... The 40 first -
quarter points represented a season high.
Not exact matches
The fourth
quarter reading also
represents a 17 -
point decrease from the first
quarter of 2015.
In tandem with that reading, 9 percent of repsondents said they planned to decrease head counts at their companies in the next 12 months, which
represents a decrease of two percentage
points, compared to the third
quarter.
That
represents a five - percentage -
point increase from the previous
quarter.
The company once again
pointed to China as an area of intense growth, with sales there nearly doubling from year - ago levels and
representing about half of total revenue for the
quarter.
The attending brewers
represent nearly a
quarter of American craft breweries (latest count: 3,040), meaning that a careful tasting can
point which way the USA's hoppy winds are blowing.
«Our temperature estimates and the NCAR simulations were within one -
quarter of one degree Fahrenheit, on average, for the last 11,000 years,» says Shuman, as he
pointed to a graph that included a black line for his group's climate research temperature and a gray line that
represents the computer simulations.
The figure
represents a drop of 13.22 percentage
points from the previous
quarter and 7.17 percentage
points from the same period in 2015.
That's more than a
quarter of a
point less than the average cost of a conventional mortgage and
represents a particularly good deal for borrowers with dinged credit who normally would have to pay more than average rates without government help.
Operating margin reached 0.1 per cent for the
quarter,
representing a slight decrease of 0.7 percentage
points as compared to the second
quarter 2015.
The latter
represents a 13 -
point jump from the first
quarter.
Among current renters who want to buy their first home in the near future, nearly half (48 %) now believe they can afford a down payment; this
represents a gradual growth in the past four
quarters and a 14 percent
point confidence surge form the Spring 2016 level of 34 %
Over the past couple years, in both 2015 and 2016, the first
quarter represented the high
point for occupancy in each year, as first
quarter data typically shows an uptick in occupancy due to seasonal factors, such as the flu as admissions to skilled nursing properties can increase during that time of year.
The report also revealed that revenue from Medicaid now
represents just under half of all revenue at skilled nursing properties (49.3 percent), which is up 70 basis
points from the prior year (fourth
quarter, 2016).
National vacancy is now down 90 basis
points from its historical peak during the third
quarter of 2011,
representing an improvement of less than 10 basis
points per
quarter.
This
represented an increase of 20 basis
points from the prior
quarter, and was 20 basis
points shy of its cyclical peak of 90.3 % that was reached in the fourth
quarter of 2014.