Sentences with phrase «smaller than the year»

(Both of those losses, however, were smaller than the year - earlier comparisons.)

The consensus forecast calls for EPS at Urban Outfitters to be the same as in the year - ago period, while EPS at Deere, Dick's Sporting Goods, Gap, Staples and Wal - Mart will be smaller than a year ago, if analysts» expectations are on target.

«The percentage of subprime loans now are much smaller than years ago.

But many of those who attended this year noticed that the conference seemed smaller than year's past and lacked the same level of energy often associated with this conference.

However, a keener eye will reveal to you that last year's model is slightly smaller than this year's model.

Not exact matches

MusclePharm sales are smaller than they once were, but we're a much stronger company than we were a few years ago.

And bucking the trend in a retail industry where many rivals are paring their store fleets, Walmart said it plans to open a few more stores: it expect to open fewer than 15 SuperCenters in the U.S. next year, a small uptick to be sure, but additional physical facilities to support its roughly $ 15 billion a year e-commerce business.

Half of small business social media users complain that the platforms take more time than they'd thought, but almost the same number believe it's time well - spent — that their social media initiatives will pay off financially in a year or less.

Rent increases in neighborhoods that experienced the biggest influx of those workers have risen 65 percent faster over the past five years than areas with the smallest influx, according to Zillow.

We see thousands of small businesses settle into their perfect office environment every year and we see more of the office based businesses flourish than those who choose to stay at home.

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To apply, business owners must be one of Wells Fargo's more than 3 million small business customers, have been in business for at least a year, and have sufficient revenue to support the loans» weekly repayment schedule.

Molson Coors CEO Mark Hunter tried to downplay the results, noting they came in a small quarter and as the entire U.S. beer industry had a softer - than - anticipated start to the year.

He says the Lendio survey is somewhat disingenuous, particularly because total payback amounts tend to favor small business lenders who push loans of less than a year.

While hiring was down by 0.1 percent in March, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10, or 87 percent of small businesses, expect the first quarter to be the same or better than a year ago.

In 2016, women got just 2.19 % of venture capital funding — a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012.

We know that more than 90 percent of small business owners still believe that banks are a first stop for business financing, despite more than a 30 - year history of banks decreasing the amount of their loans going to small businesses.

CNBC's Mike Santoli reports on the lag in small - caps and value stocks despite the market having one of the best starts to the year in more than a decade.

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While the difference in funding is massive, it's slightly smaller than in previous years.

For more than 50 years, the U.S. president has declared one week per year National Small Business Week.

It's a far cry from the days — say 15 years ago — when less than a dozen banks held a corporate loan on their balance sheet, and companies could renegotiate the terms of their loan with a single creditor, or a small committee.

Despite progress forged in leaps and bounds in recent years, women - owned businesses are still likely to be smaller than those owned by males, and indeed, they are more likely to fail.

Many of the 1,433 small business owners surveyed expect to live well into their retirement years, with one in three saying they plan to retire older than 70.

This, of course, is a better figure than five years earlier, though it remains very small.

Victoria Treyger, CMO of online business loan provider Kabbage, has some ideas that are worth hearing, considering the company has served more than 100,000 small businesses in the nearly four years it has been around, doling out $ 600 million in loans.

Millennial small business owners have more confidence in their retirement savings than baby boomers, according to our survey, possibly because millennial owners started their business at a younger age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirement plans.

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For decades, Japan had accumulated solid current account surpluses, but the surplus for 2012 more than halved from a year before to 4.7 trillion yen, the smallest on record.

Those kinds of struggles had led 53 percent of those small businesses to apply for funding or credit lines over the past five years — and more than one in four said they had sought loans multiple times.

A survey by the Aspen Institute found that nearly half of American microborrowers were still in business five years later, a higher share than the SBA reports for small businesses as a whole.

The value of commercial and industrial loans of less than $ 1 million — a common proxy for small business lending — was 17 percent lower in June of this year than it was at the beginning of the recovery — when measured in inflation adjusted terms.

Last year for Small Business Saturday 2014, more than 126,000 tweets were sent in support of the initiative, a 10 - percent increase from the previous year.

Though many community banks in this program have, controversially, used this money to pay off TARP rather than lend to small business, Hall says the money will help Team Capital make $ 200 million in loans to local small businesses, and it has enabled it to loan out $ 40 million in the past year.

In fact, according to a 2013 survey, 43 percent of small business owners are taking less vacation time than five years ago.

With the help of 500 employees across two production facilities (the other is in North Carolina), Spinrite packages and sells more than 50 million balls of yarn a year under seven brands to big retailers like Michaels and Walmart, as well as smaller independent shops.

Over the past three years, half of small business owners reported applying for a loan from banks or another financial institution, with 20 percent applying more than once for financing.

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To help these small businesses boost their brands and recruit highly - skilled applicants, LinkedIn has introduced a suite of paid services designed to help companies with fewer than 500 employees showcase their talent brand and conduct passive recruitment year - round.

But the reason they're expecting to do well this year has more to do with their marketing efforts, rather than the recovering economy or other factors like low oil prices, according to a small business holiday survey from Constant Contact, an online marketing firm in Waltham, Massachusetts.

«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

Small business owners are more satisfied with the federal government than they have been in recent years, but a new survey has found there are still a lot of changes the sector would like to see implemented to help run their businesses efficiently.

Fixed - income investors should be realistic in expecting this to be a year of relatively low returns across asset classes in general — a year in which small ball becomes much more important than swinging for the fences.

In recent years they have added international equities and small - cap stocks — asset classes that come with higher volatility than sturdier blue chips, but also offer the promise of higher returns.

One of Canada's most dynastic companies, the Irving group got its start back in the 1920s, when K.C. opened a small service station in Bouctouche, N.B. Nearly 100 years on, the family controls more than 250 enterprises scattered across Canada and the northeastern United States.

Its share of the market more than doubled to 11 % just four years later, as beer drinkers are increasingly attracted to smaller, local brands.

For more than 30 years, from startup to retirement, millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners have trusted Entrepreneur to point them in the right direction.

More than half of small businesses polled by SurePayroll say they expect to surpass expectations in the third quarter of this year.

The discount retailer, locked in a fierce battle with Amazon.com (amzn) to shorten the time it takes to get customers» packages to their homes, last week acquired Parcel for an undisclosed amount «smaller than previous acquisitions» Walmart has made this year (which include Bonobos, Moosejaw, and Modcloth), the company said in a blog.