In the modern corporate environment, CEOs are taking the position that IT budgets must stay flat.
Meanwhile, even with economic and population growth, transportation energy demand is forecast to stay flat.
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Even if the multiple stay flat or even slides, the stock should rise on positive earnings estimate revisions.
As volumes stay flat or decline, Union Pacific can primarily drive growth via increased prices or an improvement in margins.
Even so, margins were down slightly from 9.5% in 2004 to 9.1% last year, and are expected to stay flat or dip slightly.
As you can see in the following table ad rates tend to stay flat for three or four years and then take a jump.
Yet with property in many places looking so overvalued, that could imply a long period of falling real prices even if nominal prices stay flat.
He sees revenue from televisions growing 20% to 25% from last year, even as unit sales stay flat, with consumers moving up to larger sets and digital pictures.
The problem with this reasoning, however, is that interest rates are at historically low levels, so they can move into two directions, either stay flat or go up.
With the retroactive raise they negotiated, it will take only until next spring at the latest for them to recoup their losses in cash, even if shares stay flat.
The market will stay flat if investors look around the corner and perceive a December 31, 2008 tax hike of 33% on capital gains and up to a 133% hike on dividends.
The segment is expected to stay flat for the next eight years, while white-collar services in education, health care and employee placement are predicted to add over 7 million jobs during the same period.
Most of the subprime loans or what they call exploding ARM loans, where even if overall interest rates in the market stay flat, the borrowers' payments still jump up, often 40 percent or higher after a couple of years.
Above, the average forecast of Trefis members for mobile phones EBIT margin for emerging markets indicates that margins will stay flat at around 12.5%, compared to the baseline Trefis estimate of a decrease from 10.5% in 2010 to 7.5% during the same period.
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Nissan expects its sales in Europe to stay flat this year but to rise 6% in Japan and 6.2% in the U.S. Ghosn aims to add 28 Nissan models and boost sales by 40% by 2004 while cutting costs by 15% and regularly posting an EBIT margin of 8%.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially flat, fell 1.6 percentage points to 19.0%.
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We expect revenue growth to be slow and gross margins to stay relatively flat since Yahoo!
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"Beverage stocks stay relatively flat, no pun intended, and cars don't do well either, " Tomkovick said.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially flat over the next months, fell 2.1 percentage points to 31.4%.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stocks will stay essentially flat over the next six months, rose 4.7 percentage points to 31.4%.
As the economy recovers, we expect profit margins to rise to around 18% by 2013 and stay about flat thereafter.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stocks will stay essentially flat over the next six months, fell 11.3 percentage points to 22.0%.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially flat over the next months, plunged 8.0 percentage points to 14.0%.
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Neutral sentiment, expectations that stocks will stay essentially flat over the next six months, rose 4.5 percentage points to 26.9%.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially flat over the next six months, edged down 0.8% to 26.8%.
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Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially flat over the next six months, fell 2.5 percentage points to 25.9%.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially flat over the next six months, rose 3.5 percentage points to 23.7%.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially flat over the next six months, declined 1.4 percentage points to 26.8%.
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Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially flat over the next six months, fell 2.8 percentage points to 27.0%.
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