimistic estimates we won't recoup our costs for a couple years.

Johnson said he was optimistic he could wrangle at least $ 600 million from the city and state for NYCHA, but pointed out that the overall repair bill is estimated at $ 20 billion.

County comptroller Stefan Mychajliw says some costs are up and some revenues are down and the Poloncarz Administration was overly optimistic in its sales tax estimates.

But even on the government's figures it is only due to raise # 2.5 bn of the # 700bn required — and those estimates may be wildly optimistic.

The stop in shelter openings came just as the homeless population was surging in early 2015, and the de Blasio administration was relying on optimistic estimates of how quickly new rental subsidy programs would slow the flow of people needing emergency shelter.

Changhua Wu, a Chinese analyst with The Climate Group international think tank, says the CAT's estimate may be optimistic.

John Watson, a professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, thinks this estimate is a tad optimistic.

«We're optimistic that, with additional research, we'll be able to use bone density and minimum diameter to provide much more accurate estimates of bullet caliber to the authorities,» Ross says.

Optimistic estimates are that it will merely double over the rest of the century.

Rough estimates indicated that under the most optimistic scenarios, corresponding to the lowest plausible value for the Planck scale, black holes could be produced at the rate of one per second.

Even with those incentives, the Energy Information Administration estimates the share of plug - in vehicles in 2040 will be 5.14 percent in its most optimistic scenario, according to the paper.

Even the most optimistic estimates suggest it will be three to five years before a commercial vehicle is ready to reach the International Space Station.

But the latest study, by ecologists Peter Reich and Sarah Hobbie at the University of Minnesota in St Paul, suggests that estimates of how much CO2 land plants can use are far too optimistic.

The Coast Guard, for one, is «cautiously optimistic» about this effort to end the oil spill that has gushed between 12,000 and 25,000 barrels per day since April 20, according to a new estimate from the U.S. Geological Survey.

His tune seems to be a little more muted now, but his new estimate of 10 - 12 years — before 2026 — is still fairly optimistic.

Optimistic and pessimistic estimates for missing biological trait data are represented by solid and dashed lines respectively.

National estimates of death following general surgery have been too optimistic, according to the first large - scale study to explore surgical outcomes across Europe, led by Queen Mary, University of London.

Battery life could also be a major issue; many complained that Nintendo's suggestion that the controller should stay charged for 3 - 5 hours of gameplay is wildly optimistic, with actual usage routinely falling at the low end of that estimate (or, for more than one reviewer, well below the 3 - hour mark).

Either estimate is nonetheless a good deal closer to, and a good deal less optimistic about, the truth than the wildly inaccurate estimates that the public offered about teacher salaries and school expenditures.

Second, our estimates of teacher biases suggests that all teachers are overly optimistic about whether their students will complete college, but that white teachers are less optimistic about black students than are black teachers.

Audi estimates that these innovations can help the Aicon travel 497 miles on a single charge, although that might be an estimate based on the optimistic New European Driving Cycle.