Sentence examples for material earnings from inspiring English sources
Barclays said: BT investors have ridden a wave of buoyant fixed line market and cost cutting which has provided three years of material earnings growth and share price outperformance.
But two weeks later, another banker, James F. Reilly, told colleagues in an e-mail message that Enron had suggested that "it is unlikely that there will be any material earnings benefit" from the deal.
The bank said: "Despite the likelihood of a relatively poor second quarter (Easter, currency and certain one-off items) we believe that Europe's largest two tour operating companies are on track to deliver material earnings growth this year and further earnings margin improvement next year".
How about we don't mention the terms "cord cutting" until a cable company issues a material earnings hit as a direct result of the "cord cutting" phenomenon, and when they do, you can all "tweet me" to say "I told you so", but until then… drop it….
Natural gas is becoming an increasingly important part of the raw material and earnings positions of large oil compan ies, the survey said.
It is also why Applied Material's earnings announcement this week is as important as Google's IPO several months from now.
But while the watch may end up being a relatively small driver of Apple revenue in 2015 — "continued iPhone 6 sales, coupled with purchases of higher memory configurations, are more material to earnings," Citigroup analyst Jim Suva told MarketWatch last week — the sheer number of new wearable devices flooding the market could change how Americans think about them.
Health plan executives and financial analysts were happy that the relatively minor reductions were "not material to earnings," to use Wall Street jargon.
The company says it wont have a material effect on earnings in fiscal 2009, but will slightly raise earnings in fiscal year 2010.
"Economic deterioration in global markets would also have a material impact on earnings and the discount rate investors may apply to these earnings," Deutsche Bank said.
In an effort to pick out a bright side to those group's woes, Mr. Joyce noted that those market segments have such small profit margins that the declines had no material impact on earnings.
