Sentences with phrase «time this year compared»

Teachers» superior returns were attributed to patience (they traded just 6.1 times a year compared to an average of 9.1), risk reduction (they had a 12 % higher allocation of diversified funds), and being more invested (they held less cash in their portfolios).

According to a study by the American Veterinary Medical Association, dogs visit the vet about 2.3 times a year compared to cats» 1.1 annual visits.

Not exact matches

Compare that to the statistics for beer: Down 4 percent over the last five years, with Budweiser's domestic sales down 28 percent in the same time period, Marketwatch reports.

Compared to counterparts who take all their vacation time, they are less likely to have been promoted within the last year (23 % to 27 %), and to have received a raise or bonus in the last three years (78 % to 84 %).

Singapore - headquartered bank DBS declined to reveal total digital red packet numbers, but said that there were five times more e-hongbaos sent last year compared with 2016.

From the start of 2005 through the end of 2014, it delivered a total return of 746 %, or 23.8 % per year, compared with a 20.6 % annual return for the S&P railroad index and 7.7 % for the broader market over that time.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

WellCare's net income rose more than $ 100 million in the third quarter of 2017 compared to the same time period last year thanks to stellar growth in its Medicare business and much lower - than - expected medical costs for its Medicaid plan holders relative to their premiums.

Comparing full - time, year - round workers, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn, said Dana Britton, director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J..

The company lost $ 69.3 million in the first six months of 2013, compared with $ 49.1 million at the same time last year.

Although fundraising levels surged to an all - time high in 2017, deal volume is down 11 % when compared to last year, according to PitchBook's Q3 U.S. PE report.

That's one - third at a time when more and more companies demand and value data literacy in their employees — and 76 % of employees report they are working with a higher volume of data today compared to three years ago.

Investor confidence in the U.S. increased four percent this year, compared to the same time a year ago, according to the survey results.

Likewise, compared with the figures from the list just two years ago, nearly three times as many companies, or 11 %, found a sugar daddy in strategic partners and customers.

Compared to the average discounted rate on five - year mortgages over the past five years, which according to ratehub.ca is about 4.25 %, Shearer will have saved about $ 18,000 in interest and owe $ 6,000 less by the time his mortgage expires.

According to a Payscale report, which calculated ratios based on the cash compensation of CEOs at the 100 highest - grossing public companies in the United States in 2013, CVS CEO Larry Merlo has the highest pay compared to his employees: $ 12,112,603 — 422 times as much as the average CVS employee, who earns $ 28,700 per year.

Compared with the seven - year time scale of the Nestle boycott, or the multiyear boycotts of corporations operating in South Africa during the 1980s, this was something new.

Even after Alphabet's more than $ 100 billion market gain this year alone, the company trades at just 23 times expected 2017 earnings, compared with about 18.5 times for the S&P 500, and is growing much faster.

Cramer's main issue was that the stock was still quite expensive relative to its peers, trading at 14 times next year's sales estimates, compared to ForeScout at 4 times sales and Okta at 9 times sales.

Compared to a five - year - old laptop, Intel claims that its new U-series Kaby Lake chips can multitask - when you're using several apps at the same time - twice as fast, and will load websites up to 1.9 times as quickly (depending on your internet speeds).

There were also 76 million active users, compared to 70.1 at the same time last year.

By the time the promotion ended the following Friday, Logos received about 2,000 emails and generated about $ 300,000 — tripling revenues compared with the same period last year.

Profits from mobile devices jumped to 3.3 trillion won compared with just 100 billion won at the same time last year, when the company booked the costs of the withdrawal of its fire - prone Note 7 gadget.

So while the time for VIX to fall back to 15 has, in the post-financial-crisis era, shortened compared with what was seen before and during the crisis, history still points to the likelihood that volatility will remain above what was seen in recent years.

For the six months ended June 30, 2013 Twitter reported $ 253 million in revenue, about double its revenue compared to the same time period a year earlier.

Revenue, which dropped for the first time in four quarters, totaled C$ 3.19 billion compared with C$ 3.21 billion a year earlier.

Total employee headcount — including full - and part - time people but not temps or contractors — was up 48 % to 341,400 for the quarter compared to 306,800 for the fourth quarter last year.

His trademarked TW Nike hat is selling 850 % higher compared to this time last year.

But shipments of Windows Phone devices grew 78 per cent to 8.7 million in the April - to - June period, compared with the same time a year ago.

But during the call with shareholders and analysts, Amazon chief financial officer Brian Olsavksy reiterated a claim from the earnings release that unit sales grew nine times during the holiday period compared to the year prior's numbers.

The S&P 500 was trading on Tues. at 16.9 times Wall Street estimates for the next 12 months compared with its 20 - year average of 16.4 and the 20 year median of 15.6.

Investors in Amazon's 1997 IPO (three years after its founding at a market capitalization of $ 625 million, in current dollars) made 565 times their money, compared to 20 - times for investors in Google's 2004 IPO (six years after founding at a valuation of $ 29 billion) and 3.7 - times for investors in Facebook's $ 110 billion IPO five years ago.

At the same time, female founders received a mere $ 1.46 billion in funding last year, compared to the $ 58.2 billion haul of companies with all - male founders.

In the first five months of 2016, there have been at least 23 reported shootings by toddlers, as compared to 18 in the same time period last year.

Earnings before interest, taxes and one - time items rose 20 % to 4.13 billion kroner ($ 652 million), beating estimates of 3.82 billion kroner Sales rose 2 % on a basis that excludes currency and acquisition effects, compared with analysts projections for growth of 3.2 % Debt reduced by 14 % to 21.9 billion kroner Carlsberg reduced its full - year forecast for gains from currency shifts to 50 million kroner from 300 million kroner.

This slump holds true regardless of gender, age, race, work or marital status, although it's most precipitous for American who were married or living with a romantic partner, a group that reported having sex 16 fewer times per year in the early 2010s when compared to the early 2000s.

Most kids are native technology users by the time they enter elementary school, with 8 out of 10 5 - to -8-year-olds using mobile devices, compared with only half of all children just two years ago.

Patel also doesn't feel that the iPad Air 2 offers anything astoundingly new compared to last year's model, but did write that the battery lasted for a long time.

Time spent on mobile devices was up 117 percent in the year compared to 2014, Flurry, a Yahoo - owned analytics company, said in a report on Tuesday.

Strikingly, Christmas and Easter were the two specific occasions when dog poisoning by chocolate rose significantly compared to other times of the year (including Halloween and Valentine's Day).

Ring had «north of» $ 100 million in sales last year, growing by 12 times compared with the previous year, Siminoff said.

But the value it puts on the business news startup — roughly six times next year's revenues, according to Axel Springer — looks not unreasonable compared with some recent deals involving new - media entities like Vice, Vox Media, and BuzzFeed.

The refinance boom dropped off last year around the same time lenders were adjusting to the QM rule, which made the rate of growth in origination slower when compared to the pace of 2013.

A New York Times article reported that 64 % of positions to be filled last year were in hospitals, compared with only 11 % in 2004.

Nothing compares to the instananeous (in relation to geological time) release of vast quantities of CO2 and other GHGs into the atmosphere of the last 200 years, and the fact that the last 50 years have been the warmest for at least a millennium.

The company reported Tuesday that iPhone sales rose by 3 percent, compared with the same time last year.

This is nearly 8 years worth of labour time and about an extra 100 weeks compared to the 1989 peak.

Despite a one - time, $ 425 - million charge tied to tax reform in the U.S., BMO reported $ 973 million in net income for the quarter ended Jan. 31 of this year, with revenue growth of about 5 per cent compared with the year before.

Compared to the start of the year, the expected timing of any further Fed interest rate hikes has been pushed back, and the expected upward trajectory of U.S. short - term rates is now much flatter.

We are analyzing relatively short or intermediate time periods (8 and 5 years) and some more lengthy periods (15, 17, and 25 years) and comparing how much money $ 10,000 would grow to time with perfect timing, versus the worst possible timing.