Sentences with phrase «better than my expectation»

«The results that have come out of the domestic businesses have just been much better than my expectations,» said Tom Lewandowski, a financial services analyst with Edward Jones in St. Louis.

Still, this was $ 0.08 better than our expectations.

Team plays better than expectations in the first half, but then after the all star break as the heat and wear set in, the results start regressing and we end up finishing like we did last September.

everything better than my expectations..

Might even read the books if it plays better than my expectations tell me it will.

But things are on the up and up for the company after yesterdays financial report revealed that the two player co-op open world game, Saints Row The Third, sold much better than expectations.

The things that make the 2014 Honda Accord so easy to recommend mirror what gives it such strong resale value: We expect an Accord to be good, but this Accord is better than our expectations.

Our data shows that return rates for BlackBerry Z10 devices both in the U.S. and on a global basis are in line with or better than our expectations and are consistent with return rates for other premium smartphones in the market today.»

When I got the document, it was much better than my expectation and I even managed to score average marks in my assessment.

My informal results and feedback from the blog's readers tell me they enjoy the mix, and the clickthrough rates and purchases of Kindle books for sale by independent authors have been doing better than my expectations.

MAp, 1300 Smiles, RHG and Spark Infrastructure all delivered results in line with or better than our expectations.

That's a gamble, and sometimes they do much better than expectation and better than pedigree breeds dogs.

«It sold better than our expectations.

It seems that Sony's interactive survival horror Until Dawn, which hit PS4 last month, falls into the latter camp, with Sony Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida telling Eurogamer that the game has performed better than expectations.

Not exact matches

His findings bode well for equity crowd funding, which may in fact allow backers more recourse than those who donated via Kickstarter should an entrepreneur fail to meet expectations.

That means there is an incentive to keep expectations low, and to look for scapegoats, just in case voters are feeling no better in 2019 than they were in 2015.

If we're striving only to be better than someone else, doesn't that set our expectations for ourselves too low?

So hard work and realistic expectations are better than some flighty notion of following a dream?

Dunn and other sources close to the company said that financially Bonobos was doing better than it ever had, meeting or exceeding expectations for this year.

The 0.3 - percentage - point estimate is slightly higher than most expectations but well below Republicans» assurances.

Shares of Fitbit jumped 7 percent after the wearable electronic company reported a loss that was better than analyst expectations.

It's always better to commit to less than raise people's expectations and fail to follow through.

The numbers were still better than market expectations.

The Labor Department's assessment of the overall economy was stronger than expected, exceeding analyst expectations as well as gains in May and June, when the economy added 126,000 and 166,000 jobs, respectively.

It is far better to under - promise and over-deliver than set high expectations and fall short.

We're placing more expectations on our relationships than ever before — we want our partner to be our best friend, our lover, our intellectual sparring partner, maybe our co-parent — while simultaneously investing less time and energy in the relationship.

Novartis (NVS) shares have lost more than a fifth of their value this year, in part due to concerns about its lagging eyecare business Alcon as well as Entresto's prospects for meeting ambitious expectations.

Snap shares plummeted more than 13 percent in extended trading after the social media company reported earnings and revenue misses, as well as a miss on analyst expectations for global daily active users.

The company's earnings were up 27 %, slightly better than analysts» expectations.

In reality, over-promising on capabilities can lead to mismanaged expectations and may do more harm than good to a leader's reputation.

But in the first quarter, it was better - than - expected results in fixed - income trading that enabled overall firm profits to beat analyst expectations.

The Cupertino, California, mobile giant on Tuesday reported fiscal third - quarter earnings that were better than analysts estimated, and its revenue was largely in line with expectations — but it wasn't the blowout Wall Street has gotten used to.

Small - cap stocks, generally considered to be the best marker of tax cut expectations because usually they pay higher effective tax rates than larger companies, rallied into mid-February.

While it represented the second - consecutive quarter of decline, the adjusted figure topped consensus expectations by roughly a nickel, thanks to higher gross margins and better - than - anticipated growth in revenues.

Core inflation has been lower than expected in recent months... Core inflation is expected to increase gradually over coming quarters, reaching 2 per cent by the middle of 2013 as the economy gradually absorbs the current small degree of slack, the growth of labour compensation remains moderate and inflation expectations stay well anchored.

With thye release of the fourth quarter results, which posted somewhat more weakness than expected, they could well lower their expectations for 2013 even farther.

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Yes, Macy's earnings were better than the Street expected, but expectations were hardly a high bar.

But since expectations are key, I would rather go into an episode like this with a well - understood target, than without.

Revenue came in at $ 231 million, 25 percent higher than a year ago but well below Wall Street's expectation for $ 244 million.

SG&A expenses in the first quarter were somewhat lower than our expectations and reflected a reversal of prior - year accruals, as well as a shift in marketing timing.

It's a lot better than dealing with unmet expectations.

Stratasys, which executed better than 3D Systems in terms of meeting earnings expectations, was punished for lowering its earnings guidance in November.

The better - than - month - long climb in the market since the election of Donald J. Trump as President - elect has been driven by optimism about domestic economic stimulus and the expectation that the incoming Administration will push for lower corporate taxes and less government regulation.

And less frequent and less celebrated data such as the Purchasing Managers Indexes may provide a better view of future profits than analyst's expectations.

In the realm of loving and promoting the irrational over the rational expectations of the MODEL BUILDERS, there is no better poster child than German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) reported better - than - expected earnings for its first quarter on Wednesday, but sales fell short of expectations.

«As the number continues to climb to something approaching 4,000 - 5,000, we think Model 3 gross margins should turn profitable, which doesn't indicate it will meet long - term targets, but should prove to be better than the more bearish expectations of the car being EBIT - negative, even at scale,» Arnson and Erickson said.

I will say that the sale exceeded our expectations — sold well over asking price and in less than one week!

In the current context, the expectation of a temporary period of lower growth and inflation may well point to a case for monetary policy to be on the expansionary side of neutral, as it already is, but it is not of itself a case for moving to a more expansionary stance than is currently in place.