Instead, he borrows funds or enters into a forward sales contract to provide cash for the first few years' payout.
It's possible stores merely pulled forward sales that would have happened anyway.
It's possible that all those car and truck sales just pulled business forward and vehicle sales will stop when the zero-percent money stops.
It's possible that all those car and truck sales just pulled business forward and that sales will stop when the zero-percent money stops.
With an increasing number of organizations looking to equip their employees with these devices going forward, printer sales could decline considerably.
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Incentives tend to bring sales forward rather than to create new business.
But in the past five years Abaxis has bolted forward, its sales expanding at a 23% annual clip, its earnings per share an astonishing 94%.
Citing a dramatic drop in home sales after the credit expired, economists say it did little more than pull inevitable summer home sales forward and delay a recovery.
The heart not only beat in the first quarter from pull-forward weather related sales in the U.S., but from structural factors globally that raise the prospect of Wal-Mart shares moving higher in the medium-term.
Our price estimate still stands above the current market price as we believe that Best Buy will be able to adjust and grow its sales going forward.
But 126 years after its birth, Coca-Cola is still pushing forward in terms of sales, with strong growth - especially, it says, in the emerging markets of India, China and Brazil.
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While the drug exhibited double-digit growth in the last couple of quarters due to its use in triple-combination therapy, patients are going off the therapy, and this should result in declining sales going forward.
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Macroeconomic concerns, primarily related to the European debt crisis and continued economic weakness in the U.S., have resulted in a decline in industrial demand for steel as companies are bracing for slower than estimated sales going forward.
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"If we couldn't muster good sales during the holiday season, that doesn't say much good about sales going forward and how that will translate into demand" for store space, said Ryan Severino, a senior economist at Reis.
Pending Home Sales is a forward looking indicator for the housing market as it is based on contract signings, as opposed to deal closings, so any reported increases often suggest better days ahead for housing.
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That's above PepsiCo at 3.2 times sales and 26 times forward earnings, even though Coca-Cola is struggling to approach the 6% growth rate of Pepsi's worldwide beverage business, let alone Daft's stated goal of 7%.
Going forward, however, burgeoning emerging market sales of low- and mid-end smartphones will have an impact on margins as the developed markets gradually become more and more saturated.
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Smallwood said that sales would level out moving forward.
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But the days of robust defense increases and big new program starts are over, so the only way contractors will be able to generate sizable gains in the military space going forward will be either by increasing overseas sales or stealing domestic market share from competitors.
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Going forward, we expect global Mercedes-Benz sales to exceed 2.1 million by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
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With the new millennium just days away, one would think that cards with a similar forward-looking and contemporary feel would be dominating sales.
Going forward, we want to be known for having a sales culture.
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We expect Xbox sales to continue to see a decline going forward, until Microsoft launches the next version of the Xbox, presumably in 2013.
Although this has boosted sales, it has largely done so by moving them forward (at no small expense to taxpayers).
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However, Scotts said it looks forward to strength later in the year, and anticipates 6% sales growth from its Global Consumer and Scotts LawnService segment in fiscal 2012.
To do this, American Eagle plans to double its outlet stores and increase direct-to-consumer sales initiatives that stand to increase cash generation going forward.
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Gap is looking forward to reduce its reliance on the North American market, where the sales are declining, by increasing its presence in the developing countries.
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Dell's biggest push, going forward, is an effort to move the company past the direct-sales model pioneered by its founder (see " The Second Coming").
The company has expressed some caution going forward, voicing concern that a more competitive pickup truck market could crimp ambitious sales goals for the Toyota Tundra.
Morningstar pharmaceutical-industry analyst Damien Conover estimates that Pfizer can expect generic competition to undercut gains from new drugs, to the point that sales will grow by just 1% a year on average going forward.
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