Sentences with phrase «laggards in»

Laggards in October included the usual suspect The Gap -LRB--6 %), who announced recently they would close roughly a quarter of their U.S. stores to focus on overseas growth, J.C. Penney -LRB--2.6 %) which continues to lose market share to Macy's (+2.2 %) and Kohl's (+3.9 %), Wet Seal -LRB--9.7 %) and Bon - Ton -LRB--10.2 %).

NREI: Which sectors of the commercial / multifamily real estate markets do you think will be the big leaders or laggards in 2016?

Now is the time to think about adopting encryption — its time has come — even for law firms, almost always the laggards in adopting security technology.

Nintendo are in danger of becoming the laggards in the space where they were once the innovators, and it's tough to see how a Vitality Sensor can overcome this.

They also keep touting the same old laggards in the press decade after decade.

Aside from GE, it has been one of the few laggards in my portfolio during this continuing bull market run.

Leapfrogging is a form of momentum investing where investors jump from one stock to another, routinely switching out of the laggards in their portfolio and into funds with better performance.

The most notable laggards in 2013 were the iPad mini Retina display and the Microsoft Surface 2, both with just 63 % of the standard gamut.

That the traditional teacher compensation system, focused on rewarding teachers based on seniority and degree attainment, is ineffective in spurring student achievement fails to reward good - to - great teachers and keeps laggards in classrooms to continue educational malpractice.

European companies are laggards in spending on research and development — but a new report offers a few upward trends.

Painful times to be a Gooner, but as you point out H, you and I and a few other old laggards in the bar have seen a hell of a lot worse.

But he's angry that Rosemount has been one of the laggards in the top 15 and says it needs to do better after being an underperformer for many years.

I have bought both names in May and will continue to watch these laggards in June.

Large companies, with more than 1,000 locations, were the laggards in this category, with only 33 percent integrating kiosks into their stores, the Restaurant Readiness Index found.

Of course, it seems unfortunate that our schools are always among the last to learn and adopt anything new and there are still loads of laggards in the land of learning.

Companies considered laggards in embedding and exploiting organizational purpose, on the other hand, report lower levels of customer satisfaction and employee engagement.

New York has been a laggard in expanding the definition of parenthood, as a majority of states already recognize non-biological, non-adoptive parents.

The laggard in this converging battleground is Snap, perhaps due to the fact that it is newer and smaller than the other giants.

The Nasdaq Composite, which had been quite the laggard in December, closed out the year with a strong 2.0 % advance, and is now back above the 50 and 200 - day moving averages.

Because of its heavy weighting in Apple ($ AAPL), which has been undergoing the healthy price correction we predicted back on November 5 of last year, the Nasdaq 100 Index (large - cap sibling of the Nasdaq Composite) has been a complete laggard in 2013.

Meanwhile, Whole Foods has been seen as a laggard in the online shift.

«They're all trying to get toward... a better blend between a physical and digital experience,» he said, «and analysts are looking at J.C. Penney as a laggard in the innovation of experience.»

Then there is Citi, the laggard in the large bank peer group and for a reason.

Ethereum is the most important laggard in the segment, as the coin couldn't find footing since the reports regarding the Google ad - ban, with the price of the token breaching the February low today.

This data is from 2010/11, but later school district level numbers — also from Statistics Canada — show that BC has continued to be a laggard in education spending compared to other Canadian provinces.13

Poland could halve its demand for coal by 2030 with a shift to renewable energies that would end its image as a laggard in European Union efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Friday.

I know he's a bit of a laggard in this area, but how do you tell someone they don't have very good guest manners?

Microsoft's Xbox One has been a laggard in the video games consoles market.

LG, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker but a laggard in the booming smartphone market, introduced the Optimus One smartphone in Korea this week before launching global sales through about 120 carriers with a sales target of 10 million units.

I think the risk adjusted returns of an slight laggard in equities, beats the return give up required to receive an exact inflation hedge (say real return bonds as the market for them exists now).

ITG Investment Technology Group has been a laggard in a sector that is now spiraling lower — not a good combination.

As a laggard in technology, I've personally found that once you get into Apple products you pretty much stay hooked.

The years - long delay in bringing three former Nortel Networks executives to trial for fraud has reinforced Canada's well - earned reputation as a laggard in markets enforcement, particularly when compared with the United States, its critics say.

Redmond has been a laggard in locking down Skype as a truly end - to - end encrypted comms system — end - to - end meaning only the people talking to each other can decrypt the chatter, leaving Microsoft and whoever may be eavesdropping on the connections in the dark.

Samsung, once a laggard in the smartphone market, overtook Apple last year to become the world's largest smartphone maker.

A longtime laggard in Florida, Tampa Bay has established itself as a late recovery market where real gross metro product has averaged 2.4 % over the last five years.

Not exact matches

If you look at the company and say «I want us to be a great place to be,» than you need to eliminate the slackers, the laggards and the people who are just putting in his or her time.

Whether it's online presence, Internet services or research and development, Canada is in many ways a veritable technological laggard compared to peer countries.

Fully 59 % of those in the leader category in 2012 had a formally accountable executive for innovation; only 28 % of those in the laggards did.

«Canada has been a laggard, and it has surprised people because of our proximity to the largest data market in the world,» says Bill St. Arnaud, an Ottawa - based IT consultant.

The recent market sell - off is putting a dent in many large - cap Dow components, which are now sitting in bear market territory, but here's why two of these laggards may be worth a buy.

In this environment, all eyes will be on Ford, a laggard for Wall Street — but with a stock price that looks cheap relative to its peers.

The economic slowdown that still grips much of the globe is keeping a damper on many industries — the moguls heavily invested in commodities or energy were more likely to be laggards this year — but telecom, real estate and consumer staples performed well and pushed many members» net worth higher.

Rapid uptake in North America and India is also expected while sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and North East Eurasia are identified as laggards.

Shares in T - Mobile and Sprint (s) tumbled Monday as investors betting on industry consolidation — and higher cell - phone prices — bid down the two U.S. laggards.

Extra cash in the hands of retailers means capital to widen the gap with the laggards through investments in technology, pricing, and delivery.

In other words, P&G's strategy of shrinking by dumping laggards and promoting its most profitable brands is failing to generate more cash on every dollar of assets.

Tech laggards team up to regain lost ground in creating infrastructure for the «internet of things.»

A few of the directors in our study were clearly laggards, even going so far as to argue that innovation was irrelevant in their very mature industries.

I'm in the Laggard Quintile of the «longshot odds» Bell Curve; never had your balls / brains, and my adventures always seemed to end with me flat on my back, staring up at the lights.