Sentences with phrase «by a quarter over»

Over 3 million UK workers — 1 in 10 — are now employed in «insecure» work without fixed contracts, a number that has grown by a quarter over the past five years according to the TUC.

Iowa cropland prices increased by a quarter over the past year, with the choicest plots changing hands above US$ 10,000 an acre — far above historical averages.

Amazon, Netflix, Tesla and Facebook have the following in common: revenue increase quarter by quarter over 10 %, their are the leaders on their industry, they don't pay dividends, instead, they reinvest the profits to expand the company even more.

France is to increase its spending on R&D by a quarter over the next decade under the plan for science presented last week by the French research minister, Francois Fillon.

EGAT and the institute claim that the package of measures which has now been introduced has the potential to cut growth in the electricity supply by a quarter over the next decade.

FirstGroup is following in the path of Eurostar, which announced plans recently to reduce in CO2 emissions per passenger journey by a quarter over five years, plus a 10 - point green plan.

Not exact matches

For example, if the second quarter GDP is up 3, percent this means that the economy has grown by 3 percent over the first quarter.

Fortescue Metals Group has reported increased iron ore shipments over the December quarter, but the benefits have been offset by costs of expanding and ramping up operations.

Average annual core return on equity over a period is the ratio of: a) the sum of core income less preferred dividends for the periods presented to b) the sum of: 1) the sum of the adjusted average shareholders» equity for all full years in the period presented, and 2) for partial years in the period presented, the number of quarters in that partial year divided by four, multiplied by the adjusted average shareholders» equity of the partial year.

Dong says the company is «absolutely on track» to hit its goal, particularly invigorated by a 25 % surge year over year in Nike's overall China market in the first three quarters of 2016.

It was a record for the second quarter of the year, as the summer months are usually slow for Netflix, and the company even bucked normal seasonality trends by posting sequential growth over the first quarter.

Statistics Canada predicts that the proportion of seniors could, by 2031, equal the level now seen in Japan, which has the oldest population in the G7 with one - quarter of people over age 65.

A handful of quarters and dimes may not sound impressive at first, but from a big picture perspective, Apple will be sending its investors $ 13.2 billion annually — nearly 30 % of its earnings over the last four quarters, and nearly enough to match Twitter's total value by market cap: $ 14.1 billion.

The stock is already up by 54 % since that lowly September day, and Facebook's third - quarter revenues of $ 1.26 billion (up 32 % year over year) beat Wall Street expectations of $ 1.23 billion.

Canadian Solar Inc., based in Guelph, Ont., has already taken advantage of the trend, increasing its first - quarter shipments to Japan by 75 % over the previous quarter.

The first quarter year over year revenue comparison was negatively impacted by approximately $ 184,000 due to the adoption of the new revenue recognition standard (ASC Topic 606) as well as the loss of a large customer, representing revenue of approximately $ 800,000 in the current quarter, which was previously announced as lost in Q4 2017.

Data from the Housing Industry Association has shown residential construction already beginning to increase in WA, with new home builds increasing by just over 8 per cent in the September quarter.

Within a year, Wanderu was serving the entire country and expanding by triple digits quarter over quarter.

Though «Daily Show» host Trevor Noah's ratings ticked up in the first quarter of the year and «The President Show» resonated with audiences, if not with some critics, network representatives still remember fondly Stewart's and Colbert's domination of the 11 - t0 - midnight time slot among key demographics pined over by advertisers.

Generated new leasing spreads of 15.6 %, representing the sixteenth consecutive quarter that the rental rate for new leases increased by more than 10 % over the prior rent for the comparable space.

According to research analysts at investment bank Versant Partners Inc., U.S. software expenditures in the third quarter of 2011 grew by 6.6 % over the same quarter in the previous year, the highest growth rate in the last four - and - a-half-years.

The company had been striving to make 2,500 cars per week by the end of the first quarter, but came in at just over 2,000.

Stocks fell across the board Wednesday as the year's final fiscal quarter opened to a market sell - off spurred by concerns over mounting global crises, including the first domestic case of Ebola, as well as the looming possibility of an interest rate hike.

Royal Dutch Shell fell over 5 % after it said that fourth - quarter profits would fall by 40 % from a year earlier, and that it expected to cut another 10,000 jobs together with BG Group, which it is acquiring.

William Blair analysts led by Ralph Schackart noted that «this quarter was a different story» than Yelp's last earnings report, when the company's guidance disappointed Wall Street's expectations and its stock fell 15 % over the following days.

For example, in «A Short History of the Income Tax,» John Steele Gordon points out that the U.S. income tax act of 1913 was only 14 pages long; by 1942, it had blossomed to 208 pages with over three - quarters of them «devoted to closing or defining loopholes» that tax lawyers and accountants were using to «game the system.»

Just over a quarter of Japan's population is aged 65 and over and that number is projected to rise to a third by 2035, according to Japanese government data.

The company also trumpets that the service had 155 million tweets daily by the end of the first quarter, a jump of 41 % over the prior quarter, but many tweets — news headlines, for example — are often churned out by computers, not humans visiting Twitter.com.

By contrast, well over three - quarters of Starwood's 11 - brand portfolio was either in luxury, with properties such as St. Regis, or so - called upper - upscale, the category between true luxury and limited service, consisting of brands like Westin, Le Meridien, and Sheraton.

In the fourth quarter, Salesforce's deferred revenue — what the software giant earns in advance for goods or services that have not yet been delivered — grew by double digits year over year, making Benioff that much more bullish on the $ 20 billion prospect.

But, as we can see in this chart from Statista, in three of Amazon's last five quarters it's done even more — it's covered over the red ink posted by Amazon's other segments and helped it turn a likely loss into a profit.

Over the past five years, sales have dropped by about a quarter.

However, revenues hit $ 2.64 billion for the quarter — that did beat estimates — and net income for all of 2013 increased by 18 % over 2012.

It had been almost $ 113,000 at its peak in 2007 and was $ 74,600 back in 1989, meaning that wealth for this group has declined by more than 40 % over the last quarter century.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 - Tesla Inc stood by its production targets for its Model 3 on Wednesday, assuring investors that its key new vehicle was on track, and sought to downplay increased wariness over its finances, saying it expected to achieve net profit in both its third and fourth quarters.

Stovall's also found that when inflation is between 1.5 % and 2.5 % — around where it is now — the market has risen, over the next four quarters, 80 % of the time and, on average, by 10 %.

One survey of about 200 small banks conducted by the Mercatus Center in 2013 found a quarter of the respondents predicted being involved in a merger or acquisition over the next five years.

Oil volumes of 65,800 bbl / d were 2 percent higher than the most recent quarter and 69 percent higher vs. the same period a year ago, led by a 149 percent increase in the Delaware Basin over the past 12 months.

In the first quarter, Under Armour reported a 6 percent increase in revenue over the year - earlier period to $ 1.2 billion, led by a 27 percent increase in international sales.

In contrast, core inflation has been broadly stable, with the core PCE deflator rising by 1.6 percent over the past four quarters, moderately below our 2 percent objective.

Not only have you missed your 2 % inflation target every quarter since 2012q2, but as the figure shows (using revised data on yr / yr PCE core inflation) you're missing it on the downside by a greater margin over time.

We look for Pfizer's fast - growing oncology business (sales +35 % in the March period), led by standout asset IBRANCE and recent acquisitions (Anacor and Medivation), to help support comps over the next several quarters.

Baidu also claims to have amassed over 165,000 lines of code, with approximately 65,000 new lines added by developers each quarter.

By comparison, international sales grew by 10 times that amount — 31 % — over the year in the second quarteBy comparison, international sales grew by 10 times that amount — 31 % — over the year in the second quarteby 10 times that amount — 31 % — over the year in the second quarter.

It went public in 2013 and its shares are down by a quarter from their highs in March 2015, amid concerns over the company's competitiveness.

This ratio is calculated by dividing the current Price by the sum of the Basic Earnings Per Share from continuing operations BEFORE Extraordinary Items and Accounting Changes over the last four quarters.

Revenue specific to emerging technology (including app development)- — an area related to the top customer challenges that Anna's team helped identify and address --- grew year over year by 41 % in the first quarter and 44 % in the second quarter.

Otezla sales of $ 308 million in the quarter missed analyst estimates by over $ 100 million.

Shares in Russian gold and silver producer Polymetal, which had been hit by worries over the US sanctions, jumped 12 per cent after the firm reported a 19 per cent jump in first - quarter revenue.

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.