Sentence examples for profit trends from inspiring English sources
The one bright spot was the commentary that 'current year underwriting profit trends are broadly in-line with our expectations...for most business units', but details were thin.
While based on U.S. companies, the numbers also shed light on global profit trends.
Dr. Pepper Snapple was downgraded today by Morgan Stanley from equal-weight to underweight, with a price target of $36 price target, as profit trends have remained weak.
A map of agricultural profit on a large scale and regular updates thereof will help understand profit trends in time and across space.
Analysts at Espirito Santo issued a sell note, saying: No shocks in the managed estate, but it is worth noting that the tenanted estate posted a decline in the like for like profit trend for the third quarter.
19 quarters of losses in a row is bad enough; the fact that the profit trend is going the wrong way is even more troubling.
On top of Πi/Π*, we build PERFi, which stands for the ordinary variable construct of relative profit trend, after standardizing with an average of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, so the variable takes a value bounded into the interval (0,1).
This creates the risk of a vicious circle in which any fall in the stockmarket will push up personal savings, depressing profits and hurting the stockmarket further.The recent profits trend is far from clear.
–Profit-estimate trends: Earnings estimates for 2008 and 2009 have been rising, which is reflected in an earnings estimates score of 75.
–Profit-estimate trends: The earnings estimates score is 96, helped by an 12% increase in the consensus per-share profit estimate for 2008 over the last 90 days.
The weaker revenue and profit margin trends evidenced by China Mobile in the fourth-quarter results it disclosed Thursday strongly suggest that the company's high-growth phase is over; as it matures, it also faces intensified competition in Chinas revamped telecoms market.
