Sentences with phrase «lower profit growth»

In this case, high dividend growth is the result of lower profit growth.

Not exact matches

The foray into video comes as growth in wireless is slowing: On that February earnings day, even as it boasted record profits, T - Mobile startled investors with low forecasts for new - subscriber acquisition.

The result would mean significantly less spending and borrowing and this, in turn, would lead to lower GDP growth, corporate profit margins and employee wages.

Citing MDC's debt and the fact it has held the company to relatively low, if any overall profit despite leaps and bounds in revenue growth, Willott casts doubt on MDC's ability to turn industry awards and its agencies» creative prowess into profitability.

Sales growth and operating profit growth reported in Danish kroner are now expected to be 6 and 9 percentage points lower than in local currencies, respectively, compared with a previous forecast of 7 and 10 percentage points lower.

Citi, like other big banks, has been cutting costs to boost profit as low interest rates and new regulations crimp revenue growth.

Does a competitor stress a selective, low - volume, high - margin business, or do they emphasize sales growth at any cost, taking every job that comes along, whether or not it fits any coherent scheme or offers an attractive profit?

The chain, which reported better - than - expected quarterly profit last week, recently announced that achieving the low - end of its U.S. comparable sales growth target of 2 to 3 percent in 2014 would be a challenge.

The partnership is the latest step in Goldman's effort to grow its investment management business, as new regulations and lower trading volume have pressured profits in other businesses the bank has traditionally relied on for growth.

«Our «rational exuberance» rests on a combination of above - trend US and global economic growth, low albeit slowly rising interest rates, and profit growth aided by corporate tax reform likely to be adopted by early next year,» Kostin said in a report for clients.

Domtar (UFS) attributes profit growth to lower costs for planned maintenance, better productivity in pulp and paper and favorable exchange rates, among other things.

Over in Asia, Nikkei was closed for Holiday as Goldman Cuts Japan's Growth Outlook this AM - Shanghai saw more profit - taking despite strong trade data - India bounced from the recent selling there, While Aussie closed off 60bp despite a bounce in the miners - dragged lower by continued selling in Tech and Industrials globally.

While first - quarter corporate profits are expected to have notched their best growth in seven years, largely due to lower taxes, investors have focused on cost warnings from companies.

As Business Insider's Sam Ro wrote: «Golub believes 2015, as in 2014, will be highlighted by healthy US GDP growth, lackluster global growth with China and Japan getting worse, elevated profit margins, low volatility, and most multiple expansion, that is higher price / earnings (P / E) multiples.

Oracle forecast lower - than - expected quarterly profit as growth in its cloud - based business fails to make up for weakness in its traditional software offerings.

Software companies usually sell at larger p / e ratios because they have much higher growth rates and earn higher returns on equity, while a textile mill, subject to dismal profit margins and low growth prospects, might trade at a much smaller multiple.

Finally, it doesn't matter if the low P / E ratio is related to the company or the industry, because a low valuation simply means the market does not believe in sustainable profit growth.

My personal growth process, combined with a strategic growth plan, have taken many, many entrepreneurs from very low (if any) profits well into the millions — and I want you to be one of them!

Eventually, economic fundamentals will reassert themselves: high corporate profits, positive industrial growth, lower unemployment and improved consumer sentiment in the United States; lower inflation and a transition to easier, expansionary money policies in Brazil, Australia, India and most significant of all, China, the world's second - largest economy.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

Record low unemployment rates are pushing up salaries, which could catalyze consumer spending, a welcome boost for corporate profits, equities, and economic growth.

This under appreciated industrials company is benefiting from internal profitability initiatives and external growth drivers, while low profit expectations embedded in the stock price make for an attractive risk / reward scenario.

A strong competitive position and recent roll - out of new products make the profit growth expectations embedded in this stock look too low.

The market is setting the profit growth bar quite low for this stock.

Lower productivity gains hamper income growth and pressure business profit margins.

To quote page 20, â $ œafter a full adjustment takes place (at least seven years), â $ employment will permanently be 100,000 higher than otherwise and revenue will permanently be $ 3 billion lower than otherwise (using Finance Canadaâ $ ™ s numbers without profit growth).

Our investment thesis highlighted consistent after - tax profit (NOPAT) growth, improving return on invested capital (ROIC), a focused effort to expand into higher margin segments, and a low PEBV ratio that implied immediate profit decline.

PBO is forecasting much stronger growth in personal income and therefore higher personal income tax revenues offset to some extent by slower growth in corporate profits and thereafter lower corporate income tax revenues.

Our investment thesis highlighted a low PEBV ratio that implied pessimistic expectations baked into the stock price despite the firm's multi-year history of profit growth.

These companies are also undervalued compared to peers, and our DCF model reveals low expectations for future profit growth baked into the current stock prices.

The job growth is fake, there's been no wage growth since 1999, inflation numbers are false, government debt is too high, corporate profits are too low, corporate profits are unsustainably high, companies aren't reinvesting their profits, companies are buying back too much stock, the Federal Reserve is propping up the market, the Federal Reserve is keeping rates artificially low, and so on.

50/50 at best, I suspect, and I'd wager that odds are at least 90 % that its profit margins and growth rate will be materially lower five years from now,» Tilson wrote at the time.

From July 2016 to the end of second - quarter 2017, more than 80 percent of the companies listed in the S&P 500 declared dividends, as stable oil prices, low wage growth and a weaker US currency have all added to the overall corporate profits.

Such low expectations ignore the long - term profit growth shown above as well as the potential of Verizon's video offerings.

The company's nine consecutive years of dividend growth looks set to continue for many years to come, with the low payout ratio of 47.8 % allowing for a great equilibrium between retaining profit (for company growth / expansion) and returning profit to shareholders.

In turn, declining revenue and lower prices mean downward pressure on profit margins, earnings growth and stock prices.

It will be difficult for Aetna to fail to beat expectations as low as these when considering the company's historical profit growth rate of 12 % compounded annually since 2000.

This profit growth is low based on the company's track record and investors have every reason to expect even greater upside from IQNT.

Weak industrial profits in China and the International Monetary potentially lowering its growth forecast.

Shell Oil has more excess profit at its disposal to fund future dividend growth than AT&T does (although AT&T is a non-cyclical stock that can rely upon steady cash flow from which to pay shareholders each year, whereas Royal Dutch Shell is an oil company that experiences low profits for 2 - 3 out of every ten due to the cyclical nature of oil and natural gas prices).

Indeed, profit growth for companies in the MSCI All Country World ex-US Index is expected to far outpace profit growth in the S&P 500 Index over the next 12 months.6 This is coming off of a low base.

Not for much longer: it's shifting output to Vietnam to secure even lower wages and defend profit margins as growth in sales of high - end handsets slows.

Management has made a priority of selling non-core assets to return capital to shareholders, but the company's prospects for sustainable long - term profit growth in a low - rate environment look increasingly bleak.

Passing along those savings, in addition to currently accepting a very low profit margin in exchange for very rapid growth, allows customers to confidently shop at Amazon knowing they are getting a better price than most retailers offer.

Even without deflation, very low inflation can be a sign of weak demand that weighs on wages, corporate profits and growth.

It's running on high corporate profits, continued growth and low interest rates that make alternatives unattractive.

Natural by - products of slower potential growth are not only weaker corporate profits and dividends, but also a lower average rate of return on investments.

Instead of using the money to build up the beer and spirits business, which was low growth but spat out big profits, he doubled the bet on wine.

Mr O'Connell and CCA chief executive Alison Watkins are confident that the $ 10 million launch of Coke Life on April 7 will restore volume and sales growth to the entire Coca - Cola brand, improving CCA's fortunes after a horror year last in 2014, when sales fell 2 per cent and net profit by 25 per cent to the lowest level for eight years.

The success of Yellow Tail - built upon more than 8 million cases a year sold into North America, together with a low Australian dollar - helped drive 20 years of profit growth for the Casella family.