Reductions in amounts paid by government programs for their services or changes in methods or regulations governing payments could cause their net patient service revenue and profits to materially decline.
Operating costs are set to materially decline as they convert their entire production to cheaper, smaller line widths, the equal or better of any industry competitor, and slated to move over to the newly acquired Taiwan operation in the several quarters ahead.
"However, it would still be faced with materially declining newspaper advertising revenues and the particular structural challenges of its loss-making Danish business.
Test licences continue to decline materially, as already factored into our forecasts.
Health plan membership is expected "to decline materially" in 2002, he said, as Aetna raises prices to cover rising medical costs and as the withdrawals that it has already announced take effect.
The CBO expects the number of uninsured to decline materially this year, and private survey data indicates that the share of Americans without insurance went down by about 20percentt in the six months since the state and federal exchanges opened in October.
The SEC called the proxy materials materially false and misleading.
A public corporation can experience positive book value accretion while its stock price declines materially– Microsoft is a good example of this, along with Coca-Cola, which Berkshire owns.
"Citi's credit exposure to coal mining companies has declined materially since 2011," Citi said in a 10-page memo on its environmental practices.
My thesis then, which appears to be proving true, is that even as revenues decline, profitability will hold up materially better than it has during past downturns.
But a group of groundbreaking new reports, being published online as a series today in The Lancet, suggest that voluntary physical inactivity, a practice once confined mostly to North America and parts of Europe, is spreading rapidly to the rest of the world and likely contributing materially to global gains in tonnage and declines in health.
