Sentences with phrase «half year period»

Best Buy Co. said comparable store sales dipped 0.8 per cent for the nine weeks ended Jan. 4, but that was better than the 1.7 per cent decline in the prior - year period.

Lauzon's Middlefield Income Plus Class Series A fund won a Lipper Award last year for the best - performing Canadian equity balanced fund over a 10 - year period.

Mobile payment accounted for approximately 56 % of Company sales in the first quarter of 2018, as compared to 31 % in the prior year period.

In fact, a recent Nielson study found that 70 percent of global consumers trust online reviews, up 15 percent within a four - year period.

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

REBIT margin, which corresponds to recurring operating income as a percentage of sales, rose to 12.8 % in first - quarter 2018 compared to 11.3 % in the corresponding prior - year period.

«And since more and more Chinese are taking their long holiday breaks outside of China, I'll be watching out for how busy our Merlion will be over this Chinese New Year period,» he said.

Online delivery contributed 16 % to Company sales, up from 13 % in the prior year period.

During that five - year period, the records show, United Tissue distributed 17,956 body parts to clients.

Over the same three year period, the company ¹ s interest bill totaled a staggering $ 646 million, almost twice its earnings from operations.

Syncrude shrank from 4,700 employees to 3,250 over a five - year period, Newell says, without any layoffs.

Methane is nasty stuff, with 25 times the heat - trapping potential of carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period.

In 2011, when Justin Woolverton began experimenting with a dessert of frozen Greek yogurt blended with fruit, he wasn't trying to start a business — much less one that would draw in revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year period.

This was one of the best rates in the entire 10 year period:

As tech publication GeekWire notes, the data center move help saved Dropbox about $ 75 million over a two - year period.

Their newest paper uses historical data from multiple countries to show that an increase in the ratio of household debt to gross domestic product over a three - to - four - year period predicts a decline in economic growth.

In one deal she put together, for example, a client swapped $ 250,000 worth of excess retail inventory for $ 100,000 worth of radio advertising over a four - year period.

Paul is a recipient of the annual Lawrence R. Klein award for the most accurate economic forecast over a four - year period among the approximately 50 participants in the

Over a 25 year period, nearly $ 240,000 will be lost to adviser fees.

According to data compiled by Bloomberg, Tim's was the third - worst performing stock among 16 global restaurant companies over a one - year period.

During the 81 - year period looked at by the study, the Top 10 companies have never, as a group, outperformed the S&P 500 in subsequent years.

People who felt like their lives had meaning had a 15 % lower risk of death in a 14 year period, compared to those who said they felt aimless.

As I've been mentoring and training some young adults lately at a college, suddenly I've seen conflicts up close and personal, a reminder of the time I worked in the corporate world for about a ten year period.

The researchers, led by PhD candidate Ericka G. Rascon - Ramirez, studied the experiences of more than 15,000 British girls aged 13 and 14 over a 10 - year period.

The Inc. 5000 ranks companies by overall revenue growth over a three - year period.

I used data from Yale economist Robert Shiller to show what would happen if someone invested $ 500 a month, every month, in the S&P 500 throughout every possible 20 - year period from 1871 to 2013.

First - quarter net revenues increased 11.7 percent, when compared to the prior year period (up 3.3 percent on an organic basis).

The company is on track to sell 200 units over a 10 - year period, not including potential sales to BRIC countries.

That plan lasted only a year and a half, which, within a 22 - year period, is not a long experiment.

If you look at the amortization of that cost over a 10 - year period, it doesn't seem so bad.

Expenses for sales and marketing have more than doubled to $ 37 million over the same two - year period, as have costs for operations and support, and investment in technology, which GrubHub reported cost $ 34 million and $ 15 million respectively.

The 20 - year period from 1977 to 1997, as this encompasses a variety of macro-economic conditions: five years of stagflation and two back - to - back recessions (1977 - 1982), strong growth from 1983 to 1990, a mild recession in 1991, and growth from 1993 to 1997.

Represents the percentage change compared to prior year period in miles driven per vehicle per workday on US lease power units.

We also saw not only a resurgence of consulting but private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds, which had been sleepy for a two - year period, began to push very hard.»

The years on the chart represent the last year of an eight year period, so the figure «1999» represents the period 1991 - 1999.

In other words, over a 27 - year period the assumptions will have been about $ 43 trillion off, if Ernie is right.

Average revenue per user for the wireless arm was $ 63.74 in fourth quarter, up from $ 63.34 in the same prior - year period.

Represents percentage change compared to prior year period in average global rental rate per day on power units using constant currency.

Instead, it sits in a PTO file and is examined only if the inventor files a regular patent application on the same invention within a one - year period and the applicant wishes to claim the earlier filing date.

Of course, it is not enough to add 125,000 jobs in a single year, Ontario must average that over an eight year period to meet Mr. Hudak's goal.

One of the concessions for winning state regulatory approval to convert Fidelis to a for - profit unit includes a $ 340 million contribution to New York state, payable over a five - year period, which will be treated as increased administrative costs.

The supervisor of Dianella - based building company Frayson has been fined $ 15,000 for failing in his duties as a manager and supervisor on work carried out at 20 Perth properties over a 10 - year period.

«It grew from 19 stores and about $ 600 million in sales to $ 6 billion in sales and 179 stores over a 15 - year period.

The study compared the compound annual growth rate of a Family Index of 23 companies — in which at least 30 % of voting control belonged to a family with multi-generational involvement in the ownership or management — against 412 widely held firms over a 15 - year period (1998 to 2012).

Screening isn't completely effective in preventing genetic diseases in children, though a 2008 report showed that the state of Massachusetts was able to reduce the number of babies born with CF by 50 % over four years, compared to the previous four - year period.

In some cases, the profit could be significant given the virtual currency soared from $ 13 to over $ 1,100 during the three year period (2013 - 2015) for which the agency is seeking information.

It produces a total of $ 337 billion in lower deficits in the coming ten - year window, and would not significantly increase shortfalls «in any of the four consecutive ten - year periods beginning in 2027,» according to the CBO.

The company has grown 10 times its size in just the past two years, largely due to demand and engagement from its loyal customers, who Salzberg said pay between $ 900 - $ 1,000 on average over a three - year period.

Representation of white women in leadership roles improved by 17 % over the nine year period, but for black, latino, and Asian men and women, percentages declined across the board, according to research by the nonprofit Ascend Foundation, an organization that advocates for Asians in business.

According to McGonigal, the government's conservative estimate is that over a roughly four - year period McKesson had failed to report tens of thousands of suspicious orders in those districts.