Sentence examples for ambitious earnings from inspiring English sources

"These adjustments were made so that Vivendi could meet ambitious earnings targets that it had communicated to the market," the S.E.C. said.

Decoded, if a bank is focused on big profits (Moody's talked about Deutsche Bank's ambitious earnings objectives), then "more leverage and risk" can look like the means to get there.

Mr. Kelly of Time is under special financial pressures to meet his numbers, because Time Inc. needs to meet ambitious earnings goals set by its parent, AOL Time Warner.

With the company's ambitious earnings targets, as well as fresh challenges from Microsoft in instant messaging and other areas, is AOL a "buy?" This week's Street Fight pits Daniel Peris Daniel Peris of Argus Research against Scott Reamer Scott Reamer of SG Cowen.

To hit its ambitious 30% earnings target this year, Capital One plans to have 42 million customers by year's end, up 8 million.

IBM shares rose as much as 3.3percenttoto $167.72, their highest level on record adjusted for stock splits, as a host of analysts raised their target price on the company, the day after it reaffirmed its ambitious 2015 earnings target.

The S.E.C. said the company pressured its wholesalers to buy substantial amounts of pharmaceuticals ahead of anticipated demand, permitting it to meet its ambitious sales and earnings projections -- even though the tactic also meant that the wholesalers would buy less in the future, causing sales to eventually decline.

Whatever happens to Spain, almost every Spanish multinational has set ambitious targets to derive more earnings from outside the country.

To finance the ambitious legislation, Larson would subject earnings of $400,000 or more to the Social Security payroll tax.

The stock market has a much more ambitious target for S.& P. 500 earnings than we do.

This, writes Stach "effectively sealed the fate of their ambitious plan, and the millions in earnings returned to the realm of the imaginary".