Sentences with phrase «not by the quarter»

Every month — not by the quarter like a traditional deal.

Not exact matches

The results should not have been entirely surprising: NPD Group has said that its data showed that sales at athletic and sporting goods retailers were down by a low - double digit percentage in the quarter.

The September 1 Gross Domestic Product release will be the one that will let us know whether or not we are in a recession, at least by the semi-official definition of «a period of at least two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product for Canada, as reported by Statistics Canada under the Statistics Act.»

«Really the success of that product isn't how many people buy it, in our mind, but how many people don't buy it and choose another product,» he said, after the company reported better - than - expected profits for a quarter plagued by deadly hurricanes.

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.

By contrast, 40 percent of those who would like to export said they don't have goods or services that are exportable; a slightly smaller percentage said they didn't know much about exporting, and about a quarter said they would worry too much about getting paid.

Feehely says the unemployment rate has gone up by almost 1 % in Alberta this quarter while delinquencies on mortgages have not risen yet.

Despite having attested in the past that he couldn't live without the magazine, the 83 - year - old Hefner may be persuaded otherwise by the company's long streak of unsuccessful quarters.

But Sino - Forest disclosed in its management discussion and analysis for both the first and second quarters of 2010 that the revenue was generated by selling standing timber, meaning the company did not cut down and transport any of these trees.

The idea was simple, effective, and brilliant, but it would have died in Blakely's Atlanta kitchen had she not followed it up by phoning, then visiting, every hosiery mill in North Carolina, until her conviction overwhelmed the skepticism she met in all quarters and she found a manufacturing partner.

This one, sent by «Barack Obama,» has the semi-stalker-ish subject line «If I don't call you» and says Obama will contact donors this week to thank them for contributing to his campaign before the end of the third quarter.

It's done that by blowing past analysts» revenue estimates — not to mention its own forecasts — for each of the nine quarters it's reported since then.

A handful of quarters and dimes may not sound impressive at first, but from a big picture perspective, Apple will be sending its investors $ 13.2 billion annually — nearly 30 % of its earnings over the last four quarters, and nearly enough to match Twitter's total value by market cap: $ 14.1 billion.

The latter company is currently not profitable and its stock dropped by 15 percent in 2016's first quarter.

For the hardworking employees who haven't taken off some time by a quarter or third of the way through the year, they'll get a week chosen for them when they are simply not allowed to show up at the office.

Though «Daily Show» host Trevor Noah's ratings ticked up in the first quarter of the year and «The President Show» resonated with audiences, if not with some critics, network representatives still remember fondly Stewart's and Colbert's domination of the 11 - t0 - midnight time slot among key demographics pined over by advertisers.

The world's largest oil company by market value had cut even cut its capital budget for the quarter by 38 %, but it wasn't enough.

Three - quarters of millennials surveyed by CBRE said they are living at home because wages have not kept up with property prices.

And for the first time since the final quarter of 2011, China's debt - to - GDP ratio didn't increase and stayed unchanged at 255.9 percent in the second quarter this year, latest data by the Bank for International Settlements showed.

And more importantly, by not resolving the current debacle to the player and owners» satisfaction, NFL leadership has hurt Papa John's shareholders,» Schnatter had said during the company's third - quarter earnings call on Nov. 1.

Facebook may reach one - quarter of the world's population and have the revenues of a small country, but it's still, after all, a private - sector enterprise, not constrained by the First Amendment in any decisions it makes about speech limits.

Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward - looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the effects of any unexpected difficulty in closing our financial books for the quarter and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K, quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.

The company also trumpets that the service had 155 million tweets daily by the end of the first quarter, a jump of 41 % over the prior quarter, but many tweets — news headlines, for example — are often churned out by computers, not humans visiting Twitter.com.

In the fourth quarter, Salesforce's deferred revenue — what the software giant earns in advance for goods or services that have not yet been delivered — grew by double digits year over year, making Benioff that much more bullish on the $ 20 billion prospect.

Further, we do not expect the bond market to sell off and interest rates to go shooting up when the Fed raises the interest rate from zero by an eighth or a quarter percent.

But that quarter's numbers were boosted by a patent licensing deal that netted the company more than $ 1 billion, according to earnings reports, so it isn't an apples - to - apples comparison.

Then there's gaming, which is now comfortably Sony's biggest business by revenue, even if this quarter wasn't the best.

CNN noted that its growth doesn't look as impressive as its competitors in part because the network had a number of special presidential debates and town - hall events in the first quarter of last year that boosted its reach, so the rise since then is smaller by comparison.

Hardly a day goes by when American unions are not attacked from some quarter: Last week, the Supreme Court weakens unions representing home care workers, one of the lowest paid and fastest growing occupations.

Chevron cut operating and administrative expenses by 7 percent during the quarter, but it was not enough to fully offset the price drop.

The specific NDP claim that 100,000 workers will directly see a raise is not supportable by the evidence, with the true number likely being somewhere between one - quarter and one - half that amount.

«We don't have to please Wall Street by increasing sales every quarter,» he says confidently.

Your goal wasn't to bump up your net worth by 5 percent this quarter.

And they didn't get there by hoping to increase profits 5 percent during the next quarter.

The CEO also confirmed that Tesla doesn't plan to manufacture the Model Y at its Fremont factory and that it will instead announce a new factory location «no later than in the fourth quarter», which mean that it should be confirmed by the end of the year.

The network still has almost 92 million subscribers, and simple math tells you they could recover the lost three - quarters of a billion dollars by charging a subscriber fee of something like $ 7.09, rather than $ 6.41, per month — a large increase, but, with live sports still king, not out of the realm of possibility.

The report on Monday from the Commerce Department was the latest indication that the rebound from the first quarter's abrupt slowdown would not be as strong as experienced during the same period last year when output was chilled by cold weather.

Consumption growth was robust in the third quarter, supported by the new Canada Child Benefit, while the effects of federal infrastructure spending are not yet evident in the GDP data.

According to an analysis released in December by the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy, half of American college freshmen «seriously underestimate» the amount of student - loan debt they have, and about a quarter of students with federal loans do not even know they have such loans.

Not a quarter goes by that we don't hear another corporation announcing an asset writedown related to a previous acquisition.

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

Not only have you missed your 2 % inflation target every quarter since 2012q2, but as the figure shows (using revised data on yr / yr PCE core inflation) you're missing it on the downside by a greater margin over time.

The company's growth does not appear to have been stalled by privacy concerns, although the revelations about Cambridge Analytica and a #DeleteFacebook campaign that followed from some irate users did not occur until late in the quarter, and could be reflected in future earnings.

Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors and head of its Global Allocation fund, said he was not put off by the fact that U.S. home ownership rates hit a 20 - year low in the fourth quarter.

Most of the recessions identified by our procedures do consist of two or more quarters of declining real GDP, but not all of them.

Canada's first - quarter GDP report was not just «atrocious,» as predicted by Stephen Poloz. It was downright negative: total real GDP shrank at an annualized rate of 0.6 % (fastest pace of decline since the 2008 - 09 recession).

By 2020, half of full - time employees are expected to be working remotely, and three - quarters of all employees are expected to not be working in traditional offices.

Turning illiquid private - company stock into cash by selling shares to the public required engaging a top investment bank, which typically wouldn't take a company public until it had had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

I'm not surprised by this record quarter.

Why the stock market is unimpressed by the best first - quarter results in 24 years Rather than rally on the back of upbeat results, the main equity benchmarks have sulked lowerThe stock market isn't impressed!