Sentences with word «quarters»

«I've talked in past quarters about the momentum we have built in our components business in Europe,» said Hamada.

Despite Hefner winning a nearly two - year battle with the U.S. Post Office to secure second - class mailing privileges for Playboy magazine, the publication was still reviled in many quarters of pre-sexual-revolution America, and cautious investors wanted nothing to do with the project.

Revenue, which dropped for the first time in four quarters, was down...

Debt is a millstone that weighs down more than three - quarters of Americans,» writes Abrams, whose new book, Minority Leader, is out today.

The strong operational and financial performance of KFC is particularly encouraging as it successfully lapped two strong first quarters in 2017 and 2016.

For comparison, one round - trip flight across the country flying coach uses up three - quarters of one person's annual allotment in a few hours (source):

We are seeing similar numbers in quarters for the rest of the year.

Working from home is quickly becoming an expectation: Nearly three - quarters of respondents to this survey say they expect to work remotely in the future.

The pace of expansion is at its slowest in three quarters.

Allergan: The pharmaceutical company's stock has been a «huge disappointment» the last few quarters, Cramer said.

«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.

According to its founder, who periodically makes announcements about his company's financial health even though he isn't required to do so, the company has been profitable in some quarters but prefers to reinvest in growth.

The company has now beaten earnings per share estimates 20 out of the past 21 quarters, according to CNBC's analysis of StreetAccount numbers.

The textbook definition of a recession is a downturn in economic activity, characterized by at least two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's gross domestic product (GDP).

More than three - quarters of Canadian merchants are already equipped with the technology for contact-less payments, compared to just 2 % in the United States.

Consensus estimates indicate several more quarters near that pace, but it will be difficult for companies to maintain that at this relatively late stage of the economic cycle.

I can't think of any other issue where the laws on the books are inconsistent with the wishes of three - quarters of British Columbians,» said Angus Reid vice-president Mario Canseco at the release of the numbers.

Nearly three quarters of the respondents believe that a hacker could «easily» steal personal details, such as bank account and social insurance numbers, from their employer's servers.

Berkshire Hathaway «s (brk - b) stock price touched $ 300,000 for the first time on Monday, reflecting investors» confidence in Warren Buffett «s conglomerate despite four straight quarters of lower operating profit.

For the first three quarters of 2017, BofA earned $ 15.7 billion.

«Against modest economic growth of 2 percent, we had one of the strongest quarters in our history,» said Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said.

«You are seeing a very strong earnings quarter on its own, but it is amplified by tax reform, and that is making it extraordinary,» Aurelio told me.

More impressively, services grew 31 % year - over-year (versus 16 % overall) and were the only Apple category to grow from the previous, holiday - juiced quarter.

RIM expects to ship 12 million smartphones at most this quarter, down from 14.1 million in the last one.

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.

At $ 383 million, EBITDA was up 7.9 % on the high first - quarter 2017 performance, with a significantly stronger euro particularly compared to the US dollar, which resulted in a $ 26 million negative currency effect (on translation only).

Despite all of the problems the PlayBook caused, RIM can't ditch it, even after the company took a US$ 485 - million pre-tax charge in the last quarter to write down the value of its inventory.

Instead, it plans to spend upwards of US$ 100 million per quarter to market its existing smartphones in the U.S.

As a result, net income — Group share rose sharply to $ 188 million from $ 137 million in first - quarter 2017.

Now one soft quarter does not a new trend make.

But Starbucks» traffic has since bounced back to strong levels; it just wasn't included in the quarter announced.

Starbucks» first - quarter results show that the coffee chain continues to struggle with soft traffic in the United States, quantified by a drop in the number of transactions.

Pfizer posted slightly higher sales and a 14 percent jump in profit in the first quarter, thanks to lower restructuring costs and a much - lower tax rate, but its revenue still missed Wall Street expectations.

Wall Street expects another huge jump in Amazon's revenue, but lower profits, compared with last year, when the company reports its first - quarter earnings on Thursday.

U.S. household debt rose to a level not seen in five years in the third quarter of 2013, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

For example, if the second quarter GDP is up 3, percent this means that the economy has grown by 3 percent over the first quarter.

Netbacks, profit after subtracting transport and other expenses, averaged C$ 16.80 per barrel of oil equivalent in the first quarter, compared with C$ 21.25 a year earlier.

CN Rail says it will purchase 350 lumber cars to meet growing demand for forest products despite lower segment revenues in the first quarter.

Apple's second - quarter earnings beat on Tuesday illustrated just how differently this company's stock behaves compared with the rest of the market, CNBC's Jim Cramer said.

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.

The OECD data shows that 72.4 per cent of Canadians aged 15 - 64, what is normally considered the working age, were employed in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to 73.7 per cent who had a job in the second quarter of 2008, for a differential of minus 1.3 percentage points.

Passport Capital sold 325,434 shares of the social media company, cutting its stake by more than one quarter.

American Airlines said it spent $ 412 million more on fuel in the recent first quarter than in the year - ago period.

Total debt for the quarter was $ 2.8 billion, up $ 89 million from December 31, 2017, including debt issued for acquired aircraft, partially offset by scheduled principal payments.

To be specific, Comcast's subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.

Yet, while surveys have found that most small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are aware of CRM's potential benefits, only about a quarter of them have adopted it.

Furthermore, Apple's overall fourth - quarter revenue of US$ 28.27 billion was more than $ 1 billion short of forecasts; it was the first time Apple missed analyst sales forecasts since 2008.

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.

Nanos Research, which conducts a weekly survey for Bloomberg, found that almost a quarter of respondents at the end of September said their personal financial situation had worsened over the past year, compared with about 20 per cent in early August.