In the last decade, they launched a series of mega-blockbusters, which ensured massive and fast-growing profits.
In other words, investors had to pay less of a premium to buy companies with growing profits.
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This prediction is awfully pessimistic for a company that has consistently been growing profits for over a decade.
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"Look carefully at the economy, and you will see that the main props for growing profits are not going to be here, " Levy junior says.
There is, however, a good chance that the market will slowly begin to revalue the company for what it is: a retailer with a lot of cash, a competitive edge and, if all goes as planned, growing profits.
While they have both announced seemingly ever-growing record profits, Sainsbury's has seen its slide on disappointing sales and an ongoing restructuring drive.
Retail banking, automobile dealerships, hospitals, with Lexmark's sales and profits growing with each industry it conquered.
With profits growing only slowly in the saturated credit-card market, the debit card looks like the next goldmine.
She also said the company in the long-run should be a GDP-type growth company, with profits growing faster than revenues.
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Oberweis buys companies growing sales and profits at least 30% per year and generally holds them until the growth rate decelerates.
Corporate profits keep growing despite the oil inflation that was supposed to roil business.
Anheuser-Busch's rival Miller was growing aggressively, its profits were slipping and its stock price was sagging.
He said consultants would be paid to carry out the work amid growing concerns about falling profits.
Such low tax rates will be true of any company whose profits are growing quickly using that calculation method.
Its revenues and profits are growing less than half as quickly as Oracle's, and its share price has been lagging.
The company has been on a tear, growing revenues and net profits at 40% annually on a compounded basis since 2004.
By contrast, big data players such as Epsilon and Acxiom are growing their revenue and profits faster than Nielsen, Arbitron and Kantar combined.
Greenberg said UST is dominant in the smokeless tobacco business, which is an expanding part of total tobacco profits and growing at 6% to 7% this year.
But as the company has successfully grown its user base in the past few years, it is now looking to focus on growing its revenues and profits as well.
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The whole process, a symbol of the conformity prized by Japanese society, is a relic from the balmy days of the 1960s, when profits were growing and labour shortages were common.
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When it came out that the company is still growing, but that profits per share were 2 cents less than projected for the quarter, stocks plummeted by 11% on July 27th in after hours trade.
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Obviously, this can be done by growing the business and the profits being made from it.
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Profits have been growing faster than revenue, as the company clamps down on expenses.
It is hard to see how profits can keep growing at a double-digit percentage rate.
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Profits have been growing on a year-over-year basis, and they have also been coming in ahead of expectations.
Although profits are still growing for both banks, 2012 was their slowest annual growth rate since each went public.
Hon Hai Precision Industry, a major assembler of Apple products, has posted record quarterly profits helped by growing demand for iPhones and iPads.
Corporate profits there are growing, even as labor costs are rising.
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Mongolia's parliament approved a new law that caps future foreign participation in certain strategic industries, reflecting a growing public push to keep profits from the mineral-rich nation's industries inside the country.
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