During Q3 earnings, management outlined their efforts to tap the market by increasing the size of the sales force.
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According to McNulty, the risks include earnings, management depth, and valuation.
Endless opportunities to manipulate both sales and earnings allow all management teams to alter what they report every quarter.
The upshot is that half of the earnings went into management's pocket.
The ETF tracks a NYSE Arca index that selects stocks based on price and earnings momentum, earnings quality, management and value, says Ed McRedmond, senior vice president of institutional and portfolio strategies at Invesco PowerShares, the fund's sponsor.
Steve Shafer, chief investment officer at Covenant Global Investors, counts both JPMorgan and Wells Fargo among his holdings, but says he is less concerned about short-term data points like a single quarter of earnings than he is with sound management and a positive earnings trajectory over a longer period.
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"MF has suffered a series of market, credit and liquidity events which have challenged management and earnings, " Fitch said.
BlackRock fell after the world's largest money manager posted earnings and assets under management that were largely unchanged from a year earlier.
When asked about it on their earnings call, Google management says not to worry and that it will eventually go back up.
The company also said earnings benefitted from tighter management.
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Management increased its earnings forecast for fiscal 2011 to reflect the better-than-expected second quarter results.
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Management increased its earnings forecast for fiscal 2011 based on this higher than expected performance.
How well management spends retained earnings to the benefit of shareholders is looked at, specifically.
Net revenues are expected to grow at least 40% year-over-year and management is projecting earnings of 44-52 cents per share.
Nearly a month before announcing its third-quarter earnings, for example, management issued a statement suggesting that results would likely come in lower than analysts' expectations.
Blue Coat Systems shares are trading sharply lower this morning after the Web security and wide-area network optimization software company reduced its earnings outlook and disclosed a management shake-up.
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But MBf Finance apparently does not fulfill some of the other conditions of the central bank's CAMEL formula -- capital adequacy, asset quality, management efficiency, earnings performance and liquidity position.
That is, a temporary dip in earnings is unlikely to result in a change in the dividend, or cause management to make the difficult choice to payout earnings that should be allocated to growing the business, both of which would put downward pressure on the price of the stock.
Profits should show up in cash flow, earnings should be predictable, and management needs to be owner-oriented.
Excluding restructuring charges, management expects to report earnings of 47-51 cents per share for the current quarter.
Whatever the case, the decision on earnings forecasts should be left to management, not to Washington politicians or regulators.
Are sales and earnings better than expected and is management expressing optimism in private one-on-one meetings with these institutions that the investing public is not aware of?
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Who owns the earnings stream, shareholders or the management talent?
Unlike British banks, HSBC and Barclays, Allied Irish did not get a boost from buoyant investment bank earnings, with revenues from asset management, investment banking and wealth management all down.
It's still cheap at 15 times expected 2010 earnings, he says, but management has done an excellent job of investing in products with strong recurring revenue such as surgical stapling machines and single-use laparoscopic tools.
Management did note first quarter earnings will fall 15% to 20% on margin pressures and increased marketing costs.
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Sirius, meanwhile, won't be reporting any earnings per share anytime soon, so management desperately wants to avoid a reverse split.
Royce has almost two dozen analysts screening stocks for long-term value metrics such as historical earnings, revenue growth and longevity of management.
On Tuesday, shares sold off nearly 10% when management warned that revenue and earnings for the third quarter would miss earlier forecasts.
He notes that management on its most recent earnings call indicated it is seeking a way to tax efficiently dispose of its stake.
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