Sentences with phrase «number of positive quarters»

Dispersion of returns also indicated the strategy proved to have a small number of extremely negative quarters and a high number of positive quarters.

Not exact matches

A number of factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.

The stock's strong performance so far in 2016 can be attributed in part to delivering positive earnings surprises in a number of recent quarters.

If the final number of companies issuing positive guidance for the quarter is 21, it will mark the lowest number recorded since FactSet began tracking guidance in Q1 2006.

It is interesting to note there has been a significant decline in the number of companies issuing positive guidance in Q3 2012 relative to recent quarters.

These numbers are also well above the five - year averages for the number of companies issuing negative EPS guidance (66) and positive EPS guidance (40) for a quarter.

The Information Technology -LRB--8) and Consumer Discretionary -LRB--5) have also seen the largest decreases in the number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance for the quarter relative to their five - year averages.

Although some workers have bonded with their colleagues over political discussions this election season, with almost a quarter reporting they feel more connected to coworkers (24 percent) and have a more positive view of them (23 percent), a small but significant number of employees reported a more negative view of coworkers, and said they feel more isolated from them, perceive more workplace hostility and that team cohesiveness has suffered (13 percent each).

The Cruise Lines International Association's (CLIA's) Industry Outlook Report for the first quarter of 2016 was hugely positive, predicting continued growth in the number of passengers embarking on cruises, while also suggesting that cruise lines will invest more than $ 25 billion (# 17.4 billion) into the building of 55 new ships between now and 2020.

By consistently reinforcing positive behaviors and making rewards meaningful to students, Carver Elementary saw the average number of office referrals drop by 86 percent from the first quarter to the fourth quarter of the 2015 - 16 school year.

150,000 PlayBooks were shipped to retailers in the third quarter, but RIM has seen very positive feedback to the deep discounts it has been pushing and claims that the number of sales to consumers during that period is higher still.

Research In Motion reported strong financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2011, again refuting some predictions of its imminent demise at the hands of Apple and Google - but along with those positive numbers came rumblings that the PlayBook, its tablet PC due in early 2011, will be released later than some pundits and analysts expected.

Effective rent growth is still positive for the quarter, but falls somewhere in the middle to lower half of national rankings (Washington, at 0.5 percent, is at number 25 out of 82; suburban Virginia, at 0.4 percent, is at number 31.

After a number of positive growth quarters, the first three months of this year saw slight vacancy increases in several large downtowns, such as Chicago.

The White House put a positive spin on the number, noting that it marked the 10th consecutive quarter of GDP growth, lifting the nation's economy above where it stood in the final three months of 2007, the start of what's now called the Great Recession.

However, with the delivery of three new office buildings totaling 1.6 million sq. ft. of vacant space in the first quarter — Phipps Tower and 3630 Peachtree in Buckhead, and 1075 Peachtree in Midtown — overall vacancy rates continued to rise despite the positive absorption numbers.

«In 2012, 1.7 million homeowners who were previously underwater achieved positive equity and about half that number achieved positive equity in the first quarter of 2013.