Sentences with phrase «year during the last quarter»

Unfortunately, the 10 percent rate only applies in the first year during the last quarter.

Not exact matches

The company sold 52.2 million phonesin the March quarter — higher than the 51 million sold during the same quarter last year, but analysts were expecting 53 million.

«We typically don't go into this level of detail but I think it's important this quarter to give you additional color, and maybe the two most important messages are that we believe iPhone revenue will grow double - digits as compared to last year during the March quarter and also and, importantly, that iPhone sell - through growth on a year - over-year basis will be actually accelerating during the March quarter as compared to the December,» chief financial officer Luca Maestri said.

But BlackBerry smartphones make up only 2.9 percent of the global smartphone market, down from 4.9 percent during the second quarter last year, says Framingham, Mass. - based research firm IDC.

Indeed, as labour economist Jim Stanford recently pointed out, our GDP growth fell behind six of the G7 in the second and third quarters of last year, beating only Italy with an average advance of 1.7 % during the six - month period.

It should be noted, however, that PC shipments plummeted over 10 % year - over-year during the fourth quarter of 2015, which means that although fourth quarter PC shipments fell only slightly in the latest quarter, they're still far from making up for the big drop in shipments last year.

But that result is actually a little bit better than what happened during the fourth quarter of last year when the economy shrank 6.3 percent.

The company had 2.9 % of the market as of the second quarter, down from 4.9 % during the same quarter last year.

The stock first slid below a dollar late August, and has continued dropping ever since as Aéropostale reported its third consecutive year of falling sales during its fourth - quarter earnings report last month.

Related: How Tech's Richest People Spend Their Vacations Last week, The Washington Post Company reported $ 138.4 million in revenue during the second quarter for its newspaper publishing division, down 1 percent compared to the same period last yLast week, The Washington Post Company reported $ 138.4 million in revenue during the second quarter for its newspaper publishing division, down 1 percent compared to the same period last ylast year.

That number is an improvement on the 12 - percent decline in subscription revenue AOL saw during the second quarter of last year, which was the lowest rate of decline in five years, the company said.

The total included $ 23.6 million generated during the last three months of last year, as a reduction of operating costs at Torstar's print divisions offset a 10 per cent decline in fourth - quarter revenue.

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

The printing and personal computing giant said Tuesday that it had $ 12.5 billion in sales in its quarter ending Oct. 31, a 2 % increase from the $ 12.2 billion during the same period last year.

The chain last registered comparable sales above 0.3 per cent during the third quarter of its 2016 financial year when the metric reached two per cent.

Despite the layoffs and poor performance in its first quarter, Suncor, Canada's largest oil sands producer, continues pumping out crude, outputting 602,400 barrels per day during the first quarter — up 10 % from the same period last year.

So the discount chain, hoping to avoid the 1.3 % decline in comparable sales of the 2016 holiday season quarter during the most important time of year, is streamlining the number of promotions and making them simpler and easier to understand, Target executives told reporters at a briefing last week in New York.

The company said comparable sales, a measure that excludes the 100 - plus stores Penney has closed in the last year, rose 2.6 % during the three months ended Feb. 3, its busiest quarter of the year.

The figure was still higher than the 50.8 million units that Apple sold during last year's fiscal second quarter...

The report on Monday from the Commerce Department was the latest indication that the rebound from the first quarter's abrupt slowdown would not be as strong as experienced during the same period last year when output was chilled by cold weather.

«Services,» which includes Apple Music, iTunes, iCloud and Apple Pay, brought in an astounding $ 7.3 billion, up from $ 6 billion during the same quarter last year.

Data from Real Capital Analytics (RCA) shows that acquisitions from HNWIs during the first three quarters of the year dropped 45 percent to $ 3.1 billion, compared to the same period last year.

Revenue rose to $ 230.7 million from $ 150 million during last year's first quarter, but didn't meet predictions for $ 244.9 million.

Palo Alto, for instance, reported 27 % year - over-year revenue growth last quarter, while Cisco's security business increased 8 % during the quarter that ended in October.

Last year, that commodity contributed 53 % of its gross profit and it supplied nearly 75 % of the total during the first quarter of 2017 due to a spike in steelmaking coal prices.

It sold 3.3 million PlayStation 4 units during the quarter, slightly down from 3.5 million last year.

During the same quarter last year, the business posted $ 0.23 earnings per share.

• Tesla's negative free cash flow increased to about $ 1 billion in the first quarter, up from $ 277 million during the fourth quarter of last year.

Many of Berkshire's operating businesses performed well during the quarter, and the company reported holding $ 62.4 billion cash at the end of the quarter, up from $ 42 billion last year.

Analysts have been revising up their earnings expectations for global equities in 2017 — a departure from the pattern of downward revisions during first - quarter reporting over the last five years.

Gross profit comparisons get easier during the last quarter of the year.

If you recall, ESPN recognized $ 176 million in previously deferred revenue during Q3 last year and there was no deferred revenue recognized in the third quarter this year.

Additionally, the $ 21B we saw invested this quarter is a record high, just the second time we've reached this funding level during the last 15 years, and Artificial Intelligence saw its biggest funding quarter ever (over $ 1.8 B).

Also, Adobe said that merchants spent 47 percent more on Google Shopping Ads year - over-year last quarter, meanwhile they decreased spending on text - based ads by 6 percent during the same period.

During the last quarter, the company reported that earnings per share were down 43 % on the year even as revenue increased 39 %.

At Societe Generale, named this year's global Best in Interest - Rate Derivatives, sales of these products grew substantially in 2016, making them the biggest contributor to a 42 % increase in revenues from fixed income, currencies and commodities trading during the third quarter of last year.

Customers invested $ 8.8 billion in net cash into Price funds and other portfolios during the first quarter, compared with $ 12 billion pulled out through all of last year.

Having injected fresh energy into the curbing of shadow banking during last year's final quarter, it seems that China is now finally seeing its efforts starting to pay off.

During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $ 0.20 EPS.

Air Canada reported a net loss of $ 170 million in the three month period ending March 31, typically its weakest quarter, compared to a loss of $ 13 million during the same time last year.

Transaction Activity During the quarter, the Fund's equity allocation continued to decline, ending the quarter at 64 %, compared to 65 % last quarter and 73 % at the beginning of the last fiscal year.

Net income was $ 290 million, or 64 cents per share, compared with $ 178 million, or 40 cents per share, during the same quarter last year.

During the same quarter last year, the business earned $ 0.39 earnings per share.

At 28.9 % during last year's fourth quarter, the ratio is above the 26.8 % that existed in early 2009 and even further above the 24 % that existed before the year 2000, both recession years.

Residential rents across Dubai registered no change during the first quarter of 2018, helping improve the annual rate of change to -3.1 %, from -7.7 % at the end of last year.

During a quarter featuring historic market sell - offs and major breaking business news such as a government shutdown and tariff negotiations, FBN saw its Business Day audience grow 13 percent over last year.

Indonesia's economy posted its lowest growth rate during the first quarter of 2013 in over the past two years despite having topped FDI records, exhibiting a mostly declining expansion trend since the last quarter of 2010.

After comparing the two sets of results, we learned that Nest generated $ 278 million in revenue during last year's holiday fourth quarter, which is almost as much as it did in all of 2015, according to previous Recode reporting.

Perhaps that is partly why, in the wake of skyrocketing demand last year across nearly every category, ETF net flows (inflows less outflows) for US - based exchange - traded products (ETPs)-- which are composed almost entirely of ETFs * — decelerated dramatically during the first quarter of 2018.

Comcast lost another 92,000 pay TV subscribers during the first quarter, a notable increase from the 42,000 subscriber net gain the company reported this time last year.