Sentences with phrase «quarter or a quarter»

And I'm really curious: was that a cup and a quarter or a quarter of a cup of flour that you added?

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Executives spend too much time dealing with investors and analysts, trying to meet or exceed earnings expectations every quarter, and end up seeking short - term gains at the expense of the company.

In the second quarter, Foot Locker had earnings of $ 51 million, or 39 cents a share, down from $ 127 million, or 94 cents a share, a year earlier.

Easterbrook said that he wants to see another quarter or two of positive performance before management switches its mindset from turnaround mode into a longer term growth strategy.

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

Aetna's net income was $ 1.21 billion, or $ 3.67 per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with a loss of $ 381 million, or $ 1.11 per share, a year earlier that was related to costs for its failed deal to buy Humana.

The initial stock surge came as Alphabet said that first quarter revenue jumped 26 % to $ 31.15 billion and net profit rose 73 % to $ 9.4 billion, or $ 13.33 per share.

In the quarter that ended Dec. 31, 2017, CNBC reports, McDonald's net income fell 41 percent, to $ 698.7 million, or 87 cents per share, from $ 1.19 billion, or $ 1.44 per share the previous year.

Beyond this sense of optimism, seven out of 10 business owners said they fared the same or better than they did a year ago in the fourth quarter.

CEO Rob Peabody said Husky cut back heavy oil production by about 5,000 barrels per day in the first quarter and substituted mainly blended bitumen bought from other Alberta oilsands companies to send to its U.S. refineries in Ohio and Wisconsin or to the refining complex on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

In particular, the complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that (1) the trials for GED - 0301 suffered from fatal design defects, such that GED - 0301 had failed to demonstrate meaningful clinical efficacy; (2) the growth of Otezla sales had dramatically slowed during Celgene's third fiscal quarter of 2017; and (3) the clinical and nonclinical pharmacology data in Celgene's new drug application («NDA») for Ozanimod were insufficient to permit a complete review by the FDA, which resulted in the FDA issuing a refusal to file letter to Celgene regarding the NDA.

For $ 999 per year up front or $ 99 monthly, customers will use a kit sent by the company each quarter to take blood, urine, stool, and saliva samples, and then send them back for testing.

Continental posted net income of $ 233.9 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $ 469,000, or less than a penny per share, in the year - ago quarter, when oil prices plummeted - and the company's production costs were higher.

Net income rose to C $ 734 million, or 83 Canadian cents per share, in the first quarter from C $ 643 million, or 74 Canadian cents per share, for the same...

«CEM is a new theme that has emerged and is being talked about in the large - enterprise segment over the last four or five quarters,» Gerald reports.

For the fiscal third quarter ended March 31, Tapestry Inc. earned $ 140.3 million, or 48 cents per share.

Social media is free to use for most businesses and is a gateway into promoting the type of services or products you have to offer at any time without waiting for a print ad to run or a new marketing quarter.

So, in a market where analyst sentiment going into the quarter can seem way too grim — or, conversely, way too optimistic — Cramer asked investors to remain cautious and do their own homework.

The following are some of the hot stocks and sectors in which hedge fund managers either took new positions or exited existing stakes in the first quarter.

Sales rose 7.9 percent to $ 3.45 billion in the first quarter from a year earlier, slightly above the average analyst estimate of $ 3.34 billion, with aluminum prices accounting for $ 109 million or about 40 percent of the increase.

The airline's net loss widened to C $ 170 million, or 62 Canadian cents per share, in the quarter, from C $ 13 million, or 5 Canadian cents per share, a year earlier.

The retailer's shares tanked 19 % to $ 28.37 — their lowest level since 2010 — after it reported that same - store sales, or revenue of stores open at least 14 months, rose a mere 0.1 % in the second quarter, well below its own forecasts for a rise of 2 % to 3 %, and short of Wall Street projections for a 1.4 % gain.

Usually, GDP is a comparison to the previous quarter or year.

Sprint reported a profit of $ 69 million, or 2 cents per share, compared with a loss of $ 283 million, or 7 cents per share, in the year - ago quarter.

From 1994 through the third quarter of 2014, companies with 1,000 employees or more added nearly 34 million workers.

The Milwaukee, Wisconsin - based company said its net income fell to $ 174.8 million, or $ 1.03 per share, in the first quarter ended April 1, from $ 186.4 million, or $ 1.05 per share, a year earlier.

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.»

While hiring was down by 0.1 percent in March, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10, or 87 percent of small businesses, expect the first quarter to be the same or better than a year ago.

Having a reliable running belt beats trying to tuck your items into a sports bra, waistband, or those tiny pockets that are often built into running shorts that usually look like they couldn't hold a single quarter — let alone hold it securely.

The remaining quarter aren't sure one way or another.

Net income rose to $ 1.49 billion, or $ 1.41 per share, in the first quarter ended March 31 from $ 1.08 billion, or $ 1 per share, a year earlier.

In general, however, a recession ends when the economy starts to grow for a period of time, usually two or more business quarters.

The BEA often revises estimates — either up or down — as it receives better data throughout the next quarter.

Net income rose to $ 1.49 billion, or $ 1.41 per share, in the latest quarter ended March 31 from $ 1.08 billion, or $ 1 per share, a year earlier.

Look back at that first graph: about a quarter of millennials listed the professional or skilled trades as their goal.

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.

A quarter of founders said that a job candidate's political affiliation would make a difference in whether or not they were offered a job.

While United's fourth - quarter profitsurpassed Wall Street's expectations, investors were focused on its plan to grow capacity, or the number of seats it flies, by 4 percent to 6 percent each year through 2020.

You get a $ 1 discount if you make more than 30 trades or maintain an average daily balance of at least $ 100,000 in the prior calendar quarter.

A petition calling upon First Lady Melania Trump to either move to the White House or foot the bill for living in Trump Tower out of her own pocket has reached almost a quarter - of - a-million signatures.

More than three - quarters of companies in the commercial leasing space have five or fewer employees.

Core income in the current quarter was $ 678 million, or $ 2.46 per diluted share, compared to $ 614 million, or $ 2.16 per diluted share, in the prior year quarter.

Spotify reported first - quarter revenue of 1.139 billion euros ($ 1.36 billion), up 26 percent from a year earlier, or 37 percent excluding currency effects.

The company's net income rose to $ 147.4 million, or 78 cents per share, in the third quarter, from $ 125.1 million, or 66 cents, a year earlier.

«If you can help them hit their end - of - quarter or year - end milestones, they have more incentive to give you a break on the price,» says Marien.

However, significant changes or any implementation of a vastly different U.S. strategy are likely a couple of quarters away.

NEW YORK, May 2, 2018 / PRNewswire / — Pareteum Corporation (NYSE American: TEUM), («Pareteum» or the «Company»), the rapidly growing Cloud Communications Platform company, today announced that it will report its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018 after market close on Monday, May 7, 2018.

Early stage tech startups aren't public companies so you don't need to obsess with «having your books formally closed» or scheduling the board meeting only after the end of the quarter.

In the third quarter of 2015, 23 companies were crowned «unicorns,» achieving a valuation of $ 1 billion or more, according to a study from researchers CB Insights.

Most of the economic data, official federal government or otherwise, the Fed uses to assess the performance of the economy are available only with a lag, typically a lag of a month or a quarter.