“Kodak plans to achieve top-line growth of 8 to 12 percent by 2004, ... That's an important part of achieving our average annual earnings per share growth target of at least 10 percent, over time.”
“What is happening is a little like what happened in the 1920s, the period where demand growth was quite strong but supply growth was even faster. You had new technology then, it was electric power. Now its computing power.”
“The spending growth is impressive, but shouldn't come as too great a surprise. These dazzling increases are possible in part because growth came from such a small base. And in the last few years the Internet has truly become a mainstream medium.”
“We sold off the securities to improve our margins, as well as absorb the other expenses, to better position ourselves for growth in 2006. We are focused on managing our balance sheet and slowing the growth of non-interest expenses.”
“If you look at their sales guidance, it implies not a lot of growth in most of their categories. It looks like there will be less than an average 1 percent sales growth in most of their brands and there are too many unanswered questions about their ability to execute.”
“In the belief that this purveyor of authentic brands and unique styles will continue to deliver annual earnings growth of at least 30% helped by comp growth, new-store expansion, and operating margin gains, we reiterate our 'outperform' rating.”
“What's been driving the valuation has been an expectation of really strong applications revenue growth. At this valuation, we were expecting at least 57 percent application revenue growth, but we got only 42 percent.”
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
“This was much better than expected, and Nokia showed strong growth in market share.”
“It's a cash machine. The company is well positioned for growth in Latin America and Asia.”