Sentences with phrase «line years in the past»

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The big - box chain has a yield in line with its frugal prices — a bargain - basement 1.2 % — but that dividend has been rising 24 % a year over the past 10 years.

That was in line with analysts» views that the economy, which has contracted for the past three quarters, will grow moderately this year on the back of a global economic recovery and the government's expansionary policies.

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

Those kinds of struggles had led 53 percent of those small businesses to apply for funding or credit lines over the past five years — and more than one in four said they had sought loans multiple times.

Amulet, which has been in testing for four years, released its first product line last year and has seen a surge of interest after every mass shooting in America — particularly over the past week.

Tesla's all - electric design allowed it to collect carbon emission credits worth $ 70 million in the past year, adding to its bottom line this quarter.

«During the past few years, we have reignited our innovation engine, rebuilt relationships with customers and partners, and gotten our cost structure in line with our revenue,» wrote Whitman.

Over the past eight years Vigorate has developed parallel service lines to address the steadily expanding opportunities in the world of digital marketing.

The company's soaring top - line growth in the past few years — its 2013 revenues were nearly $ 77 million — seems to confirm his calculus.

In the past two years, for example, FFD, which ranks No. 87 on the PROFIT 500 and had 2013 revenues of $ 3.5 million, has launched pet - themed baby gear, such as blankets, and a line of consumables, such as an anti-chapping balm that can be applied to a dog's paws.

Over 90 % of its sales are exports, and the firm's top line has grown by almost 470 % in the past five years.

He's also a fighting champion, putting his undefeated record on the line four times in the past two years, most notably in two absolutely brutal victories over Sergey Kovalev to become the unified light heavyweight champion of the world.

This much we do know: Research done during the past 10 years shows top quartile franchisors put an average of 40 and 45.6 percent to the bottom line in 2001 and 2002 respectively.

Its most recent foray outside of its traditional menu are Angus burgers, a premium line of hamburgers that were introduced across North America in the past two years.

Despite this, however, even ESPN has seen a decline in subscribers over the past year — and that has had a very tangible impact on Disney's bottom line, since about 45 % of its profit comes from broadcasting assets like ESPN.

Even though 9 % of sales now come from offerings developed in the past two years, up from 7 % in 2012, most are line extensions, such as Doritos Roulette, a bag of chips in which one of five is super-spicy.

In past years, it began investing heavily to branch out from its online retail roots, delving into Hollywood - style content production as well as developing a line of tablets, smartphones and set - top boxes to accelerate the sale of digital content.

When Colbert asked how she's been treated by Trump's supporters, Kelly described this past year as having been «a dark year in many ways,» though it has had «a lot of silver linings.»

While sales at full - line stores have been relatively flat in the U.S. over the past couple of years, they've surged at Rack outlets.

The rollercoaster ride in oil prices over the past three years may be old hat to investors familiar with the commodity's historical sensitivity to macro events (see chart below), but oil price volatility is by no means endemic and several factors are now lining up to suggest a calmer period for crude may lie ahead.

In the past few years, Siggi's has expanded its brand to include lines of drinkable yogurt as well as a squeezable yogurt tubes for kids.

After moving above resistance of a downtrend line that was in place for more than a year, $ KOL developed a tight base off the lows that has been in place for the past six months.

During the past fiscal year, WAL - MART STORES INC increased its bottom line by earning $ 4.99 versus $ 4.86 in the prior year.

During the past fiscal year, COMCAST CORP increased its bottom line by earning $ 3.20 versus $ 2.56 in the prior year.

Vice Media has rung up a series of impressive deals in the past year or so, lining up a $ 250 million investment from A&E Networks, securing another $ 250 million from Silicon Valley's Technology Crossover Ventures, signing a pact with HBO to take its news show to 35 episodes a year from 14, forging a Vice TV network in Canada with Rogers Communications and now realizing its dream of a U.S. TV network with a planned takeover of A&E Networks» History Channel spinoff H2.

During the past fiscal year, D R HORTON INC increased its bottom line by earning $ 1.51 versus $ 1.34 in the prior year.

Another reason is that the bare achievement of pulling people over the $ 1.25 - a-day line has been relatively easy in the past few years because so many people were just below it.

That said, if there was a silver lining, it was that the year - over-year sales decline after stripping out the positive impact from acquisitions was 45 %, which actually outperformed the 60 % decline in the U.S. rig count over the past year.

During the past fiscal year, NOVARTIS AG increased its bottom line by earning $ 4.32 versus $ 3.72 in the prior year.

So far nothing special from any of the companies I hold and now I started doubting too if we will get anything one time special dividend or one time buybacks or anything even dividend growth has been generally in - line with past years at least for the companies I hold so far.

The eurozone composite PMI compiled by Markit hit 53.9 in October, one of the strongest readings over the past four years and well above the dividing line between expansion and contraction.

The $ 1.8 trillion in liquid assets — the line item most people are referring to when they talk about «corporate cash» — accounted for 5.4 % of all assets held by nonfinancial corporations in the second quarter, down from 6 % in 2009 and pretty much flat for the past two years.

The ratio between Morgan Stanley's Cyclical index and its Consumer index has nearly flat - lined in the last few weeks and has been exhibiting a third of the volatility this year as in years past.

In fact, in the S&P 500 Cumulative Advance - Decline Line seen below — a calculation of the number of stocks advancing less the number in decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - time highIn fact, in the S&P 500 Cumulative Advance - Decline Line seen below — a calculation of the number of stocks advancing less the number in decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - time highin the S&P 500 Cumulative Advance - Decline Line seen below — a calculation of the number of stocks advancing less the number in decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - time highin decline — shows that, while cumulative breadth over the past few years has been flat (purple area), this year it has broken to all - time highs.

If the year - of - year accrual for 2017 - 18 mirrors those of the past two years, then the outcome for budgetary revenues should be in line with the FES forecast.

«While the momentum for sales activity began improving a few months ago, it may be losing steam after having just climbed back in line with an average of the past 10 years, said Gregory Klump, chief economist with the Ottawa - based Canadian Real Estate...

In line with this moderation in expectations, the NAB survey reports that firms expect near - term price rises for both retail and all final products to be smaller than the rises they expected over the past few yearIn line with this moderation in expectations, the NAB survey reports that firms expect near - term price rises for both retail and all final products to be smaller than the rises they expected over the past few yearin expectations, the NAB survey reports that firms expect near - term price rises for both retail and all final products to be smaller than the rises they expected over the past few years.

Aggregate equity raisings in the September quarter were in line with average issuance of the past few years, with net issuance totalling $ 4 billion.

If SNA management purchases shares in line with the averages of the past three years, it would repurchase $ 173 million next year.

In line with the pick - up in commodity demand, the Baltic Dry Index, which tracks freight prices for dry bulk goods, has soared to unprecedented levels over the past two years (Graph A2In line with the pick - up in commodity demand, the Baltic Dry Index, which tracks freight prices for dry bulk goods, has soared to unprecedented levels over the past two years (Graph A2in commodity demand, the Baltic Dry Index, which tracks freight prices for dry bulk goods, has soared to unprecedented levels over the past two years (Graph A2).

«With a smaller product line than brands like Audi, BMW and Mercedes - Benz, including having fewer CUVs, Cadillac has not taken part in the sales growth of the premium segment over the past seven years,» said IHS Markit senior analyst Stephanie Brinley.

Employment in the construction industry has continued to expand rapidly over the past year, in line with high levels of construction activity (Table 10).

«This dashed line shows that, in order to deliver a degree of future monetary stimulus that is consistent with its past behavior, the FOMC would have to reduce the funds rate to — 5 % by the end of this year — well below its lower bound of zero.

Homebrew laws have failed to materialize for the past five years, with religion and morality arguments narrowly beating out the estimated 5,000 underground homebrewers in the state who say their civil liberties are on the line.

The result is not chaos; the result, rather, is a steady leakage in our separation cylinder, but leakage in only one direction, so that the state wins more and more and the religionist wins less and less — precisely the trend line of the cases over the past 20 years.

Usually the way this has worked in the past is that someone has had to rise up from ashes and tell the story, or sneak behind the lines and tell the story, or wait 50 years and tell the story.

Liam Purcell from Church Action on Poverty says that in the past few years, people in front line services are observing not just relative poverty, but absolute poverty.

In the past year - and - a-half, it has introduced four ethnic - inspired menu lines to its program including a Vietnamese noodle shop or «Pho Bar,» as well as Mediterranean, Indian and Korean dishes.

Annie's Homegrown, acquired by General Mills for $ 820 million in 2014, has grown 40 percent over the past year, thanks to the introduction of new products including an organic popcorn line.

This study is the latest in a line of both field and laboratory - based research studies performed over the past several years demonstrating the cleanliness of single - use corrugated packaging.