Volume growth in sales of these devices is well in excess of 20% a year, he figures, with particular strength in sales in the overseas markets.
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Further, analysts with Barclays Capital say there are signs of strength in Chinese auto sales.
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The bookseller said it saw rapid growth in content sales from its Nook e-reader segment and unexpected strength in its bookstores thanks to the strong sales of the trilogy by E.
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And auto executives said the strength in new-car sales is coast to coast.
Activision raised its fiscal 2012 guidance based on major product launches, strength in retail and digital sales, production efficiencies and cost reduction measures.
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Although overall confidence has remained largely unchanged since early July, responses in regard to current business conditions, sales strength, and investment in equipment and software have improved in recent weeks.
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Clearly there is progress on a lot of fronts--sexier products, new sales outlets, strength in servers and storage, better customer service.
The optimism is based not on an expectation of rapid or large increases in domestic sales, but rather on confidence in the continued strength of overseas market demand for Japanese products.
Kimmel screens for what he calls "magnet" stocks with high relative strength, increasing institutional ownership and accelerating growth in sales, profits and profit margins.
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.
In the U.S. a lack of job growth and poor home sales data confirm that the recent strength in the home market was a function of the U.S. stimulus.
Some analysts believe resurgent sales in the US and continued strength in Asian markets may result in Detroit's General Motors reclaiming the top spot as the world's bestselling carmaker from Toyota.
Collins focuses his investments on companies with strong recent growth in sales and earnings and exhibiting high relative strength in stock price performance.
Christian Stadler, associate professor of strategic management at Warwick Business School, described BMW's performance as comparatively "healthy", pointing to how its strength in the US and China helped to compensate for weak sales in Europe.
Coupled with high relative strength in the previous twelve months, a low price-to-sales ratio is one of the most potent combinations of investment criteria.
The Cabot Market Letter uses a combination of technical and fundamental analysis and focuses on companies with accelerating growth in sales and profits, along with high relative price strength.
The alleged chicanery served to falsify hundreds of millions of dollars in profit and sales to give a veneer of stability and strength to WorldCom, a wobbly amalgam of 70 acquisitions made over 20 years.
While there is more work to be done, we are starting to see stronger sales, additional shifts at plants, and signs of strength in the auto industry and our economy, a true testament to the resolve and determination of American workers across the nation.
And despite some strength in digital cameras and iPods, weak satellite radio results took overall personal electronics sales down 9%.
Dealers generated a roughly 15 percent sales increase in 2010 over the previous year, and the strength has continued, according to Sageworks.
Wal-Mart reported an increase in third-quarter profit Tuesday boosted by strength overseas, but a 1.3% decline in domestic same-store sales led revenue to come up short of estimates.
Meanwhile, Chrysler Group's U.S. auto sales rose 20% in April as the auto maker saw particular strength in its namesake brand.
That would dent economic growth in Europe where companies are already seeing foreign sales eroded by the record strength of the euro against the US dollar.
According to NPD Group, a market research company that tracks the toy and videogame business, board-game sales overall are up 9% in the last year on the strength of strong performance of the classic segment, which includes Monopoly.
This was however largely offset by sales in the U.S. which showed signs of returning to strength and the emerging markets in Asia-Pacific which showed a strong y-o-y growth of 12%.
Further strength in internet trading has been reported by Asos, the online market leader, which said sales rose 54% during the January-to-March quarter when compared with the same period a year earlier.
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Consumer confidence is rising along with sales among retailers in the U.S. that are counting on holiday spending to meet Q4 projections and gauge sales strength going onto 2011.
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