Sentences with phrase «better than past years»

Quicken For Mac 2018 is significantly better than past years, but it still doesn't fully compete with online free options

We're assuming the category growth rates are only slightly better than this past year, and we expect competitive activity will remain elevated.

Perhaps a second try will prove better than this past year's Searchlight / Swank outing.

Not exact matches

That's better than the past two years, though.

That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

Our management team has a good track record of making the right bets, which has led to a greater than 1,000 percent average annual growth over the past three years and enabled us to make the Inc. 500.

Polished or not, the VR we are seeing today is better than anything we've seen in the past, and the promise of what VR could become in a few more years is tantalizing.

And yet — here's where things get interesting — Canadians are far better off than one would tell looking at our dismal productivity performance over the past 20 years.

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.

The good news is that lenders have opened the spigot in the past few years, and more capital is flowing to companies than it did during the Great Recession.

But unlike in past years, consumers will have to shop around to get the best deal, as some of the major wireless carriers have decided to sell the new Samsung models for 10 % or more higher than the list price.

«Everything we do today is better than what we did yesterday,» says Ron McArthur, the company's president for the past five years.

The company has completed more than 10 acquisitions over the past year, including assets in Mexico, Russia and Brazil, as well as the Edmonton - based maker of Cold - FX, Afexa Life Sciences.

Within days, a team of designers was in the XJ offices, mapping out the next generation in customer - relationship management software with a clear mandate: «Take the best of what we've done in this space over the past 20 years,» says Tatham, «and starting from scratch, build better than ever before.»

Perhaps more surprising is Buffett's second - best pick over the past year, as it has recently been known more for controversy than outperformance: United Airlines stock, up almost 44 % since the investor bought it in the third quarter of 2016.

He expects that next year, as large companies negotiate their benefits contracts, they will be asking much more than in the past «will a carve - out option look better, or does the carve - in option look better?»

For the past several years, the fund has produced double - digit returns, a far better performance than any savings account, which is why you need to allocate even limited financial resources across different savings and investment vehicles.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

«We have seen our online sales grow by more than 50 per cent in the past year and new services, such as in - store reserve and pickup, more than doubling,» said Best Buy Canada president Ron Wilson in a release.

And several Democrats said recent conversations with Springer, as well as his schedule, suggested he seemed to be more seriously interested in running this time than in years past.

Some of the best - performing stocks in the sector over the past year include Nvidia and Micron, both of which are up more than 100 percent in that period.

Out of more than 600 jobs tracked by Statistics Canada, the following 10 professions had the best combination of high wages and employment growth over the past five years.

He argued that the Fed's inflation record over the past 15 to 20 years has been as good as or better than central banks in Europe that have only a single price - stability mandate.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

Here's hoping it does better than his mining interests, some of which fell almost 50 % over the past year.

Rozovsky basically said that having studied 180 teams at Google over the past several years and trying to determine what made some teams perform better than others (despite every team being filled with over-achievers who work at Google) one factor stood out more than others: Creating «psychologically safe environments.»

Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

Cable sports giant ESPN's struggles in recent years have been well - documented, with the Walt Disney - owned network shedding more than 12 million subscribers in the past six years as the number of cord - cutters has ticked upwards and cable providers have started offering slimmer bundles that don't always include ESPN.

He's said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.

That deal has turned out better than the acquisitions HP has made during the past five years under three different CEOs.

I have been blessed with my own business for the past year and a half as well as a job that I love more than anything (besides Mom, of course.)

Fox's guest stint didn't just reinforce how much the show has evolved past its initial premise — if anything, losing Jess made the show better than it had been in years.

Best of all, Wells Fargo has grown its interest earning assets by $ 123 billion, or 8 %, over the past year alone, which is significantly greater than its competition.

2016.02.12 Overspenders in overdrive this past holiday season, shifting into savings mode in 2016 — RBC Despite their best intentions, the number of Canadians who are spending more than they expect to each holiday season continues to grow, reaching the highest point in five years this past December...

Well, to kick things off, it is important to mention the fact that during the last five years, bitcoin's value has increased with around 25,000 %, which means that if you would have bought the digital currency in the past, you may have been able to earn 250 times more than your initial investment today.

To be sure, over the past year China has powered through a slowdown in home price gains, weaker credit growth and an environmental crackdown to deliver better - than - expected growth.

They had forward price / earnings (PE) ratios9 higher than less expensive countries that provided better returns over the past year.

Investors over the past few years who had the foresight to lock in yields that are far better than they are now currently have been rewarded.

The 235,626 ounces of gold produced at Lihir during the quarter was better than six of the past nine quarters, and suggests the mine is still capable of becoming the million ounce per year gold mine that it was always supposed to be.

This figure is a good deal higher than the 1.7 per cent for the latest year - ended rise in the CPI, but the pick - up includes the effect of dropping out the impact of the health insurance rebate, which reduced the CPI in the March quarter 1999, some further effects from past movements in crude oil prices, and an increase in tobacco taxes in the December quarter.

This is when people poured thousands of dollars to start their companies, such as Laundromats, store fronts etc; But if you really look at this scenario, maybe about the 5 % who did make it past the first five years, 3 of them were struggling just to pay rent and stay alive, 1 was doing a little bit better than the others, and the other 1 was doing exceptional.

Since a month ago that I got in contact with you my trading knowledge has gotten better than it was in the past two years.

In the past 10 years, a falling dollar is better for stocks than a rising dollar, and mid-caps benefit most from the falling dollar.

The past year was better than expected for investors.

We know from various studies done in the social sciences in the past forty years, as well as from fifteen plus years of my being involved with personas, the trio of users / buyers / customers makes decisions based on much more than just content or information.

Even though the S&P 500 is less than 3 points above its March peak, and the index remains lower than its level of 5 years ago, and has underperformed T - bills for the past 7 years, I realize that the chatter about «4 year highs» can make it seem frustrating that the Strategic Growth Fund is well hedged here.

In our investigations, we've looked at as much data as possible — emphasizing what we believe to be the best information, rather than just the data from the past few years.

Since the rise of bitcoin over the past year, there has been a lot of discussion amongst the anti-government, pro-competing currencies crowd: is gold a better than investment than bitcoin or the other way around?

A better question would be: why do so few of them know that startups have raised more than $ 220 million in the past three years through a new financial instrument that...

IBIS also notes that people are more capable of affording these types of services now than when compared to some years past, which helps with industry growth as well.