Sentences with phrase «growth of years past»

I'll admit though, flat sales numbers are much less exciting than the double - digit growth of years past.

Not exact matches

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 % job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000 jobs.

Tightening of monetary policy meant to cool the housing market over the past year, combined with a wind - down in public works, has served to slow GDP growth into the single digits.

Larry Puglia, whose T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund has trounced the S&P 500 with annualized returns of 18.5 % over the past five years (and 37 % in 2017 alone), says that some of the same companies he avoided around the turn of the millennium are now among the biggest holdings in his portfolio, including Amazon (amzn), Alphabet (googl), and Microsoft (msft).

Ongoing ticket - price inflation has kept box office revenues climbing the past couple of years, but the fact remains that the number of people actually going to the movies each year has not shown the same growth.

«We are losing count of the number of intraquarter guidedowns that the company has had in the past year plus, which is not what we, or anyone else, wants to see in what is ostensibly a growth stock.»

«A lot of things have come together in the past few years to put us on a growth trajectory.»

Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.

Adam Belsher, who left his job in September as vice-president of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack of accountability is partly a result of the company's rapid growth over the past decade.

Sometimes that trouble makes for a grim longer - term outlook: General Electric, for example, has seen its stock fall 51 % in the past year, but stalled growth and a tangled web of liabilities from its former GE Capital unit make it a stock to be wary of.

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.

One of the reasons the IMF has changed its tune on fiscal policy is because research it has done in the past year shows that borrowing to pay for infrastructure pays for itself over the longer term by generating faster economic growth.

«Given the steady growth of the Mexican import segment in the US over the past few years, the addition of Sol represents a key addition to our portfolio,» Molson Coors CEO and President Mark Hunter said in a statement.

For the past two years, it's had the highest year - over-year growth of any Buffalo Wild Wings location in the country and is still growing.

Though the rebound in growth over the past couple of years has seen unemployment across the bloc fall, the jobless rate remains elevated at 8.5 percent.

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

Limitedbrands has shown solid growth and profitability over the past year and a lot of that has to do with their strong performance in the Canadian marketplace.

«China's strong and sustained growth over the past several years has served as a linchpin for global trade, benefiting exporters of commodities and capital goods,» the fund said in a report.

Over the past three years, Under Armour (ua) reported annual sales growth of 28 % in 2015, 32 % in 2014, and 27 % in 2013.

Barclays said, given the growth in Netflix's programming over the past year, the number of hours viewed per subscriber should arguably have increased, not held steady.

Still, the company in the past year has moved to set up two large development / R & D facilities, in Cardiff, Wales and Saint John, N.B. — an acknowledgment that Appnovation's rapid growth trajectory will require the development of new open source solutions, like osCaddie, as well as working with established ones.

Their average five - year growth rate of 1,933 % is also higher than that of any other class in the past five years.

Perhaps because of this, employee growth has exploded over the past five years, increasing 40 %.

The strong growth in coffee category sales over the past five years has been fueled by demand for cold coffee beverages, now estimated to contribute over 20 % of coffee sales in the U.S. Starbucks currently serves over 35 % of its coffee cold and expects this proportion to grow to 50 % by 2021.

The problem, he warned, is that Canada's workforce is rapidly aging, while its companies are stuck in a low productivity gear, putting the country on track to generate only half of the annual growth in the next few decades that Canadians have come to expect over the past 50 years.

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

So far, no one is nipping at the company's heels, which explains why Bouchard can boast that his firm has posted an average compound annual growth rate of 41 % over the past six years, and has been profitable since the beginning.

Unfortunately, over the past 30 years or so, we've been seduced by Wall Street into believing we must risk our money in order to achieve growth of any significance.

While Facebook has been on a rocketship of fiscal growth, the userbase of Twitter has remained largely stagnant over the past couple of years.

In a recent commentary, he notes U.S. debt as a percentage of GDP has already seen exponential growth in the past two years, after climbing steadily since 2000.

Casual observers might be surprised to learn of the company's astonishing growth over the past three years.

Already the most diversified food franchisor in the country, MTY has quickened its pace of growth in the past three years, during which it almost doubled its number of outlets.

Twitter, which has spent the past couple of years struggling to boost user growth and ad revenue, recently listed the space through brokerage firm Cresa San Francisco.

With sales growth falling off a cliff in the past two years, they're becoming the most commoditized of hardware and the most responsible for the «bloodbath» losses mounting at Japanese manufacturers.

FireEye has clearly benefited from an age of headline - making hacks, with a compounded yearly sales growth rate of 98 % over the past six years.

In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years past.

So far rivals have not shown an ability to take advantage of Bloomberg's missteps; the company has continued to eke out additional market share even as its terminal sales have slowed to 1 % annual growth the past two years.

Structure: The size (revenue - based) and age of the company are strongly correlated to vitality loss, which may however be compensated by revitalization, as measured by sales growth in the past five years.

The huge growth in wealth generated by China's explosive progress also presents a risk that the country will go the way of Japan, which has suffered from a 40 - year recession in which the economy has failed to grow even 1 % over the past 20 years, Ramasamy tells boot camp participants.

«This is a slower pace of growth than over the past 10 years, although much faster than the 8 percent growth seen between 2007 and 2013,» the report said.

According to Panera, the growth in the MyPanera program has allowed the company to significantly increase the efficiency of its marketing, and perhaps not coincidentally, over the past year, the company's stock price has increased almost 30 percent.

To build the list of Canada's 100 Best Jobs, we used data from Statistics Canada, including jobs that had experienced employment growth over the past five years, had a minimum median salary of $ 60,000 and employed at least 5,000 people.

Our sense is that in light of the oil shock and weak economic growth recorded in Canada this past year, the SEPH is likely telling the more accurate story, meaning we could see employment as measured by the LFS slow significantly during the first half of 2016.»

To Foster's point, Affliction, whose other staffers also sport huge muscles and acres of scar tissue, has seen average annual growth of more than 300 percent in the past two years.

«Faster economic growth over most of the past year has tightened labor and product markets and helped to boost prices at a faster pace,» David Berson, chief economist at Nationwide, said in a note.

-- Chad Ciesel, COO of Natural Retreats, a national luxury vacation rental management company which in the past four years has made 11 acquisitions and achieved 350 - plus percent growth

Outlook: Growth in the number of financial managers has plateaued, remaining essentially unchanged over the past five years.

The slowing of China's growth and manufacturing sector during the past year has hit investor sentiment towards the world's second - largest economy, causing volatility in its capital flows, putting pressure on its yuan currency and forcing the central bank to intervene in currency markets.

Some think last year may have been a bottoming out, but with the amazing continued growth of smartphones and tablets, there's little doubt it's a commoditized business that is already well past its best days.