Sentences with phrase «year by a good margin»

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Betting on other spreads has worked better with refining margins increasing sharply this year, as heavy demand for distillates has boosted those margins by more than 50 % in the last two months.

«We had a good start to the year with improving top - line momentum and continued progress in margin expansion driven by strength in Europe and AMEA,» said Dirk Van de Put, Chairman and CEO.

The balance of opinion reached its highest level in five years and indicates that, by a solid margin, businesses across the country saw better indicators of future sales than 12 months ago.

While a number of simple measures of valuation have also been useful over the years, even metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.

These are the best rates since the second week of November 2016, and the best rates of this year by a decent margin.

Yet even with the median and average prices settling after the highs, they were still above 2016 levels by a good margin for the year.»

The corporate sector appears to be well - placed to fund ongoing capital spending, with corporate profits increasing by 13 per cent over the year to the December quarter and profit margins at their highest level in over a decade.

Healdsburg Vintner Truett - Hurst Sales Surge 19 % for Fiscal Year: Healdsburg - based wine company Truett - Hurst Inc. capped its fiscal year with 19.1 percent growth in net sales, better margins and net loss turned down to a trickle, helped partly by cutting two challenging brandYear: Healdsburg - based wine company Truett - Hurst Inc. capped its fiscal year with 19.1 percent growth in net sales, better margins and net loss turned down to a trickle, helped partly by cutting two challenging brandyear with 19.1 percent growth in net sales, better margins and net loss turned down to a trickle, helped partly by cutting two challenging brands...

With huge margins achieved by Australia's fairly concentrated meat processing heavyweights such as Teys and JBS as well as smaller players in the last few years, there has been concern that cattle producers were being ripped off, sparking a parliamentary inquiry and a market study by the competition regulator.

And before Nashua crossed the line he was preceded by an obscure chestnut named Mielleux, Alfred Vanderbilt's Find, and Wise Margin, a 6 - year - old who up to this point had distinguished himself by doing no better than one third in three starts over at the Fair Grounds.

IMO, As he stand now hes a better OLB prospect than KPass is by decent margin and we took him in the 2nd last year.

That was our best game this year by a wide margin.

22 attempts and 8 on target... Oh please, please someone enlighten me as to why we do nt need another CF and how Giroud is a good one when he got bullied by a 16 year old debutant who forced him to go out wide as a lone striker, That defence too my god people were talking about how Koscielny and Metersacker were the best pairing at Cb no were not... and today proved why there were a few times metersacker overcommited when payet was dribblng left a gaping hole in that defence and if westhams strikers were on the ball this would have been a much larger margin.

Torraye played in the Atlantic 10, which was the seventh best conference in the nation, by some margin off the top six, in both of his years there.

The important thing for us is give Wenger the support he need, though I don't think he deserves it; building a team all year long begs for questioning, loosing at 2nd round stage of UCL for 7 seasons, strengthening opponents for so many seasons with our best legs, buying deadwood (silvestre) from MCU, loosing by same margin (5 - 1) to bayern thrice are enough to castigate his reign but who paid the price if we continue in this manner.

Expected goals — the number of goals you're expected to score and concede based on the historical data behind the locations of the shots you take and concede — suggest that City were the best team in the league last year by about a 14 - goal margin.

He's won every Senate race he's been in since he was first elected in 1998 by a comfortable margin, though he's never had a major party challenger in a presidential election year, when Democrats typically perform better.

For comparison, 2015 was 0.8 °F (0.44 C) above that average, beating out 2014 by a good margin as the warmest year on record.

Best title I've played (and beaten) this year, besting Neverwinter Nights and Battlefield 1942 by a sizable margin.

The quality of the studio's films dropped considerably for the second straight year, with the bad releases outnumbering the good by a 2:1 margin.

After an unfocused 2010 that saw a mix of very good and very bad films, Roadside Attractions managed to boost its average Metascore by over 7 points last year, thanks to a generally improved slate that featured a pair of acclaimed documentaries (Project Nim and Thunder Soul) and the timely thriller Margin Call 76.

Bursting onto the scene at the Cannes Film Festival where it was greeted with a 15 - minute standing ovation (and the Best Director Award for Refn), the film — which co-stars Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks — has since went on to rack up the accolades and just manages to pip Attack the Block as our favourite film of the year by the narrowest of margins.

And rightfully so, the two best games this year by a big margin.

And it was, in my view, the best film of the year by a solid margin.

Not only it is one of the best racing game released this year, it is also one of the best Forza Motorsport game by a wide margin.

Well, like last year, the weekly Have Your Say articles are the big winners, by a huge margin.

The Ford F - 150 is still Ford Motor Company's best - selling car by a long margin, and so far year - to - date its sales have only fallen 0.4 percent compared to the same period in 2013.

The new Volkswagen Passat wins the European car of the year 2015 award beating the Mercedes C - Class and BMW 2 - Series by a good margin.

The Fusion Energi's year - to - date sales is well above the C - Max Energi's and it and the Volt are the leading gas - electric cars by a wide margin.

Barnes and Noble may be the clear winner of the first quarter of this year, they have their work cut out for them, as Amazon is going to be releasing a SDK that allows developers to make applications for the Kindle, and by the summer time we should see a new web browser as well Barnes and Noble is banking allot on its games and applications and new e-readers its releasing towards the end of the year to boost its own profit margins.

But by a huge margin, 81 percent to 9 percent, respondents who've read in both kinds of book formats in the past year say print books are better for reading with a child.

By a huge 81 % -9 % margin, those who have read in both kinds of book formats in the past year say printed books are better for reading with a child.

My broad market portfolio did well in absolute terms in April but trailed the S&P 500 for the month by a little; I'm still leading the S&P 500 for the years by a decent margin.

In particular, it seems clearly false that bonds were a better hedge than stocks in this period, just by the simple fact that bonds only outperformed stocks for three years in this window, and only then by a very slim margin.

But by running a variety of scenarios with different levels of spending and a range of investing strategies from conservative to more aggressive and repeating his process every couple of years, you can get a good sense of how much of a margin of safety you have if you continue spending at your current level — and you can see how that margin may grow or shrink as you change how much you spend or how you invest.

The fund has performed exceptionally well in the past five years, beating both the benchmark and its peers by a substantial margin.

Unless you've been rebalancing your holdings regularly, you may very well find that your portfolio has become much more heavily invested in stocks over the past five or six years, a natural consequence of the fact that stocks have outgained bonds by a margin of nearly seven to 1 since the market's trough in 2009.

Frankly, there's a binary outcome here: a) if they can't deliver 10 % margins again soon, it's impossible to argue it's still a core asset — it's better sold off (and should have the rarity value to achieve a decent price), with the proceeds ploughed into share buybacks, or b) they finally get back on track & approach / exceed 10 % margins (notably, this year seems to be shaping up well)-- then, I think they could certainly justify / sustain / support margins by expanding the business via acquisition.

Nobody can know but the best indication would be by looking at the last 10 years of the history of the index (http://www.moneycafe.com/personal-finance/libor/), averaging it (2.88 %) and then adding it to the margin of the loan (2.25 %) which gives you an average rate of 5.13 %.

There've been a ton of Star Wars games over the years, and the good outweigh the bad by a good margin, but these are my favorite of the bunch.

The Brainy Gamer: A cutscene offer you can't refuse Bravo to Michael for pointing out Yakuza 2 for PS2, almost completely ignored thus far due to format: «Yakuza 2 (Ryu ga Gotoku) is the best narrative game I've played this year, by a wide margin.

Indeed for my money, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is by some margin the best Wii U exclusive released so far this year, and given the ailing console's dry upcoming months, it may just keep hold of that title.

After a somewhat muted 2016, it feels like local developers were all gearing up for 2017, which was — by a fairly wide margin — the best year for Australian games actually getting released that I've ever seen.

This dominance may have slipped in recent years with the rise of Call of Duty, as well as Bungie's own Destiny, but it's important to remember that in its prime Halo was comfortably the biggest shooter on console, and the most - played game on Xbox Live by a significant margin.

«In calendar year 2010, we expect our net earnings and operating margin growth will be driven by our product slate that includes Blizzard Entertainment's Starcraft II and the World of Warcraft expansion pack, Cataclysm, as well as a diversified lineup based on Activision Publishing's best - selling franchises including Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk, together with other well - known titles such as True Crime, Spider - Man and Bakugan.»

While the reported profit margin, which treats the total net income distributed among the equity partners at the end of the financial year as the absolute bottom line, may look good, it actually presents an overly positive perspective by ignoring any fixed salary that these managers might receive.

Importantly, in this decision Morgan J rejected completely the hitherto well established principle, applied for years by the Supreme Court Costs Office that an estimate operates as a cap on a client's liability to his solicitors at the estimate plus a margin.

Even the capital markets are excited about the new year — the lead - up to 2011 was 2010's best quarter by a wide margin.

This budget aims at 5lacs clear excemption limit by 2 years to come, The reduction in year from 3 to 2 for long term income calculation helps people in the bracket of5 to 10 lacs fora clear margin on future disinvestment.Secondly the increased expenditure on military and for infrastructure will yeild good results in terms of defence personnel upkeep and general growth in revenue of govt.The demonitisation has started yeilding results but for the bad weather on the anvil.I am hopefull of a better near to expectation budget next year.

Bitcoin has once again been one of the best performing asset classes of the year, outperforming stocks, bonds, and gold by a substantial margin.