If Dell can string together a few quarters where the revenue growth cadence points to long-term growth of 4-5% and gross margin holds up, then we expect the valuation multiples to rerate higher.
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In the hands of the right management, properties like these can sustain income growth several points above inflation over a generation or longer.
That year Calamos Growth earned 36 percentage points more than the average midcap growth fund and has beat its category ever since.
In the 18 earlier crises, the average drop in output growth was two percentage points and it took two years for growth to return to normal.
"Subdued actual export growth in April points to sluggish global demand, " said RBS economists Louis Kuijs and Tiffany Qiu in a report.
While the tough environment is projected to slow Home Depot's sales growth to 2.8% this year, following a five-year run that saw the company average 11% growth, Trott points to a growing supply business and promising opportunities in China as big reasons for optimism.
Bloomberg consensus growth forecasts have been cut by 0.6 percentage points since mid-2012 and our economists have revised down our forecasts for U.S. growth by 0.5 percentage points for quarters two, three and four this year.
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The federal government said Friday that consumer spending contributed 1.42 percentage points to GDP growth, and government spending added 0.71 percentage points.
Thanks to its monetary and fiscal stimulus, domestic demand has contributed an incredible 12 percentage points to GDP growth this year, while net exports subtracted almost four percentage points.
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Ms Farrell estimates that formalising the informal sector could add 0.8 percentage points to Portugal's productivity growth, and 1.5 percentage points in Turkey and Brazil.
Researchers believe that growth patterns during various points in early life could well play a role.
So deficit reduction of one percentage point could knock up to 1.7 percentage points off growth.
At the same time, inventory investment slowed, subtracting 0.4 percentage points of growth from both the first and second quarters.
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GDP's-worth of fiscal expansion throughout the region, including China and Japan, would boost growth by two percentage points in the crisis countries.
Goldman Sachs reckons that the spillover of European stress into American financial markets will knock 0.2 to 0.4 percentage points off growth this year.
The liberal Economic Policy Institute puts the damage from payroll tax hike alone at 0.9 percentage points of growth and more than a million jobs.
Experts assess that opening the Mexican oil industry to global investment will revive Mexican oil production and boost Mexico's economic growth by potentially 2 points a year.
They crunched these numbers and concluded that debt in excess of 90% of GDP results in economic growth approximately 2 percentage points less than for countries with lower debt ratios.
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The Congressional Budget Office, which lumps the payroll tax cut with extended jobless benefits in its analysis, has warned that eliminating both would cost the economy 0.7 percentage points of growth and 800, 000 jobs in 2013.
As shown in the first chart below, there are only a couple of times when housing contributes 1-2 percentage points to growth, the most notable being the post-war period of rapid household formation by returning war veterans.
In any case, the flagging growth all the more points up the need for Web publishers to come up with better ways to attract the brand advertisers that still spend 95% of their budgets in traditional media.
In a much-cited study in 2005, for example, Leonard Waverman of the London Business School found that an extra ten mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country added 0.6 percentage points of growth in GDP per person.
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We also know that the Bank of England, among others, believes the Jubilee will have knocked around 0.5 percentage points from growth in the second quarter - and then boosted the third quarter by a similar amount as companies make up the lost output.
And those economies are catching up at a faster rate: average growth in GDP per person was 3.3 percentage points faster than America's growth rate in 2000-07, more than twice the difference in the previous four decades.
The company said the moves will trim revenue growth in the November 2012 fiscal year by 4-5 percentage points, resulting in annual revenue growth in 2012 of 4%-6%.
Barbassa notes that generally sales of oil products lag GDP growth by a couple percentage points.
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The reaction to the events of mid-September could knock a few points off economic growth.
Sandy added 40 basis points to that growth in comparable store sales, management says.
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This suggests that a 10% drop would shave some 0.6 percentage points off economic growth.
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The decrease in government spending and business inventories subtracted 1.6 percentage points from GDP growth.
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