Sentence examples for earnings improvement from inspiring English sources

"[Bank One is] leveraged to earnings improvement with the improved credit environment," says David George, analyst at A.G. Edwards, pointing out that the company will have lower provision expenses when credit costs fall.

Hartmarx said that it still expected to report "significant earnings improvement" for the 2003 fiscal year.

Here's the rub: earnings improvement may not translate into better stock performance.

Managers face intense shareholder pressure to deliver unrealistic earnings improvement commensurate with the stock's multiple.

Concerns about General Motors' pension fund have hurt its stock price and overshadowed its earnings improvement this year.

But his bank's earnings improvement last year was overshadowed by the fourth-quarter woes and a drop in revenue.

Mr. Joy said a rise in the financial sector could signal possible increased credit quality and earnings improvements in banks.

Mr. Zimmerman said that the projected earnings improvements as well as anticipated higher sales from video games to be released later this year might have pushed up today's stock price.

Thomas M. McManus, chief investment strategist for Banc of America Securities, is generally bullish on stocks for the coming year, but he frets about the possibility that "we begin to get some of that dessert course where investors start just throwing money at the market and start pushing up valuations ahead of earnings improvements".

One criticism is that the model doesn't capture some recent balance sheet or earnings improvements.

We discounted the earnings improvements back to 1994, using a rate keyed to money market yields.