Sentences with phrase «single digits each year»

While some housing market trackers report a slowdown — price increases averaging in the single digits year over year, compared with 15 - 30 % in recent years — in the nine cities tracked by market research firm Dragonomics, prices were down 4.9 % in April compared to a year earlier.

Thanks to better protective equipment and safer coaching techniques, football deaths have now dropped to single digits each year.

Bain forecasts Europe and China to grow in high single digits this year.

With a moderately growing economy and less Fed stimulus, investors expect returns for stocks to be in the high single digits this year — the kind of backdrop where individual stock selection can make a big difference.

Instead, with a moderately growing economy and less Fed stimulus, investors expect returns for stocks to be in the high single digits this year — the kind of backdrop where individual stock selection can make a big difference.

The Nikkei adds that the gross profit margin on the latest Prius, which goes on sale in Japan in May from as little as $ 21,000, is likely to be in single digits this year.

Jail sentences for certain of these drug offences can climb into high single digit years and even double digits of years behind bars.

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Revenue has been growing for a year and is expected to continue to grow in the mid - to high - single digits for the rest of the year.

Tightening of monetary policy meant to cool the housing market over the past year, combined with a wind - down in public works, has served to slow GDP growth into the single digits.

Huber of T. Rowe Price foresees high - single - digit earnings - per - share growth, and 15 % share - price upside in the next couple of years, even before factoring in yield.

But Facebook was in the single digits late last year, says Brian Shin, the company's founder.

For instance, if your company grew gross profit dollars 12 % year over year, a mid to high single - digit average salary increase will likely be feasible, while still generating positive cash flow.

But that follows nearly two years of single digit growth, which was kept in check due to the fallout from Sandy and the need to invest in the upgrades.

SR: Eighty - five percent of our growth in next five years will come from our own stores and online, while wholesale [department and other big - box stores] will grow single digits [percentage].

Nearly half of these hedgies posted only single - digit returns for their investors in 2016, «a lackluster sum in a year when the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index was up 12 percent, accounting for reinvested dividends,» writes The New York Times.

There are two main reasons for the commodity pullback, says de los Reyes: China's GDP growth has slowed from about 11 % a year to single digits, and supply has finally caught up with demand.

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), adjusted for one - offs, were set to decline by a low - single - digit percentage and not match the prior - year level, as previously forecast.

Sales would likely decline in 2018 in the low single - digit percentage range to below 35 billion euros ($ 42 billion), where it had previously predicted about 35 billion euros for the year.

In effect, that means the company won't be raising list prices more than 5.4 % this year — a step further than other companies like Allergan (agn), Novo Nordisk (nvo), and others who have promised to keep spikes in the single digits.

You want a transparent lender that offers single - digit interest rates, long terms (ideally as long as 10 years), stellar customer service, and verified online security.

The company, which did not disclose earnings figures, said it still expected mid single - digit organic growth in operating profit this year.

He's optimistic that the company can deliver mid-to-high single digit revenue growth over the next three years.

After all, as Regeneron CEO Len Schleifer pointed out, pricing a drug to its value would suggest that its price shouldn't have to be raised year after year, even if it's by the single digits.

Renewed focus is paying off: In 2015, sales grew — by what Alling characterized as «high single digits» — for the first time in several years.

Looking ahead, Chipotle says it expects sales in established locations to rise in the low - to mid-single digits for the year, up from its previous forecast of growth in the low single digits.

For full year 2018, management forecasts 130 - 150 new restaurant openings and same store sales growth in the low - single digits.

By the time that decade ended, price - to - earnings ratios were in the single digits — but you had little or nothing to show for buying cheap equities during the prior 15 years; and that's before accounting for very high inflation.

«With just a few more days left until Friday's deadline, we think enrollment is tracking towards a single - digit percent decline (if renewal rate holds consistent with prior years and year - over-year growth in new sign - ups seen to date is sustained), but it all comes down to an uncertain final surge,» Newshel wrote in a research note.

There have been 57 years of double - digit gains and just nineteen years of single - digit gains.

However, these two consumer goods giants have increased their dividends in the mid single digits in recent years, while relatively tiny Hormel is still growing its dividend in the mid-teens.

Wall Street forecasts for the S&P 500 for 2016 look for single - digit percentage gains and are less optimistic than last year's forecasts.

In the Recode report from last year, a Whole Foods sale rep noted that Instacart accounted for total sales percentages as high as «the mid - to high single digits» in certain stores.

His team is forecasting single - digit upside for 2018 and rising volatility, as the year progresses.

In lean years, between income and a dance with the Schedule C, my effective tax rate can be almost down to the single digits.

I'm actively looking at my debt and determining if it makes more sense to pay down mortgages (locking in a guaranteed ~ 4 % return) or investing in bonds (~ 1 % returns if held to maturity) or stocks (uncertain, but I just wrote an article about the current PE ratio and the inevitable reversion to the mean and I believe we are likely headed for 10 years of low single digit returns).

Given that revenues will continue to be down this year for both, somewhere in the mid single digit range, they'll have to continue cutting costs and staff to maintain profitability.

The newspaper runners, falling farther and farther behind, have been down by middle - to - high single digits in year - over-year ad revenue so far in 2011.

That said, while Baytex does see low - single - digit production growth next year, many of its peers will grow much faster, including Canadian Natural Resources, which will benefit from the completion of two major expansion projects over the next year.

Now my path seems to be clear for the next 10 years: — earn as much as possible (instead of looking for investments that yield 20 - 25 % / year, because those don't last and usually flop in a year or too)-- save as much as possible — look for conservative investments (single digit income, but consistently)

More alarming still, for 50 large companies in prolonged stall - out, we found that the onset had usually been sudden: Momentum fell sharply over just a year or two, with growth rates dropping from double digits to low single digits or even negative numbers — a finding consistent with past research (see «When Growth Stalls,» HBR, March 2008).

«Iron Horse signed up with VinoPRO over five years ago and we've seen double digit percentage increases in sales every single year.

But in the face of a 4 - year high in the 10 - year bond yield and a 2 - week high in the DX, limiting gold's decline to single digit was a relief.

Starbucks reiterated its 2018 outlook but said the guidance excludes the yet - to - be determined impact on its previously announced plan to close more than 8,000 company - owned stores for half a day to conduct racial - bias training for its employees in the U.S. Comparable - store sales are seen up 3 % to 5 % globally for the year, and revenue growth is seen in the high single digits, Starbucks said.

Even if valuations remain above historical norms a decade from today, it will be extremely difficult for stocks to post total returns beyond the low single digits in the coming 10 - year period.

Dividends per share have grown consistently in the mid single digit percent range over the past 7 years.

The company had previously told investors to expect profit growth in the high - single digits over the course of the 2013 to 2016 fiscal years.

The basis of my assertion that equity market returns over the next 10 years will likely be in the low single digits, if not negative, is my belief in the irresistible force of mean reversion.

These projects are expected to generate substantial cash flow (backed by long - term contracts with customers) as they come online over the next few years, helping Dominion Energy generate mid to high - single - digit annual earnings growth.

Factor in what might be high - single - digit business growth over the next year, as well as what's currently a yield of just over 2.25 %, and you could easily make a case for what might be a total return of ~ 25 % for 2018.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc., which have the two biggest trading units by revenue, have said they expect trading revenue to be up by «single digits» from a year ago.