How to Use earnings in a Sentence

earnings

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  • The firm has slowed hiring, Coleman said in the Q&A portion of the earnings call.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Disney’s fourth quarter earnings were a mix of good and bad news.
    — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • In states where gas now costs at least $5 a gallon, that works out to 50 gallons worth of gas on the low end ad earnings.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 June 2022
  • The attorney wrote that her client also sold items such as candy on the streets for the church and turned her earnings over to IVM.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Since the markets have barely begun to price in a recession and so a fall in earnings, that would hurt.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 19 June 2022
  • Banks earnings are a good place to get an early read on how consumers are faring.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • Still, those earnings were down 1.7% from a year earlier.
    — Arkansas Online, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Average hourly earnings were up 5.1 percent over the past 12 months, a slight drop from earlier in the year.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2022
  • But in the end, the big news of the earnings report was a major change in direction on self-driving vehicles.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The company is set to report full earnings later this month.
    — Denise Roland, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Target and Lowe’s are set to report earnings Wednesday.
    — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Now, that number will increase to 225%, meaning borrower’s will be able to hold on to more of their earnings per month.
    — Solcyre Burga, Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • For Mulder there already have been over $2 million in NBA earnings.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2022
  • The hit to earnings from such deep discounting was unavoidable.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The government said in the September jobs report that average hourly earnings rose 5% in the past 12 months.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Rispoli, who also campaigned in the east over the past eight months, finished third behind Prat and Hernandez in purse earnings.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
  • The acid test is whether a company can maintain its profit margin - the percentage of sales that flows to earnings.
    — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Average hourly earnings climbed by 5.1 percent in the year through June, down slightly from 5.3 percent the prior month.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • Talkspace has been sounding the alarm about a potential slowdown since its August earnings call.
    — Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Meta shares dropped a further 20% in off-hours trading following the earnings report.
    — Salvador Rodriguez, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Idol shed some light on the unstoppable ascent of the price of luxury goods a few weeks earlier on the firm’s earnings call: the resale market.
    — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 12 Sep. 2022
  • After that, the company was able to bounce back quickly, even setting an earnings record in 2010, Chapman said.
    — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Its top line was in line, but earnings were slightly below our estimates.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • And there was some skepticism from analysts during the earnings call.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Average hourly earnings rose 4.7% over the past year, well below the inflation rate and a decline from 5% year-over-year wage growth the previous month.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Excluding certain items, earnings will be $2.45 a share at best, Qualcomm said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Adjusted earnings are expected to come in around $3.15 per share.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2022
  • In quarterly earnings calls this spring, over 180 firms cited the Shanghai lockdown as a drag on their businesses.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • And corporate earnings are expected to slow in the second half as recession fears loom.
    — Hannah Miao, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Hourly earnings were also up an average of 4.7 percent from the previous year.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 5 Nov. 2022

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