Sentences with phrase «flat this year compared»

The HBR study found inside counsel spend slowed to 3 % from 5 %, while outside counsel was flat this year compared to a 2 % drop the previous year.

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Revenue fell short of forecasts, however, amid flat pricing compared to a year earlier.

Sales were flat in North America, compared with a 38 percent growth in the Asia - Pacific region, but that was enough to knock 5 percent off the stock which has gained more than two - thirds in value over the past year.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

Sales at Gap North America, owned by Gap Inc., have declined in the past six months, and are flat compared to last year.

The company's search data, however, show interest in Calgary has been flat, while the number of inquiries for Edmonton is up 50 per cent in the first quarter compared to the year before.

The brand has been generating a lot of buzz among the fashonista crowd for its on - trend but budget - friendly pieces, but during its most recent quarter saw flat sales compared to a year ago.

She was granted an annual long - term incentive award valued at $ 13.3 million, flat compared to the prior year.

Compared to the start of the year, the expected timing of any further Fed interest rate hikes has been pushed back, and the expected upward trajectory of U.S. short - term rates is now much flatter.

VA sales, which fell 9 percent last year to $ 95.6 billion compared to 2016, are expected to be flat to down 1 percent to 5 percent in 2018.

After six consecutive quarters of decline, the fourth quarter results for total annuity sales were flat, compared to this quarter last year, at $ 50.8 billion.

As a percentage of sales, SG&A expenses were 23.4 % and flat compared to last year.

We now expect adjusted EPS of $ 0.39 to $ 0.40, which represents year - over-year growth of about 20 % and adjusted EBITDA to be flat to up 1 % compared to 2015.

Though results were better than both analysts and management were expecting, revenue was about flat compared to the year - ago period and non-GAAP EPS fell 34 %.

Fiat Chrysler stock has gained nearly 35 percent year - to - date, compared with flat performance in GM stock.

It repeated on Friday that it expected sales at stores open at least a year to be flat or down 1 % for the full year compared with an earlier, more optimistic projection of a 1 % increase.

Excluding the volatile fresh food component, consumer prices have been flat over the past year, compared with deflation rates of almost 1 per cent in recent years, although part of this improvement is attributable to increases in administered medical prices and tobacco taxes earlier in 2003.

The company posted net income of $ 35.3 million for the six months ended June 30, flat compared with the year - ago period, according to its prospectus.

For the first half of this year, state officials found that, even though the market was flat, Wall Street profits rose 29 percent compared to this time last year.

However, this would mark the second year in a row of flat funding for R&RA; the FY 2017 omnibus was less generous to NSF compared to other nondefense science agencies.

After three years of relatively flat and sometimes declining test scores, K12, Inc.'s full - time students appear to have increased their proficiency levels in both reading and math, even as K12, Inc. serves a population with 62 percent of its student eligible for free - and - reduced price lunch, compared to 49 percent nationally.

In 2015 — 16, third - grade reading proficiency fell to 45.7 percent from 48.8 percent two years earlier, while eighth - grade reading proficiency was flat at 39.7 percent compared to 39.9 percent two years earlier.

Charters will face a second - straight year of flat per student funding, rising costs, and a glaring funding gap of nearly $ 4,000 compared to public operating funding for traditional district schools.

Math scores were relatively flat, with two fewer students testing as proficient in math this year compared to last year.

In fact, in 74 percent of the 206 New York districts, opt - out rates have decreased or remained flat compared with last year.

Louisiana standardized test scores for third - through eighth - graders stayed essentially flat this year: 69 percent of those students scored at or above grade level compared to 68 percent last year, according to results released Wednesday.

Park Ridge - Niles District 64 students» performance on statewide reading and math exams in 2017 was largely flat compared to the year before, prompting district officials to launch an audit to determine how to boost students» scores.The percentage of...

August U.S. sales will maintain the relatively steady course of the past two months, with flat results compared to year - ago and an annual selling rate of 17 million - plus, based on a Ward's forecast.

Sales in the first four months of this year were again flat compared with last year.

Religious Presses had 11.0 % growth in Oct., compared to Oct. 2014; even with that bump, sales are flat year - to - date compared to 2014.

Retail generated fourth quarter EBITDA of $ 53 million, essentially flat as compared to a year ago.

And the company said e-reader shipments this year will be between 10 and 15 million — flat compared to last year.

Interviewer Gregg Greenberg noted the ETFs» performance so far this year, saying NOBL is up 6 % in 2016, REGL is up 7.8 % and SMDV is up 4.6 % compared to parent indexes that are flat, down, or up only slightly.

Sequoia shareholders have lost 27 % over the past year, compared with a flat S&P 500, performance that is worst than all other large - cap growth funds tracked by Morningstar.

The company's search data, however, show interest in Calgary has been flat, while the number of inquiries for Edmonton is up 50 per cent in the first quarter compared to the year before.

According to Nielsen, for the 52 weeks ending Aug. 30, 2014, dollar sales of total pet food in all outlets totaled more than $ 14 billion, which was flat compared to the same period the previous year.

This was pretty much flat compared to the ¥ 105.5 billion generated in the prior year, despite overall unit shipments declining by 0.58 million.

For the period since 2005 to be part of a flat or falling GMT trend would require at least most years since 2005 to be substantially cooler than the trend from 1997 to 2005, which we know from multiple independent sources to not be so (or, 2012 must be very cold compared to 2005).

Dr. Judith Curry recently compared five data sets of global temperatures and found that all but one show the warming trend has been essentially flat for various periods exceeding 10 years in length during the past 18 years.

He notes that even if growth in the legal market stayed flat over the next few years, «about 91 percent of the class of 2016 will find long - term, full - time work, compared with about 72 percent last year.»

AAA has seen a 12 % increase in flat tire calls in January 2018 as compared to 2017, as well as an increase in pothole - related roadside assistance calls compared to years past.

Both phones feature the curved screen corners that have come into fashion this year, but the G6 feels much flatter compared to the V30.

The bigger battery meant a modest gain in battery life — 9 hours and 16 minutes on this year's G4 compared with 9 hours flat on last year's model.

Unfortunately, we continue to expect home sales to be flat during the second half of the year compared to the first half due to strong home price appreciation and lean inventories.»

Still, Yun expects sales to be flat compared to a year ago due to the shortage of homes for sale as well as reduced affordability for many house hunters.

And about 12 percent said they will remain flat compared to 13 percent last year.

Sales for holiday season 2002 were flat compared to last year, according to ICSC's survey of non-anchor stores at 58 U.S. malls released this week...

Port Washington, N.Y. - based Cedar reported flat FFO growth in the third quarter at $ 0.31 per share compared to last year and its same - store NOI decreased 1.4 percent during the quarter.

The numbers for all four regions were flat or up compared to a year ago.

Office pricing is down 0.8 percent compared to last year, while apartment pricing was relatively flat at -0.3 percent, according to Ten - X.