Sentences with phrase «said operating profitability»
However Hermès, which is due to report full results on March 21, said operating profitability should be close to the level recorded over the first half of last year, when it hit a record 34 percent.
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Saj Karsan, who operates the popular value investing site BarelKarsan.com, says that Palm's lack of profitability was its demise, as the company had to constantly finance and dilute its stock to fund R&D.
At the meeting in late 2016, executives said Quidsi would also generate significant free cash flow in 2017, which is notable because Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has long said that he cares more about free cash flow than he does profit margins or profitability metrics such as operating income and net income.
It also said it would cut operating expenses by more than $ 200 million and return to EBITDA profitability in 2017.
«Looking forward to 2017, we expect to return to profitability, driven by the strength of our new products, double digit revenue growth and annual operating expenses of approximately $ 650 million,» he said.
In an update ahead of its interim results in August, the general insurer said that «significantly higher than expected claims activity» during the first five months of the year is expected to cause that division to report a first half combined operating ratio, a key measure of profitability, of around 110 per cent.
Bond yields would then be fair relative to equity yields, assuming that the current high operating profitability continues, which is not guaranteed, though I think it will persist long enough to embarrass those who say it must mean - revert imminently.
John Hawke, Calgary's McLeod Law chief operating officer, says the focus in the past has been to examine profitability on a firm - wide basis, but not at the partner level.
In our Mobility Solutions business, our objective is to achieve operating profitability in the short term,» said Blackberry CEO John Chen in a statement.
In a statement released on Dec. 5, company CEO Philip Clarke said it doesn't seem feasible that Tesco's Fresh & Easy division will be able to achieve profitability within an acceptable timeframe, and so the chain, which operates 199 locations in three states on the West Coast, will likely be leaving U.S. shores.