Sentences with phrase «quarters if this year»

Asus has also announced the sale of close to a million tablet PCs during the first three quarters if this year and expressed confidence of reaching the overall shipment target of 1.5 to 2 million tablet PC for 2011.

Not exact matches

«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.

If you contribute $ 1,000 a month and wait a year to start, your loss will be more than a quarter of a million dollars!

Fourth - quarter sales numbers in the new year will reveal if all the effort will pay off.

If Pizza Hut was struggling, so was NPC: in August, the franchisee reported that same - store sales at its Pizza Hut units fell almost 6 percent in the second quarter compared to a nearly 4 percent drop a year ago.

A new employee needs to be part of the long - term corporate strategy - and if you can visualize where you want to be in five years, or even by next quarter, it will be significantly more natural to see how a new employee fits into that matrix.

If the year's current run rate holds steady in the last quarter, global fintech investment dollars and deal activity could hit records.

Here's a simple test: If someone sat down with you and asked you a series of questions about your company's revenue, expenses, and profits (or losses) for the previous month, quarter, and year, could you answer within a few minutes, using your accounting software?

If managers wait till the end of the quarter or year to salute positive results, employees may only barely remember the context.

If Goldman workers earned the same amount quarter after quarter (which they usually don't), it would equal a pay of $ 386,000 for the year — much higher than the $ 338,000 actually paid to on average to Goldman staff in 2016.

«If you look at seasonality of [economic] growth, the first quarter has been weak for seven or eight straight years,» says Rick Rieder of BlackRock.

Though «Daily Show» host Trevor Noah's ratings ticked up in the first quarter of the year and «The President Show» resonated with audiences, if not with some critics, network representatives still remember fondly Stewart's and Colbert's domination of the 11 - t0 - midnight time slot among key demographics pined over by advertisers.

You know if your sales are up versus the prior period, be it the prior day, week, month, quarter or year.

While a lot of retail companies have suffered this year — in part because of bad weather in the first quarter — if you look carefully, there are still some good buys on the market.

According to CNN, you'll face a tough market if you're looking to sell your business; the number of sold small businesses fell 36 % from last year in the first quarter of 2009, and the price sellers paid dropped sharply.

«Why, I could make a quarter of a million dollars a year in this field or in Hollywood if I wanted to,» Graham said.

«If numbers remain what they are today we will not improve our results in the second quarter versus the one of last year,» chief financial officer Denis Petrin told reporters after the company's annual meeting.

He adds that even if technology is having a long - term negative impact on GDP growth, the change from quarter to quarter or even year to year is probably negligible.

State and federal unemployment taxes, but only if (1) they pay wages to employees totaling $ 1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they employed at least one person during any day of the week during any 20 weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether or not the weeks were consecutive.

If all 50 states were to regulate marijuana like Colorado, the industry would add over a quarter million jobs to the U.S. economy in the next three years, an upcoming report finds.

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

iPhone sales concerns: Apple will report its quarterly earnings today and analysts are looking to see if the iPhone X lived up to the hype.The company is expected to report fiscal second - quarter iPhone unit sales grew just over 2 percent from a year earlier, reports Bloomberg.

Earn up to $ 300 per year in bonus cash back if you spend the whole $ 2,500 per quarter just at gas stations.

This chart also shows how much you could have saved if you paid various amounts of student loan interest in 2016 and earned $ 40,456 annually (the median earnings for 25 to 34 - year - olds in the third quarter of 2017 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

If you recall, ESPN recognized $ 176 million in previously deferred revenue during Q3 last year and there was no deferred revenue recognized in the third quarter this year.

Borrowing just a quarter of a person's balance during these early income years makes it all the more difficult to stay on track with retirement savings if they reduce or stop saving.

If it all goes to his wife it would mean Schmidt, the 136th richest man in the world, would be giving away a quarter of his $ 6.2 billion fortune to Wendy, to whom he has been married for 13 years.

To put that into perspective, consider that, if JPMorgan Chase were to acquire the Columbus, Georgia - based Synovus, JPMorgan would only grow by 1.1 %, or roughly the same rate of growth it saw from the second quarter to the third quarter of this year.

These numbers might not spell all - out trouble if it weren't for Amazon's performance during the same period: The company's electronics and general merchandise business — basically the core of its retail operation — grew 35 percent in North America in the quarter, marking the segment's highest growth rate in several years.

If you back out currency impacts, year - over-year drug revenue growth drops to 15.1 % in the quarter, and if you remove the sales associated with Actelion's drugs, then J&J's biopharma sales growth falls to a much tamer 4.3 If you back out currency impacts, year - over-year drug revenue growth drops to 15.1 % in the quarter, and if you remove the sales associated with Actelion's drugs, then J&J's biopharma sales growth falls to a much tamer 4.3 if you remove the sales associated with Actelion's drugs, then J&J's biopharma sales growth falls to a much tamer 4.3 %.

If we look back at the dip in oil prices in the fourth quarter of last year, general sentiment among investors was that consumers would use their savings at the pump to spend more at the store.

The chemical producer, formed by the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont last year, clocked up net sales of $ 21.5 billion for the quarter, which the company said compared to what would have been net sales of $ 20.5 billion if DowDuPont had been one company in the same quarter a year ago.

For example, if you work for nine years and take one year off, you can still reach your required 40 quarters of coverage by earnings just four more quarters at any time.

So if you have not worked much over the years and are trying to earn Social Security credits, try to make a minimum of $ 1,300 in income each quarter until you have your full 10 years in.

If the index reports a decline in fourth - quarter earnings, it will be the first time the index has reported three consecutive quarters of year - over-year declines since the first quarter of 2009 to the third quarter of 2009.

If this is the final revenue decline for the quarter, it will be the first time the S&P 500 has seen four consecutive quarters of year - over-year revenue declines since the fourth quarter of 2008 through the third quarter of 2009.

If you assume that about 50 % of the annual sales occur in the fourth quarter, that would place cumulative Amazon Echo sales at approximately 24 million today and climb to 35 million by year end.

What if I said that you could earn an extra one quarter percent return on your portfolio every year by doing a simple task?

So from this point forward, we should go — if we had $ 135 as our assumption for recycling, take that down to $ 115 for 2Q through the remainder of the year, which is about $ 0.08 of incremental headwind and you feel that given the power of the first quarter, and it was a great quarter in garbage, that you can make that up?

[2] If the May 2008 forecasts turn out to be right, then the current episode would entail nine quarters with year - ended inflation above 3 per cent.

But emotionally and behaviorally, you know, we're totally fine if the dollar - cost averaging over the next amount of months, or even quarters, even years, if that keeps you from hindsight bias and doing something, you know, stupid,» because a lot of people become very emotionally wedded.

If that estimate proves correct as companies file their quarterly disclosures, it'll be the biggest quarter for buybacks since 2007 and a 40 % jump from the level a year ago.

If the Fed adheres to their schedule of quantitative tightening, I calculate M2 will grow by the end of the first quarter — it's currently running around four and a half percent — and the year over year growth rate will be down to less than 3 percent.

According to Hedgeye Risk Management, if these trends hold up, the fourth quarter of 2016 will be the first time in two years that companies will have generated positive earnings for two straight quarters.

«Fundamentally, it makes a lot of sense that the fourth quarter of this year looks particularly bad because refining demand drops and driving season drops off... if you get through the fourth quarter and you still have this oversupply, then maybe it's the second quarter of next year when you have this drop off in demand again.»

Not only can earnings grow in the coming years, but that multiple can expand if Big Blue can maintain the revenue growth it expects to report for the fourth quarter.

The only way Investing works to change your life is if you live to 300 years old like Warren Buffett grinding out the earnings potential of GE every quarter to gain a few percentage points in your portfolio.

 Almost a quarter of that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs).

In other words, if Constellation hadn't invested in the company a year ago, depletions would have been up 12.1 percent during the quarter.

We're marketing to the people who live here year - round, who never see the French Quarter except maybe twice a year if they want to go to dinner someplace.