Sentences with phrase «than expectation on»

Achieving 200 % more than our expectation on the recent sale is proof that the auction process is the correct one and more importantly that Higgenbotham is the right firm!

Not exact matches

Dick's pointed to sales of hunting gear such as rifles, which chief financial officer Lee Belitsky called «much worse than our expectations» on a conference call, and athletic apparel is key culprits in the shortfall.

Gold fell 1.2 percent on Friday after stronger than expected U.S. payrolls data shored up expectations that a pick - up in inflation will spur further U.S. interest rate hikes this year, boosting the U.S. currency, in which it is priced.

Most companies have strict expectations on hours; workers are expected to be at their desks and working no later than 9, and are free to go any time after 5.

And that will require investors to adjust their strategy and their expectations henceforward — by paying more for equities, taking on more risk with fixed income and socking away more than they used to.

There's also some stacking going on, meaning if you set expectations in daughters» heads that they should go to college AND they should not get pregnant as teenagers, they're more likely to make it to age 20 without having a child than they would have been if you'd only pushed the «don't have a baby until you're old enough to be ready» message.

That was more than five times expectations and included 12,600 new jobs on factory floors.

BP surpassed analyst expectations on Tuesday, despite profits more than halving from the first three months of the year after a hefty charge from an unsuccessful project in Angola.

Their passengers have higher expectations than when they pay an identical fare for the same trip on a low - cost carrier.

Commenting on the Company's first quarter results, Ryder Chairman and CEO Robert Sanchez said, «Our results were at the high - end of our expectations in the first quarter, driven by stronger than expected results in our rental, supply chain, and dedicated businesses.

«While revenue for Q4 and FY18 was below expectations due to lower than anticipated smartphone unit volumes, Cirrus Logic made meaningful progress this past year on numerous strategic initiatives that we expect to position the company for a return to year - over-year growth in FY20,» said Jason Rhode, president and chief executive officer.

Heading into MSCI's 2015 decision on A shares, high expectations of inclusion helped drive the Shanghai composite to more than seven - year highs, before the index crashed more than 40 percent that summer.

And that requires the boss to be more proactive than just giving recruits quick run - downs on expectations and the company culture, then pointing them to a manual.

Small business owners have adjusted their expectations based on the economic situation: a slowly - recovering economy that's less than thriving.

They've been «anchored» to a certain price point, and if they're focused on costs rather than the value of outcomes, you're never going to escape the weight of their lowball expectations.

«We think this deal more than meets investors» expectations for fiscal year 2018 but the details will matter as appropriators get to conferencing respective House - Senate positions on major programs.»

Daily - deal pioneer Groupon and social - gaming firm Zynga, which both achieved big valuations based on little more than high expectations, are tanking.

We're placing more expectations on our relationships than ever before — we want our partner to be our best friend, our lover, our intellectual sparring partner, maybe our co-parent — while simultaneously investing less time and energy in the relationship.

Snap shares plummeted more than 13 percent in extended trading after the social media company reported earnings and revenue misses, as well as a miss on analyst expectations for global daily active users.

It's become wildly popular in the country, though this quarter, device sales were slower than the company's expectations, Chief Financial Officer Martin King said Thursday on a call with analysts following the release of first - quarter earnings results.

Apollo said it will pay $ 17.12 per share in cash for ClubCorp, a 30.7 percent premium over its closing price on Friday, but less than the 12 - month high of $ 17.50 the shares reached in February, on investor expectations that a sale process first reported by Reuters in January would be successful.

Companies like Twitter — trendy businesses with high expectations — are more prone to big stock declines on mixed results than other operations.

Effects of currency movements in the quarter were more than the company's expectations due to the surprise Brexit vote in June, co-Chief Executive Safra Catz said on a conference call.

If you know your business inside and out, have a clear plan for its growth, and maintain solid expectations that it will succeed (which are based on more than just wishful thinking), there's no reason you shouldn't carry yourself with a bit of the ol' Buffett swagger.

The figure represents a jump of 19 % on those who said they needed more than $ 1 million to retire a decade ago, according to Bloomberg, which also notes that people's expectations on the size of the nest egg they'll require tends to rise with their income.

In particular, he says, CEOs should be more like quarterbacks in the way quarterbacks stay focused on the real goal of the game — winning — rather than on meeting the expectations of those who speculate on the outcome of the game from the outside.

In reality, over-promising on capabilities can lead to mismanaged expectations and may do more harm than good to a leader's reputation.

Likewise, Martin says, CEOs should focus on their companies» real performance, rather than on how they perform relative to the expectations of stock analysts.

On a final note, Boeing — the world's largest aircraft manufacturer — hit fresh new highs last week after the company crushed Wall Street expectations, reporting record operating cash flow of $ 13.4 billion for 2017, up more than a quarter percent from $ 10.5 billion in 2016.

The Cupertino, California, mobile giant on Tuesday reported fiscal third - quarter earnings that were better than analysts estimated, and its revenue was largely in line with expectations — but it wasn't the blowout Wall Street has gotten used to.

Broadly, Goldberg and Leonard's findings over the January 2000 - June 2002 study period are consistent with the expectation that yields will rise on signs of stronger economic conditions or faster - than - anticipated inflation.

Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.

On the other hand, the latest CPI figure was a little below expectations, and may indicate that global disinflationary forces are stronger than had been expected.

(Reuters)- AbbVie Inc (ABBV.N) forecast its flagship drug Humira to bring $ 21 billion in sales by 2020, about $ 3 billion higher than its expectation two years ago, driving the U.S. drugmaker's shares up 4 percent on Friday.

In other words, as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's stock prices increase — and they have so far more than doubled since the election on the expectation that the incoming Trump administration will be more lenient toward the financial sector than Obama — Trump's portfolio benefits.

«Our expectation is for pockets of volatility on an idiosyncratic basis around these events, rather than a wholesale sea change of volatility,» said Ben Robins, portfolio specialist at T. Rowe Price.

Because our model focuses on quantifying the market's expectations for the future financial performance of a company as embedded in the stock price, we need a more dynamic DCF model than the traditional models that force the valuation of every stock into a 5 or 10 - year forecast horizon.

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Crude prices have gained more than 10 % over the past month on brighter demand prospects and expectations that global producers will extend an agreement to curb output.

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways on March 14 reported full - year net loss of HK$ 1.26 billion ($ 161 million), narrower than market expectations of a HK$ 2.15 billion loss.

On Wednesday, the company's first - quarter earnings crushed all expectations, and the stock was up more than 9 % in after - hours trading as a result.

Revenue matched analyst expectations and the Swedish streamer's losses are slightly down year - on - year, but it gave guidance for the current quarter that was a bit lower than expected, suggesting slower growth than investors would like to see.

End - of - week profit taking prevented the U.S. dollar from extending its gains on Friday despite stronger - than - expected first - quarter U.S. GDP growth and an upward revision to the University of Michigan's consumer confidence index.With that in mind, steady growth and rising inflation expectations should foster further gains in the dollar next week as investors are convinced that the Federal Reserve will use the May meeting to prepare the market for a June hike.

Our actual expectation is that the completion of the current market cycle is likely to wipe out the entire total return of the S&P 500 — in excess of Treasury bill returns — all the way back to roughly October 1997; an outcome that would require a market retreat no larger than it experienced in the past two cycles, and that would not even carry historically reliable valuation measures to materially undervalued levels (see When You Look Back On This Moment In History).

«Notable was that the demand environment remains strong, with traffic ahead of expectations on lower than expected capacity,» said RBC Capital Markets analyst Walter Spracklin in a note to clients Monday.

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.

Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ: CSCO) is a top riser on the Dow after reporting second quarter earnings that beat expectations and returning to revenue growth for the first time in more than a year and a half.

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) reported better - than - expected earnings for its first quarter on Wednesday, but sales fell short of expectations.

Then it needs to acknowledge that although inflation is persistent, it is very difficult to forecast and signal that it will focus on inflation and inflation expectations data rather than measures of output and employment in forecasting inflation.

In the March quarter, revenues were down 10 % on a year over year basis, which was worse than our expectation for a low single - digit fall.