Sentence examples for Slightly exceeding expectations from inspiring English sources

C1 Some Optimism at Cisco Cisco Systems, maker of Internet network equipment, reported profits slightly exceeding expectations.

Business is "slightly exceeding expectations," Ron Slaymaker, Texas Instruments' vice president for investor relations, said in a conference call.

As a result, it will post a quarterly loss of 13 to 15 cents, slightly exceeding expectations of a 12-cent loss.

DealBook »   Banks Line Up for Cheap Loans  |  The European Central Bank issued 529.5 billion euros, or $713 billion, in three-year loans to the Continent's banks on Wednesday, compared with 489 billion euros of loans in December, slightly exceeding expectations, The New York Times reports.

But shares of Home Depot were down 56 cents, to $51.51, after it reported earnings that slightly exceeded expectations.

BT issued final results which, if anything, slightly exceeded expectations at least in terms of the forecast.

Morgan Stanley's report came on the same day that Goldman Sachs issued a profit that slightly exceeded expectations.

Although today's reported 0.8percentt rise in gross domestic product for the final quarter of last year slightly exceeded expectations, Japan has recently been hit by a rash of bad news.

Nokia, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, warned today that sales and earnings growth would slow early this year, even as it reported a fourth-quarter profit that slightly exceeded expectations.

The second-quarter result slightly exceeded expectations.

The New York Times Co. gained 0.9% after reporting fourth-quarter profits that slightly exceeded expectations.