Ford Credit saw earnings before taxes rise 33 percent
over the same quarter last year, to $ 641 million, but the company now expects full - year EBT to be flat or lower than last year.
Twitter now has 336 million monthly active users (about 15 % of the number of 2.1 billion users Facebook has), which is a jump of about 3 %
over the same quarter last year.
Separately, Yahoo Inc. disappointed investors, reporting a revenue increase of just 2 %
over the same quarter last year and raising questions about the financial outlook for the pioneering search engine operator.
That means Twitter's business declined roughly 8 percent
over the same quarter last year, but that's still better than Wall Street was expecting.
Dating site PerfectMatch.com has seen a 47 percent increase in members
over the same quarter last year.
But while Apple's iPad shipments grew 48.1 percent
over the same quarter last year, Apple's market share slipped for the second quarter in a row (down to 43.6 percent from 46.4 percent last quarter) as No. 2 vendor Samsung continued to nip at the Cupertino company's heels.
As of August 31, 2010: Revenue grew 31 %
over the same quarter last year to $ 4.62 BILLION.
Highlights: • Revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2012 grew 16 %
over the same quarter last year • International revenue1 in Q1 grew 67 % year over year • Gross margin in the quarter was approximately 44 %, slightly higher than expected due to product mix • RIM launched the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in North America and shipped approximately 500,000 units in the first quarter
Pandora's $ 80 million figure also represents 142 percent revenue growth
over the same quarter last year, when Pandora's estimated gross revenue was $ 35 million.
The HFS subsidiary reports a 38 percent sales gain
over the same quarter last year, selling 282 properties worth a total of nearly a half billion dollars.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s latest report says that the non-performing loan rate among institutions it regulates more than doubled to 2.04 % in the second quarter this year
over the same quarter last year.
Not exact matches
On Tuesday, Calgary - based Calfrac Well Services Ltd. reported it more than doubled its first -
quarter revenue compared with the
same period
last year and is reactivating equipment it parked
over the past three years.
Sales for the
last quarter of 2001 were up 35 %
over the
same period the previous year, surpassing a projected increase of 20 %, which Marchica considers outstanding considering that his sales reps were grounded for weeks after September 11.
Revenue for the first
quarter of 2013 was up 58 percent
over the
same period
last year.
According to research analysts at investment bank Versant Partners Inc., U.S. software expenditures in the third
quarter of 2011 grew by 6.6 %
over the
same quarter in the previous year, the highest growth rate in the
last four - and - a-half-years.
Its fourth
quarter results were mixed, with earnings dropping 57 %
over the
same time
last year.
Sales of small businesses with revenues of about $ 350,000 rose eight percent in the second
quarter of 2011
over the
same period
last year, but the news isn't quite as good as it sounds.
Its gross domestic product (GDP) for the second
quarter rose 6.9 percent
over the
same period
last year, beating expectations and putting the country on track to meet the International Monetary Fund's 2017 growth forecast of 6.5 percent.
Total fourth
quarter non-variable deferred annuity sales were
over $ 21.1 billion; up 4.2 % when compared to the previous
quarter and up 0.5 % when compared to the
same period
last year.
Mobile advertising represented just
over half of all Facebook's marketing dollars in the
last quarter of 2013, and for the
same period in 2014, analysts expect mobile ads to make up at least two - thirds of all ad revenue, making Facebook primarily a mobile ad company.
That would be the
same percent increase it saw in the first
quarter of
last year
over the first
quarter of 2014.
The U.S. added 1.3 million owner households
over the
last year and lost 286,000 renter households, the fourth consecutive
quarter in which the number of renter households declined from the
same quarter a year earlier.
The retailer reported better - than - expected earnings for the fourth
quarter of
last year, bringing in revenue of $ 8.7 billion, a 1.8 percent rise
over the year - earlier period, and positive
same - store sales.
Over the
same period, NOPAT (TTM) is up 10 % and quarterly earnings have exceeded expectations each of the
last four
quarters.
Moneris, which facilitates card payments for 220,000 Canadian merchants, said
last month that its purchases
over its systems increased by about 5 per cent in the first
quarter from the
same period a year ago, following the pattern that the company has observed for the past few years.
AWS operating margin was 17 percent in the first
quarter, down from 23 percent in the
same period
last year, owing to a 62 percent increase in operating expenses year
over year.
The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for
over a
quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the
same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election
last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»
Then he describes what can only be a Chinense, and probably is the original Bonney: «The other of the
same color, and glistering as much, but shaped like a large Button of a Cloak; both of one and the
same quality; both so violently strong, as when we break the skin, it sends out such a vapor into our Lungs, as we fall all a Coughing, which
lasts a
quarter of an hour after the fruit is removed; but as long as we are garbling [selecting] it, we never give
over.»
The current Tory government received the support of just
over a third of voters and less than a
quarter of the electorate, the
last Labour government much the
same.
This is a 3 times increase
over the
same period
last quarter of $ 311,000.
On the sales expectations of the company this fiscal, Suri said: «In the first
quarter, we sold
over 1,000 units registering a growth of 45 per cent
over the
same period
last year.
Though revenue at Lagardère publishing rose only 0.4 % in the first
quarter over the
same period
last year, sales at its U.S. subsidiary, Hachette Book Group, increased 5.4 %.
And today Kobo announced a 98 per cent hike in revenue for the first
quarter over the
same period
last year, while its user base grew by 2.5 - million registered users to reach a total of 14.5 million, with 15 per cent from the United States.
This marks a thoroughly impressive jump of 84 percent
over the
same period
last year and a 44 percent improvement
over the previous
quarter.
Simon & Schuster has reported its third
quarter earnings today and digital revenue is up 20 %
over the
same period
last year and represented approximately 21 % of total publishing revenues.
Indigo Books and Music has reported that they have generated $ 206 million dollars for the first
quarter of 2017, which is an increase of 6.8 %
over the
same period
last year.
During the 2nd
quarter the digital format increased by 9 %
over the
same period
last year and in Q3 2016 sales have increased another 10 %.
In the
last three months of 2017 Indigo reported they had their best financial
quarter ever and generated
over $ 433.3 million in sales, which is an 8.2 % increase
over the
same period in 2016.
For the year ended June 30, 2016, revenue at HC fell 1.2 %, to $ 1.65 billion and in the fourth
quarter the publisher generated $ 433 million, which is an increase of 11 %
over the
same period
last year.
Publishing Sales of comics to the direct market increased 12 percent in September
over the
same month
last year, lifting the third
quarter by 7 percent.
Over the
same period of time, Android tablets jumped from a 2.9 % share to a 30 % share
last quarter.
For those of you who have been in cryogenic sleep the
last few weeks, here is a brief recap: Barnes & Noble reported a fiscal fourth
quarter loss of $ 188.6 million,
over double what it was the
same quarter a year ago, a feat accomplished by only a few other greats like MySpace, Enron, and the MC Hammer farewell tour.
As I wrote
last year, the 500 largest U.S. companies repurchased about a
quarter of their equity's dollar value from 1998 to 2012, but the number of shares outstanding actually grew more than 7 %
over that
same period.
And as with earnings, higher quarterly sales than that of the
same quarter one year ago (
quarter over quarter) was required for each of the
last four
quarters.
In our screening process, higher quarterly earnings than that for the
same quarter one year ago (
quarter over quarter) was required for each of the
last four
quarters.
And it's certainly no overnight revelation for him either: This philosophy / perspective has obviously guided him in the
last couple of years (
same is true for me, in the
last year or so), looking back
over the evolution of his investing & stock picks (inc. $ FB in the latest
quarter!).
There were 12,469 homes listed for sale in Metro Vancouver during the first
quarter of 2018, a 0.8 % decrease from the 12,568 sales
over the
same period
last year.
He first took a 5.9 % stake in Lionsgate in August 2005, but he boosted his ownership to 14.1 % as of
last July and has rapidly increased the size of his position
over the past two months — at the
same time Icahn enhanced his own stake — after Lionsgate reported its disastrous third -
quarter earnings.
During the first
quarter, subprime card loans increased 3 %
over the
same period
last year, compared with 6 % growth in the prime segment, according to a recent research note from Autonomous Research.
It was almost
same as
last quarter, even after having made few sales
over last few months.