Not exact matches
Comcast may
have added subscribers overall, but its NBCUniversal unit reported some
weakness in subscriber numbers, saying growth in
revenue was «partially offset by a decline in subscribers at our cable networks.»
Weakness in the company's
revenue seems to
have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
Arrow Group
has posted a Eur1.9 m pre-tax loss on
revenue down 18 % to Eur340m for 2009, compared to a pre-tax profit of Eur4.6 m in the previous year, as the Irish meat processor was impacted by reduced consumer spending and the
weakness of sterling.
A very partial list includes the PAC holding the BBC to account for its staggering severance payments; exposing the billions of pounds squandered by the NHS IT programme; exposing the very poor and costly management of nuclear waste; examining the considerable
weaknesses of the Charity Commission; taking Amazon, Google and Starbucks to task for their reluctance to pay Corporation Tax on their UK profits; and probing more deeply than ever before into the affairs of HM
Revenue and Customs, exposing serious mistakes by the organisation that HMRC
had previously kept hidden.
I also think that the overseas profit numbers (a significant chunk of their
revenues)
have taken a beating because of the higher dollar, and not because of systemic
weakness in the underlying business.
Gradual sterling
weakness has been a long - term tailwind, while the Brexit dump is clearly a key driver of the FY - 2017 / 2018
revenue step - up.
Pason Systems
has good reason to maintain its high dividend yield despite continued
weakness in oil drilling and its 50 % drop in
revenue for the quarter.
More fool me... even in my original write - up, I identified Newmark's fatal
weakness — its Electronic division, which in the last decade
has proved incapable of generating
revenue growth (despite reporting numerous new contract wins),
has consumed ridiculous amounts of balance sheet capital, and
has allowed a 23 % adjusted EBIT margin to steadily erode & turn into losses.
That approach to the market works for many projects, but it
has a
weakness: lots of smaller, community - based projects can't get funded if they
have to wait for year - by - year offset
revenues.
For example, all estimates of government
revenue and outgo depend on some sort of economic model, which superficially
have the same
weaknesses as climate models: validation issues, adjustable parameters, some key processes (convection, precipitation, human behavior) can't be reliably modeled.
This approach to the market works for many projects, but it
has a
weakness: lots of smaller, community - based projects can't get funded if they
have to wait for year - by - year offset
revenues.