"Kinect on Xbox 360 was a top performer at Target this weekend, " Nayer said.
Developing markets proved to be the top performer, reinforcing a common trend of this earnings season.
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It is not necessary in order to be a top performer in your sport.
To deny a reasonable increase to a top performer in the organization can be a very costly mistake.
The top performer in our Index was led by KB Home ( Eli Broad) with a return of 115%.
Their latest report shows that these top performers are actually less likely than average to continue being a top performer.
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You might be surprised to find your boss sympathetic--particularly if you're a top performer--because he or she is in a similar situation.
This year's top performer for the Invesco fund is Orchid BioScience, which makes biochips--microchips integrated with DNA molecules for use in genomic research.
Another top performer is miner Barrick Gold ( ABX), which grew earnings 59% in the most recent quarter, on sales growth of 34%.
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And the last one in particular, the new level of expectations about EVA performance going forward, is critical in determining whether a top performer remains a buy.
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Any single fund, however well stewarded, is unlikely to stay as the top performer for all times as investing styles come in and go out of favor.
Someone who works 20 hours a week and who delivers exceptional results on a pro rata basis should be eligible for promotions and viewed as a top performer.
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In addition, 28% said that if leaders of their firm learned that a top performer had engaged in insider trading, the leaders would be unlikely to report the misconduct.
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In other words, you would have had a better chance of picking a top fund by literally throwing a dart at a dart board than picking a past top performer.
When Bacanovic returned to the office, he took his assistant out for coffee and related the story of how in just a few short years he'd become top performer at Merrill.
Occidental Petroleum, the fourth largest U.S. oil company, is another top performer, posting an impressive earnings growth rate of 45.8% and ROE of 14.7% and pays a decent dividend that yields 2%.
In an example of that, shares of international luxury-brand apparel and accessories retailer Michael Kors (KORS) is the top performer this year in the consumer cyclicals sector as tracked by Morningstar, with a 79% return.
Look more closely, however, and you will notice that the financial sector, the worst-performing sector in the Russell large-cap companies last year with a (-13%) return, was the fourth-top performer in the small cap index, where financials returned (-3%).
For more than 25 years, her newsletter has been a top performer among letters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, turning in a 17.6% average annualized gain since 1995, and an 8.6 average annual gain since 2000 (compared with the Wilshire 5000's average annual loss over the past five years of 2.03%).
The totals were then averaged and an absolute ranking assigned. (Xtreme Labs works with eCommerce retailers but did not have to rank any of its own clients, the company says.) Among those favorability rankings, Walgreens finished first on Apple products and sixth on Android phones, while CVS placed second over iOS and was the top performer over Android devices.
Another top Kaggle performer is Alisson Azzolini, an artificial intelligence researcher from Brazil.
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Kennedy has been a top recent performer, and until this week his Big Cap Technology model portfolio was 90% short.
One of the things that I learned over the years was never to lose sight of a top fundamental performer even when it undergoes a bout of selling.
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Asking Congress to pass a budget before they receive their pay is closer to asking your top sales performer to show up to work every day in order to collect a paycheck.
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However, the Open University said if the focus is on the OU in Scotland, rather than the OU as a UK-wide institution, it is the top Scottish performer with a 94% approval rating.
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With a new leadership in place and its economy improving, investors have begun to gain confidence in the Asian giant, and in response to the significant flows, equities in China began to outperform other emerging countries, ending the year as a top-half performer in emerging markets.
Short-sellers have flocked to this stellar performer in an attempt to call a top to the stock's rally.
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