Sentences with phrase «in the first quarter of»

Recurring operating income rose in line with the increase in EBITDA, to $ 277 million from $ 244 million in the first quarter of 2017.

Operating income amounted to $ 265 million compared to $ 229 million in the first quarter of 2017.

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

Worldwide demand for gold totaled 973.5 tons in the first quarter of the year, according to the Council's latest report, down 7 percent year - on - year.

According to company documents, Zynga contributed about 15 percent of Facebook's revenue in the first quarter of 2012, compared to 19 percent in the same quarter of 2011.

Arkema reported a free cash flow of - $ 25 million in the first quarter of 2018, up against the first quarter of 2017 -LRB-- $ 44 million), thanks to higher EBITDA and lower taxes.

Barrick is in a stronger position now to focus on growth opportunities following two credit upgrades from rating agencies in the first quarter of the year.

Western Australian employers have downgraded expectations for increasing staff numbers in the first quarter of 2013.

The market declined for the first time ever in the first quarter of 2016, according to IDC.

That rally ended in the first quarter of 2018 amid a trade dispute between the world's two largest economies, the United States and China.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

Delivery contributed to 16 % of Company sales in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 3 percentage points year over year.

Same - restaurant sales at KFC rose 2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, the slowest growth rate in four quarters.

The drop isn't devastating, but it is significant: while fitness tracker sales slumped 7 % in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same timeframe one year ago, smartwatches boomed by 25 %, the vast majority of which were Apple Watches.

Catastrophe losses in the first quarter of 2018 primarily resulted from winter storms in the eastern United States, a wind and hail storm in the southern United States and mudslides in California.

U.S. market volatility picked up dramatically in the first quarter of the year.

The chart starts in the first quarter of 2000, when U.S. exports of goods and services equaled 10.5 % of gross domestic product.

Same - restaurant sales at KFC rose 2 percent in the first quarter of 2018, missing analysts» target with the slowest growth rate in four quarters.

China's smartphone shipments experienced a record fall in the first quarter of 2018, but demand is expected to pick up soon.

The company has announced that it will buy 5 % of its outstanding shares for $ 2 billion in the first quarter of this year.

That will increase to 19 percent by 2020 after anlotinib is launched in the first quarter of 2018, said Credit Suisse.

The projects» construction will begin in the first quarter of 2018, with operations slated to commence in the fourth quarter.

As you can see, it did not hit those targets once in the three quarters since — even booking a slight decline in the first quarter of 2013.

Apple's iOS operating system — mostly iPads — accounted for only 17 % of institutional educational purchases in the first quarter of 2016.

S. dollar put spread - Price charts indicate downside risks to cable in the first quarter of next year.

In the first quarter of 1994 Share made $ 90,000 on revenues of roughly $ 1 million — and divided up some $ 28,000 in bonuses.

With an expected launch in the first quarter of this year, you may have to rain check the gift.

«We do think that in the first quarter of next year, this could potentially be a stumbling block, because there's very high unemployment, the Five Star Movement is neck - and - neck with the democratic party so there's nothing to suggest that the political risk in Italy has abated,» Nossek said.

UBS said Friday its net income rose 79 percent in the first quarter of this year.

Sales in central London have tanked 41 percent in the first quarter of this year to just 3406 sales compared with the previous year, data from real estate investment adviser London Central Portfolio showed Monday.

In the first quarter of 2012, nine companies graduated to TSX from TSXV, up from six companies in the first quarter of 2011.

In the first quarter of last year, the average Netflix subscriber watched 161 hours of programming, Barclays says.

In the U.K., data showed an increase of 2.1 percent in wages in the first quarter of the year, but real wage growth turned negative.

The total combined number of new U.S. distributors and preferred members is just slightly below what it was last year: In the first quarter of 2016, Herbalife disclosed 83,276 new North American recruits, of which about 80,200 were in the U.S..

«In the first quarter of 2017, our financial and operational performance gives us a lot of confidence about the foundation we are building.

That's more than double the number of companies that went public in the first quarter of 2013, and the highest number since the same period in 2000, Renaissance reports.

The headwinds faced in the first quarter of 2018 likely contributed to March's Tankan results, says Kathy Matsui of Goldman Sachs.

Capital expenditures increased to $ 711 million in the first quarter of 2018, compared with $ 436 million in the first quarter of 2017.

The aluminum - cased N1, which runs on Google's Android Lollipop operating software but features Nokia's new Z Launcher intelligent home screen interface, is due to be in stores in China in the first quarter of next year for an estimated price of $ 249 before taxes, with sales to other markets to follow.

Deals in the secondary market, as represented by Midland's 35 key housing estates, hit a low of 41 per week, 40 per cent fewer than in the first quarter of 2003 during the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

JL Warren Capital LLC said shipments will drop to 25 million units in the first quarter of 2018 from 30 million units in the fourth quarter, citing reduced orders at some Apple suppliers.

That marks a 4.4 per cent drop from roughly $ 10.46 billion in the first quarter of 2017.

In the first quarter of 2018, unallocated CSS costs were $ 11 million, consistent with the year - earlier period.

There were 30 such deals in the quarter, compared to 12 in the prior quarter, and six in the first quarter of 2013.

When the company nudged up prices above food - away - from - home inflation in the first quarter of 2014 (a rare move for McDonald's), the average check grew, but the number of customers dropped.

The move is expected to improve the company's earnings per share, it said, and will close in the first quarter of 2018.

The pre-engineering and long lead procurement for the BP Cassia C project was awarded and commenced in the first quarter of 2018, with implementation of our innovative Digital Twin technology platform expected to occur later in the project.

Oil production of 3.8 MMBbls in the first quarter of 2018 represents 43 percent of total production and was an increase of 51 percent compared to first quarter of 2017 volumes and two percent from the fourth quarter of 2017.

Merger and acquisition activity in the oil and gas sector dropped to less than $ 1 billion in the first quarter of this year — the lowest since 1994, according to figures recently published in The Globe and Mail.

It has few peers in terms of product design; its operational prowess is unmatched (by one estimate, in the first quarter of fiscal 2015, it produced the equivalent weight of a Boeing 787 in iPhone 6s — every 24 hours).