Downside risk is low as the valuation already implies a permanent 54% decline in profits.
Downside risk is low as the valuation already implies a permanent 35% decline in profits.
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The moves were announced Monday, the first business day after Citi announced a 25% decline in profits for the fourth quarter.
This represented a 5-percent decline in profits compared with the previous quarter but was up from the corresponding quarter of 2011.
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German export numbers came in lower than expected, and ING, the largest Dutch financial services company, reported a 22% decline in profits.
In other words, market expectations, as reflected in the stock price, are for the company to experience a permanent 54% decline in profits.
My response is that even if all of those things happen, it is highly unlikely that INTC will experience a 30% permanent decline in profits.
As far as NBCUniversal is concerned, it is the cable networks and broadcasting business that matter, and they saw a decline in profits due to higher programming costs and lower licensing revenues.
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Not only is the market not giving SanDisk any credit for growth, it is docking the stock with a 35% decline in profits with no potential for growth from that depressed level.
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But that was 2009 and this is now: Oshkosh disclosed in late July that results for its fiscal third quarter had deteriorated markedly from the year-earlier period, driven down in large part by a 35 percent decline in defense sales and a 63 percent decline in defense profits.
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But Bank of America reported a decline in quarterly profits after it took another financial hit on bad mortgage debt.
This shift would likely lead to a decline in gross profits for agencies, or for profits to even be eliminated altogether if agencies are asked to work at cost.
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The decline in PC sales means a decline in revenues and profits, but the problem is actually bigger.
In April, Shanghai Dajiang, one of China's largest producers, announced a 40% decline in its 1996 profits.
Like almost all big companies it suffered a decline in sales and profits in the recession and had to lay off some staff.
The materials sector, including metal and mining companies, lagged all industries with a 55% drop in profits and 19% decline in market value.
"In the mining sector, the recent sharp decline in commodity prices has caused profits to deteriorate significantly, such that miners are now spending more in capital expenditure than they are earning, " Credit Suisse analysts Damien Boey and Atul Lele said in a note.
She says the company expects a decline in both revenue and profits in FY 2012.
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He also blamed rising costs of raw materials and the strength of the yen for contributing to the decline in the overall Bridgestone profits.
JPMorgan Chase reported an 84% decline in third-quarter profits Wednesday, burdened by costs for its late-night purchase of troubled thrift Washington Mutual and its own exposure to deteriorating consumer mortgages and other loans.
That's a tribute to Ford's new cars like the Ford Fusion and Lincoln Zephyr, but the decline in truck sales will hurt profits.
Only the work horses of servers and its operating system software hold their primacy, but with computer hardware shipments in decline, even software profits could be challenged.
When many retailers are seeing a rise in sales and profits, Wal-Mart is experiencing a decline in U.S. same-store sales.
China is one of Yum's biggest markets and the firm warned that its profits may decline further in 2013.
The company has watched its net profits decline by 72 percent in the latest quarter, and now faces competition not just from Apple but from other Asian rivals as well.
As I have previously written, the increased demand for disk drives for cloud and network storage is not likely to produce enough new profits to offset the decline in the PC market.
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At the same time, a sharp decline in the Japanese currency has also helped lift profits.
Lockheed currently forecasts sales and profits from this segment to decline in single-digit percentage range in 2013, compared to 2012.
The potential reward of not only keeping profits already made in a rally, but going after more profits from the subsequent market decline, made buying and holding through whatever comes along even less attractive .
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And they see banks and some large corporations raking in record profits while wages stagnate or decline.
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