Sentences with phrase «cent a year ago»

For the quarter ended July 20, Dick's adjusted earnings were 96 cents a share, up from 82 cents a year ago, but less than the $ 1.00 expected by Wall Street and even its own forecast of $ 1.02 a share to $ 1.07 a share.

Fourth - quarter revenue rose 31 % to $ 895.2 million, while profit for the period climbed to 40 cents a share from 30 cents a year ago.

That fee was roughly 30 cents a year ago.

However, excluding non-recurring items, Couche - Tard said it earned 61 cents per share, up from 57 cents a year ago.

As for operating system market share, comScore says that Google is first with 50.5 per cent of the market running some version of Android, up from 44 per cent a year ago.

Wall Street had expected Yahoo to earn 10 cents a share on $ 1.08 billion in the quarter, down from 16 cents a year ago.

The recent strength in employment growth contributed to a further decline in the unemployment rate to 6 3/4 per cent in the June quarter, compared with almost 7 1/2 per cent a year ago (Graph 21).

According to the NAB quarterly business survey, mining companies increased their hedging of exposures from less than 10 per cent a year ago to just under 30 per cent in June (Table 7).

This represents a slowing in the rate of inflation from around 3 per cent a year ago (Graph 70).

This took the target rate to 3 per cent, up from 1 per cent a year ago (Graph 14).

Adjusted net earnings were 33 cents per share, compared with 13 cents a year ago.

And apart from the narrowing of the polls, there was some bad news for the Tory leader, as 62 per cent of voters described him as a lightweight politician, compared to 57 per cent a year ago.

Maybe you should ditch, OKCupid and J - Date look for love in another corner of the Internet This has soared from five per cent a year ago, the study by Divorce Online found.

One word of caution, however — as of this writing Amazon will charge the Kindle account holder fifteen cents per document emailed, up from ten cents a year ago (can you say 50 % rate increase in the middle of a recession?).

A 10 - year Treasury note has a yield of nearly 2.80 per cent, up from 2.36 per cent a year ago.

However, in Alberta, hard hit by the downturn in oil prices, the rate increased to 2.8 per cent from 2.5 per cent a year ago, while in Saskatchewan, the rate increased to 3.04 per cent from 2.88 per cent.

Overall, delinquency rates for non-mortgage loans in the fourth quarter were roughly the same at 2.67 per cent, versus 2.66 per cent a year ago.

Offers for five - year fixed mortgage rates have moved north of three per cent in recent weeks compared with under 2.5 per cent a year ago, according to rate - watching website Ratehub.ca.

This is the reason why our dependence on single premium polices has come down in the current fiscal to 51 per cent from nearly 60 per cent a year ago,» said a senior official at LIC.

While incurred claim ratio of the company came down to 87 per cent from 89 per cent a year ago, its combined ratio, indicating overall financial health of the company, has improved from 116 per cent to 111 per cent during the reporting period.

Not exact matches

Continental posted net income of $ 233.9 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $ 469,000, or less than a penny per share, in the year - ago quarter, when oil prices plummeted - and the company's production costs were higher.

Revenue was US$ 29.79 billion, up more than four per cent from a year ago and in line with analyst expectations.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 66.79 points to 15,334.59 as the Standard & Poor's / Case - Shiller 20 - city home price index rose 12.4 per cent in July compared with a year ago, the most since February 2006.

This was ahead of analysts» expectations for 26 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S, but down from $ 1.09 per share a year ago, when a buoyant stock market boosted investment returns.

This is up 6 cents from a week ago, 30 cents from a month ago and 97 cents from a year ago.

Net income at Verizon Communications was US$ 2.25 billion, or 78 cents per share, up 23 per cent from a year ago, the company said Thursday.

Sprint reported a profit of $ 69 million, or 2 cents per share, compared with a loss of $ 283 million, or 7 cents per share, in the year - ago quarter.

Neither existed in Germany or the Netherlands just a few years ago, but they now account for 17 per cent and 32 per cent of their respective markets, the analysis firm says.

Those poor handset sales weighed on BlackBerry's revenue, which was US$ 1.2 billion, down 56 per cent from a year ago when it didn't have the new smartphone models on the market.

This was ahead of analysts» expectations for 26 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S, but down from $ 1.09 per share a year ago, when a buoyant stock market boosted...

It boosted service revenues by 8.3 per cent from a year ago.

This financial picture, combined with the labour strife, has forced its share price below 90 cents, down from $ 1.10 in January and a tiny fraction of its value five years ago, when it traded at close to $ 20.

That compares with $ 306.5 million, or 87 cents per share, a year ago.

While fourth - quarter net income climbed 21 per cent from year - ago results depressed by a litigation charge, Its quarterly performance missed both analysts» estimates and the company's own expectations.

That compared with a profit of $ 50.2 million or 21 cents per diluted share a year ago.

On an adjusted basis, Restaurant Brands, which also owns Burger King and Popeyes, says it earned 66 cents per share for the quarter, up from 36 cents per share a year ago.

The average price of condos throughout the GTA in July was $ 501,750, an increase of 23.2 per cent from a year ago.

Cannabis oil sales accounted 23 per cent of Canopy's revenue for the latest quarter, compared to 13 per cent in the same period a year ago.

On an adjusted basis to remove one - time items such as the tax charge, Canada's biggest lenders earned roughly $ 11.3 billion, up approximately 12.59 per cent from a year ago

As well, the company's gross margins before fair value adjustments shrunk from 58 per cent of sales or $ 12.5 million, compared to 64 per cent of sales or $ 6.2 million in the fiscal third quarter a year ago.

Nordstrom's net income fell to $ 110 million, or 65 cents per share, from $ 117 million, or 67 cents per share, one year ago.

A year ago, foreign buyers in Vancouver also had to pay a 15 per cent tax.

The number of applications for university places this year has fallen by 25.4 per cent in Western Australia, as a result of the change 12 years ago in the school starting age.

In the quarter ended Dec. 31, Starbucks said net income rose to $ 2.25 billion, or $ 1.57 per share, from $ 751.8 million, or 51 cents per share, a year ago.

The Toronto - based miner said adjusted net earnings for the quarter ended March 31 were $ 170 million, or 15 cents a share, compared with $ 162 million, or 14 cents a share in the same three - month period a year ago.

Adjusted earnings per share of 95 cents were down 10 % from a year ago and missed estimates by 1 cent.

«We look at people who bought two years ago and they've now made 30 per cent on their purchase.

The company said profits sharply declined to $ 21 million, or 2 cents per share, from $ 312 million, or 29 cents per share, a year ago.

RBC's Canadian residential mortgage portfolio was $ 258 billion in the latest quarter, up 5.7 per cent from $ 244 billion in the same quarter a year ago.

RBC's wealth management division reported a 39 per cent increase in net income to $ 597 million from $ 167 million in the same quarter one year ago, in part reflecting a lower effective tax rate.