Sentences with phrase «earnings focuses on the year»

A person's income doesn't begin to stabilize until their late twenties, so our analysis of earnings focuses on the year when students were 28, the oldest age at which we observe a sufficiently large number of students.

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The analysis of the Task Force is based on 1992 tax data and focuses on the subset of the population that has: made C / QPP contributions that year; relies on earnings from employment and self - employment as its major source of income; is between ages 25 and 65; and has annual income between $ 20,000 and $ 80,000.

Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty is focusing more on software and services in a bid to reignite sales and meet an ambitious goal of $ 20 a share in earnings by next year.

Oil - related earnings will likely rebound faster than metals over the next few years as banks focus on building revenues in the oil derivatives market, which is historically a much bigger business than metals derivatives, Shahani said.

In its 2017 fourth quarter earnings call, the brand had laid out a new year plan of action that involved a focus on digital initiatives with a delivery - integrated point of sale system and a social media marketing strategy.

Net earnings for the quarter rose to $ 98.5 billion from $ 84.9 million a year ago but investors focused on news that the company will split into two public entities.

After several years marked by operational difficulties and debt reduction, Barrick Gold Corp. on Tuesday opened its first quarter earnings in 2018 by telling shareholders it received two credit upgrades and is returning its focus to growth.

A weak dollar is likely to help VF's earnings during the current quarter, but shareholders seemed focused on the company's challenges coming after a good year for the stock in 2017.

However in contrast to Cupid's earnings, eHarmony recently reported incredible subscriber growth and better earnings than they have seen in years, due to focusing on long - term relationships and technology that they market as extremely valuable for finding the «right» match.

Yet the rhetoric is much different than this time last year when then - CEO William Lynch focused his earnings report comments solely on the promise of the Nook business, which was still growing at the time.

That final bit is interesting in relation to Google's indie bookseller angle, — a very savvy PR move on their part, partnering with the likes of mega-independent Powell's and smaller retailers like WORD via the ABA's IndieCommerce platform — and the belief that this somehow levels the playing field, as if ebooks have been the issue all along, as opposed to Amazon's perfecting ecommerce while Jeff Bezos ignored the pundits who focused only on his quarterly earnings in the early years.

Interestingly, the company has been able to growth its earnings at an average annual rate of 30.2 % a year over the last five years as the company has focused on deep cost - cutting measures.

But no, I don't explicitly focus on earnings growth, though I do look at forecast earnings for next year, which embeds a future ROE forecast.

I wanted to focus on companies that have a solid history of earnings (10 year earnings per share growth), revenue growth and most importantly (for me)-- dividends.

The primary growth filter constructed for this article focuses on year - to - year changes in earnings per share from continuing operations, looking for steady and increasing earnings annually.

The research focuses on our favorite indicator, price - to - book value, but also includes price - to - cash flow, price - to - earnings, sales growth over the preceding five years and combinations of the foregoing.

Focus instead on AVP's GAAP earnings, which declined consistently from $ 1.45 to $ 1.18 in the past 3 years.

Six years since the book's publication, Shilling's prediction has largely proven correct, with two exceptions: corporate profits have risen during this time because of an intense focus on cost cutting; and corporate earnings per share (EPS) have risen due to financial engineering.

A number of my recent articles have focused on the aggressive expectations for earnings growth over the next couple of years in relation to expectations for economic growth.

I have been investing for five years and I am primarily focused on long equities, using Buffett's «owner earnings» theory as the principle method of assessing intrinsic value.

If you want to get better value investing returns, it's important to focus on stocks that are cheap in relation to earnings, and consider a variety of other investment qualities like years of profit, years of paying dividends, and manageable debt If you invest in good... Read More

I prefer to focus on cash not earnings coverage for dividends (unless there's a secular earnings decline): It's comforting to know ARGO can fund this dividend for the next 17 years even if they never earn another penny..!

By focusing on a company's competitive advantages and what the value will be in 3 - 5 years, we can buy companies such as Disney (DIS) after September 11, 2001, or Philips today that are dominant leaders in their industries and will grow with high returns, but have short - term earnings challenges.

Management sold Duke Energy's international energy business (which was 5 % of earnings) last year to reduce its earnings volatility and focus the company completely on its core domestic operations.

While the idea for this health feature was born out of results from a survey that Fitbit sends users every year, it was still inline with the company's focus on the health space (recently highlighted by CEO James Park in the company's fourth quarter earnings call).

On Monday during it's earnings call Fitbit told analysts, reporters, and investors that the Fitbit Ionic smartwatch released last year was «performance focused,» while newer watches from the company would have «mass appeal.»

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«That's the way we've been growing earnings — by focusing on those areas in particular — over the last couple of years,» he says.