Sentences with phrase «percent a year prior»

The December 2013 SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard ® survey found their level of optimism rose to 70 percent, up from 55 percent the year prior.

After the bill's passage, personal income increased by about 7.5 percent a year, compared to about 5.2 percent a year prior to passage.

BA - defined craft brands represented 21 percent of total beer industry dollars in 2015, up from 19.3 percent the year prior, it added.

The hotel occupancy rate (rooms sold as a percentage of rooms available) in the county increased 3.5 percent to 39.8 percent in December from 38.5 percent a year prior, according to STR, a Tennessee — based hotel market data and analytics company.

According to the survey, 73 percent of contracts settled on time last month — up from 63 percent a year prior.

Just 50 percent of U.S. adults now get news regularly from television, down from 57 percent a year prior in early 2016.

The homeownership rate clung to 63.6 percent in the first quarter of 2017, virtually unchanged from 63.7 percent the quarter prior and 63.5 percent the year prior, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's recent Quarterly Housing Vacancies and Homeownership report.

As of May, the foreclosure inventory represented 2.6 percent of all homes with a mortgage — down from 3.5 percent a year prior.

In 2009, retail tenants at downtown shopping centers and strip malls in metropolitan areas across the country faced a 10.6 percent vacancy rate, up substantially from 8.9 percent the year prior.

Not exact matches

In 2015, U.S. consumers spent $ 143 million on refrigerated ready - to - drink coffees and teas — nearly 300 percent more than two years prior, according to the Specialty Food Association, a nonprofit trade group.

Judged by monetary growth, they were too little too late, raising monetary growth from 1.5 percent a year in the prior three and a half years to only 3.25 percent in the next two and a half.

NFIB found that a net 23 percent of respondents raised wages in the three months prior to September, a 5 percentage point increase compared with the same period a year earlier.

P&G backed its sales forecast for the year but raised its estimate for core earnings per share growth for fiscal 2018 to a range of 5 percent to 8 percent from a prior range of 5 percent to 7 percent.

Total net sales for the quarter were $ 17.4 billion, a 3 percent increase over the year prior.

Buffett typically makes his donations in July, reducing the number of shares by 5 percent from the prior year.

Core earnings per share, which excludes certain items such as the temporary impact of the tax law, were $ 1.19, an increase of 10 percent versus the prior year.

First - quarter net revenues increased 11.7 percent, when compared to the prior year period (up 3.3 percent on an organic basis).

The entire U.S. venture industry invested $ 84 billion last year, a 22 percent increase from the prior year and the most for any year since the dot - com bubble of the early 2000s, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

FBI background checks, which give an indication of the state of U.S. gun sales, rose 1.1 percent in May from the prior year, according to adjusted data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

In 2012, the company reported a net loss of $ 80 million, a decrease of nearly 40 percent from the prior year.

Net income in the quarter was $ 1.3 billion, down 6 percent versus the prior year.

First quarter sales of $ 15.2 billion were up 10 percent over the prior year, including 6 points of organic sales growth and 3 points of foreign exchange.

A year prior respondents on average said 15 percent of their sales would come from discounts, however in the most recent survey that number jumped to 26 percent.

GAAP EPS of $ 1.62 included 15 cents of net restructuring charges and other significant items and was down 6 percent versus the prior year, reflecting the absence of a one - time gain booked in Q1 2017.

Prior week's reading was revised to 218,000 from 215,000, erasing what was originally reported as a 45 - year low Unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits was unchanged at 1.3 percent Colorado and Maine had estimated claims last week, according to the Labor Department

Sales rose 0.8 percent to $ 10.6 billion in the 12 months ended November 2012 compared to the same period in the prior year, according to the latest information from NPD.

Instead, her costs have gone up nearly 30 percent in the past year alone, and she now pays $ 10,000 for a high - deductible plan that covers less of her health care needs than in prior years, Olsen says.

But research conducted by Dealnews reveals that last year Black Friday had only five percent more deals than Cyber Monday did, a drop of five percent from the prior year.

Last year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office received 455,017 trademark applications, an increase of 4.9 percent over the prior year.

Sales of Made to Matter products were expected to hit $ 1 billion for 2015, the company said, up 30 percent from the prior year.

At Barnes & Noble, 2017 holiday sales fell more than 6 percent to $ 953 million, compared with the year prior.

You can avoid the slaps on the wrist if you had at least as much income tax withheld this year as last (unless you make more than $ 150,000, in which case you have to hold back at least 110 percent of the prior year's withholding).

«If you just look at the year prior to the states adopting withholding, on average, income tax revenues were 15 percent of all tax revenues,» Bagchi explained.

The average premium for employer - sponsored family coverage among firms with fewer than 200 employees increased 5 percent to $ 16,625 compared with the prior year, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey.

On Cyber Monday, mobile sales accounted for 22 percent of online sales, an increase of more than 27 percent compared to the prior year, according to IBM Digital Analytics.

Likewise, overstocks contributed $ 471.9 billion in lost revenues, up 30 percent from three years prior.

For the previous quarter, the company said it had diluted earnings per share of 76 cents, an increase of about 114 percent from the prior - year period.

Audits recovered about 30 percent ($ 30 billion) less in revenue in the past five years than in the prior five years.

That dwarfs the historically healthy increase of 10 percent a year for the two and a half years prior to passage.

Even with the 0.3 percent average hourly earnings gain, consensus is somewhat tainted by the downward revision to the prior month from 0.2 percent to 0.1 percent, leaving the year - over-year gain at 2.5 percent.

Cowen and Company analyst Andrew Charles said he now expects McDonald's U.S. comparable sales to rise 5 percent this year, up from a prior forecast of 4 percent, driven by his «increased confidence» in the launch of the new $ 1 $ 2 $ 3 Dollar Menu.

«With just a few more days left until Friday's deadline, we think enrollment is tracking towards a single - digit percent decline (if renewal rate holds consistent with prior years and year - over-year growth in new sign - ups seen to date is sustained), but it all comes down to an uncertain final surge,» Newshel wrote in a research note.

Non-highly compensated employees, therefore, are those who made less than $ 120,000 the prior year — or anyone who owns 5 percent or more of the company.

Total indexed annuity sales for 2017 were $ 53.9 billion, a decline of 7.1 percent from the year prior, according to Wink's Sales & Market Report.

As a point of comparison, Facebook generated $ 11.8 billion in ad sales in the first quarter, up 50 percent from the year prior.

In 2017, total annuity sales were $ 203.5 billion, a decline of 8 percent from prior year, according to LIMRA Secure...

A sharp increase of 6 percent from the year prior, a 20 percent mortgage down payment on a home of that value would mean saving nearly $ 42,000, a price tag unattainable for most first - time home buyers.

Although this large North American industrial distributor might be «down from prior guidance of 300 basis points, the company stated that the reduced guidance implies fiscal year 2016 revenue growth of between 3 percent and 6 percent,» said Nicholas Wesley Yee, a certified public accountant and director of research at Gradient Analytics.

According to Genworth Financial's Cost of Care Survey for 2017, the annual median cost of services increased by an average of 4.5 percent in 2017 from the prior year, the second - highest year - over-year increase since the study began in 2004 and nearly three times the overall rate of inflation.

Sales rose 4 percent in September in Houston from the prior year, after plummeting nearly 24 percent in August, according to the National Association of Realtors.