Sentence examples for flat and operating from inspiring English sources

It expects same-store sales to be about flat and operating margin to slide 0.1 to 0.2 percentage point.

Motorola's largest business, the cellular phone group, increased sales to $2.81 billion in the first quarter as demand grew for the company's new digital products, but overall orders were flat and operating profits dropped as sales of its older, analog products fell sharply.

Sales growth at Procter has been flat and operating profit has declined for four quarters, Mr. Lafley said.

Typical shield is called flat warm shield, which is flat and operates at room temperature.

Growing cash piles on flat revenues and operating cash flows indicate firms are increasingly sitting on the Benjamins they generate.

As far as Microsoft's quarter went, revenues were flat at $14.5 billion and operating income declined 33percenttoto $4.4 billion.

Those results, as reported today, include flat free-cash flow, and operating earnings per share of between $15.75 and $16.50.

Revenue was flat at the cable division, and operating income was off 9percentthethe number of Internet and telephone subscribers rose, but the company offered promotional discounts and lost some basic video subscribers.

Revenue and operating income were comparatively flat over the same period (Graph 1).

Broadcast revenue rose 4percentto to $1.6 billion, and operating income was essentially flat at $239 million.

Early entrants face many years of flat sales and operating losses and, consequently, the skepticism of stock market analysts.