Sentence examples for stronger quarter from inspiring English sources

Gross win margins were below our expected trading range for what is typically a stronger quarter, impacted by – amongst other things – our largest ever loss-making week in week three".

Morgan Stanley is also on track to post a stronger quarter than in the period a year earlier, but its results are not expected to be quite as strong as Goldman's as Morgan has struggled more than its rival to ramp up its business since the financial crisis.

Oriel Securities said: A stronger quarter from Hays than we were expecting with growth of 8% underlying compared to our estimated 3%, in line with the second quarter's growth, and this will allow consensus pretax profit to advance by around 3%-43%-4%

PayPal has a stronger quarter, ending the period with 109.8 million active registered accounts, a 12% increase over the first quarter of 2011.

Though net profits for the third quarter fell to $5.3 billion, from $8.1 billion a year ago, the figure was better than anticipated, signaling a stronger quarter for the energy sector.

Sadly for AT&T, Verizon had a much stronger quarter when it came to adding new postpaid wireless subscribers — the nation's largest carrier reported a whopping 888,000 new contract customers earlier this month, compared to the 320,000 that AT&T managed to add to the fold.

The Glenview, Ill.-based company said most of its end markets are stabilizing and were slightly stronger quarter-over-quarter, mostly due to increased building of automotive equipment.

HBO had a particularly strong quarter in ratings.

"This is our strongest quarter ever," Mr. Fink said in an interview.

Its wealth management unit, which includes the Merrill Lynch brokerage house, had a strong quarter.

"We had a strong quarter overall, particularly in executing against our top strategic priorities.