Sentences with phrase «same quarter last year»

Factors to Looks for in High Growth Stocks • Major price increase in earnings over same quarter last year (not necessarily sales — 20 - 25 % minimum • Look for small caps buying their own stock back • 95 % of growth stocks are from small -LSB-...]

Factors to Looks for in High Growth Stocks • Major price increase in earnings over same quarter last year (not necessarily sales — 20 - 25 % minimum • Look for small caps buying their own stock back • 95 % of growth stocks are from small to medium caps • P / E does not matter in winning stocks • Low corporate debt is better, but not necessary • Stocks relative price strength > 70 - 80 (compared to S&P 500), that are just beginning to move off their base structures.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

Cyran, the Reuters columnist, pointed to quarterly mergers and acquisition (M&A) statistics from PricewaterhouseCoopers, showing that Canadian M&A volumes retreated 21 % compared to the same quarter last year.

The company sold 52.2 million phonesin the March quarter — higher than the 51 million sold during the same quarter last year, but analysts were expecting 53 million.

But it still recorded only 1.59 million new users, compared with estimates of 1.62 million — and sharply lower than the 1.9 million it signed up in the same quarter last year.

The company opened 341 net new stores, a significant jump from the 231 stores it opened in the same quarter last year.

That was down two - thirds when compared to the same quarter last year.

BP benefited from UK fiscal regime changes, resulting an a $ 164 million tax credit in the third quarter, compared with a $ 1.16 billion tax bill in the same quarter last year.

Revenue totalled $ 1.25 billion, up from $ 1 billion in the same quarter last year.

Morgan Stanley beat expectations in the same quarter last year, reporting diluted earnings per share of $ 0.43 ($ 0.32 expected) on revenue of $ 7.86 billion ($ 7.63 billion expected).

In the same quarter last year, Goldman Sachs beat expectations, if you exclude a big one - off settlement.

In the same quarter last year, Goldman missed expectations, citing «renewed concerns about global economic growth.»

In the same quarter last year, Citi reported earnings per share of $ 1.31 ($ 1.28 expected) on revenue of $ 18.5 billion ($ 18.6 billion expected).

Either would represent double - digit growth from the same quarter last year.

The first story, from Bloomberg, notes that hedge funds and mutual funds invested 42 % less in startups in Q1 compared to the same quarter last year.

In fact, the firm's North American restaurant margin increased 3.2 % to 21.9 % in the quarter, up from 18.2 % in the same quarter last year.

Canadian corporations earned $ 75.4 billion in operating profits in the first quarter, down 6.0 % from the previous quarter, and 9.3 % from the same quarter last year.

In the first three months of the year, Goldman Sachs workers at the mega-bank saw their pay and benefits increased by roughly $ 23,578 since the same quarter last year, according to the bank's first quarter earnings release.

Cineplex has also expanded its food options, helping its concession revenue per customer grow to $ 6.09, up from $ 5.71 in the same quarter last year.

Total revenue hit $ 279 million, a $ 3 million increase from the same quarter last year, but short of the $ 282 million analysts polled were expecting.

The company still isn't disclosing sales, but the «other» category in its financial results — which counts the Watch, iPods, Apple TV and Beats headphones — improved 30 % from the same quarter last year, leading at least one analyst to believe the company has moved about 12 million to date.

That compared with a profit of $ 232 million or 58 cents per share on $ 10.40 billion in revenue in the same quarter last year.

Net income fell to $ 40.7 million, or 43 cents per share, from $ 65 million, or 69 cents per share, in the same quarter last year.

The bank's return on equity was seven per cent compared with 23 per cent in the same quarter last year.

That compared with a profit of $ 862 million or $ 2.09 per share in the same quarter last year.

Revenue in the quarter came to US$ 1.3 billion, beating the forecast for US$ 1.26 billion, and up from US$ 1.29 billion in the same quarter last year.

Ford Credit saw earnings before taxes rise 33 percent over the same quarter last year, to $ 641 million, but the company now expects full - year EBT to be flat or lower than last year.

Cash burn for the quarter was $ 400,000, down 35 per cent from the same quarter last year, reflecting management's ongoing focus on expense management.

CIBC said its provision for credit losses in quarter were $ 330 million compared with $ 265 million in the same quarter last year.

Amazon's Net profit ballooned this quarter to $ 724 million, or $ 1.48 per share, according to Reuters — up from $ 513 million in the same quarter last year.

That's a 17 % increase over the same quarter last year, and a 6.5 % increase over the second quarter of 2014.

In a market update on Tuesday, the Perth - based integrated screening and verification company said quarterly revenues lifted to a record $ 3.3 m in the third quarter of this financial year, up 21 per cent on the same quarter last year.

Ford's Mobility business, which is tasked with investing in autonomous driving and other mobility technologies and business opportunities, posted higher losses than the same quarter last year.

Ad revenue grew 45.4 percent to $ 4.30 billion, with mobile ads accounting for 78 percent of the total versus 66 percent in the same quarter last year.

At Darden, Olive Garden same - store sales dipped 0.6 percent and Red Lobster sales fell 4.5 percent from the same quarter last year.

The company had 2.9 % of the market as of the second quarter, down from 4.9 % during the same quarter last year.

Imperial's chemical business earned $ 73 million in the quarter, up from $ 45 million in the same quarter last year.

The pipeline company says the profit amounted to 83 cents per share for the quarter ended March 31 compared with 74 cents per share in the same quarter last year.

The Montreal - based airline said it lost $ 170 million or 62 cents per diluted share in its slowest quarter of the year, compared with a loss of $ 13 million or five cents per share in the same quarter last year.

The company recorded a loss of $ 125 - million compared to a profit of $ 934 - million from the same quarter last year, and shipped only 11.1 million smartphones, down 21 % from the previous quarter.

Net additions of post-paid wireless customers, those generally on smartphone contracts, totalled 38,000, down from 98,000 in the same quarter last year, while Rogers lost 31,000 pre-paid customers compared with a loss of 56,000 a year ago.

BlackBerry saw a net loss of $ 148 million, which, to be fair, is much better than the $ 4.4 billion loss the company saw in the same quarter last year.

Excluding one - time, the company earned $ 432 million, or 84 cents for the three months ended June 30, versus $ 497 million, or 96 cents, in the same quarter last year.

But MSNBC showed the most growth in this category as well, climbing by 40 % compared to the same quarter last year.

Tesla also reported first quarter revenue of $ 3.41 billion, up more than 6 % from $ 3.2 billion in the previous quarter and 19 % higher than the same quarter last year.

-- The Jean Coutu Group (TSX: PJC.A) says it earned $ 51.5 million in its latest quarter, down from $ 55.2 million in the same quarter last year.

That compared with $ 2.827 billion, or 54 cents, in the same quarter last year.

United also reported a surging second quarter on Thursday, earning $ 1.19 billion, up from $ 789 million in the same quarter last year.

For the most recent three months, ended Sept. 30, the S&P 500's EPS was $ 31.50 — a robust 9.8 % gain compared with the same quarter last year.