The carrier managed to grow earnings on strong smartphone adoption, but struggled to add postpaid subscribers in a saturated wireless market.
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Exxon Mobil Corp. managed to increase earnings slightly in the first quarter thanks to surging profits from its chemical business and lower taxes.
Google managed to grow earnings at over 95% annualized for the 5 year period ending in December of 2008, placing it in a similar group.
In 2010, the company managed to grow earnings by 7.7% but then they fell 30% in 2011. 2012 marked the start of a the earnings turnaround, however.
Lockheed Martin , one of the largest defense contractors in the world, managed to beat earnings expectations on Thursday in a difficult quarter and year, as government budgets and defense spending come under pressure with governments around the world trying to rein in spending.
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Quarter after quarter, Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) has managed to outperform both earnings and expectations.
It also suggests investors look for companies that have had to contend with falling prices for years and have still managed to generate robust earnings-per-share growth.
"We achieved a new sales volume record for a first quarter and we managed to keep revenues and earnings at high levels, " he said.
The bottom line is that Rackspace is a contender in a large and growing technology trend, with substantial competition, and has managed to maintain growth and earnings.
Despite the highly negative market reaction to earnings, Apple actually managed to increased its cash flow from operations by more than 33% over the same period last year.
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Wynn Resorts managed to deliver a wide first quarter earnings beat after the bell on Thursday.
In one of these, salaried workers and the self-employed have to contribute 12% of their earnings to health plans run by managed-care organisations similar to those in the United States.
Facing growing competition from a variety of lesser known, often lesser quality but often aggressively-marketed rivals, Nautilus has managed to beat analyst expectations in terms of earnings for more than a year.
Facebook managed to generate this positive news in an earnings quarter that has been tough on companies across the board, but particularly on technology companies like Google, Intel and IBM.
It managed through a big decline in commission revenues without its earnings falling apart.
The biggest surprise that Verizon sprung this earnings call was the number of postpaid subscribers it managed to add during the quarter.
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While Facebook managed to reverse post-market losses in the wake of its earnings release, Zynga and Groupon are down over the past five trading days.
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Ding noted that while investor confidence as a whole has be shaken over the past few months, the asset management until still managed to attract new money and contributed to the quarter's earnings.
This well-managed, leading-edge company is too cheap at 10 times 2012 earnings and 2.6 times revenue, with a quenching 3.6% dividend yield.
It is aggressive, gaining market share, well managed and growing nicely, yet sells at ten times my estimate of 2011 earnings and one times trailing revenue.
The computing giant has already weathered several quarters with surprisingly strong earnings, thanks in large part to its focus on services like managed data centers--which many customers are using so that they can replace expensive employees--and software as a service, which is seen as a thrifty alternative to traditional software.
Rather than just re-establishing its subscriber and revenue growth rates, Netflix now will have to deliver like other mere mortal stocks and establish a new uninterrupted earnings growth momentum record going forward, a difficult feat for a well-managed company, which Netflix has proven not to be.
Such numbers go far in explaining how it is that Groupon managed to overcome dashed investor expectations and suspicious prodding by regulatory authorities with its pretty amazing quarterly earnings report and why companies such as Google, Amazon and American Express, just to name three, are trying to horn in on the market that is widely believed to be oversaturated.
Sales were up 11% and earnings per share were up 15%--better than most stateside drug companies have managed.
Early adopters would likely be seen as proactive and well-managed, but some investors would need to be satisfied that management was not seizing a chance to manipulate earnings.
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