In earlier years, meanwhile, both husband and wife collect some Social Security based on her earnings history.
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When I look the earnings history, I see the company has not had an easy go of it.
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It contained a summary of my earnings history and estimated retirement benefits at various ages, and showed me those figures.
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Companies with no earnings and not much history of being in business became moon shots as investments, or more properly speculations.
Here's a company with good managers, a long history of earnings growth and timely products in hot markets, such as wireless and Sony PlayStation 2.
Rockefeller, who became one of the richest men in history with the earnings from Standard Oil.
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The company has a long history of positive earnings surprises, averaging about 6.8% for the last 11 quarters.
Historically, Amazon has a shaky history in the earnings limelight.
He likes companies that have a lengthy history of steady earnings growth, and, in most cases, the model I base on his philosophy requires companies to have posted increasing earnings per share each year for the past ten years.
Of the three, Google has consistently projected upward earnings, and investors have a long history with Google, as they do with Apple.
Relative to recent history, DRS' multiples of earnings, sales and book value all stand below their respective five-year averages.
Through their own ingenuity, access to capital and often oligopolistic hold on lucrative markets, they have enjoyed one of the greatest accumulations of wealth in recent economic history, even amidst generally declining earnings, rising poverty and inequality among their fellow Americans.
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However, Apple does not have a history of disclosing such information in an earnings conference call or in an quarterly report.
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In particular, I mentioned that the absolute valuation of emerging markets versus its own history looked cheap and the discount on forward earnings valuations had widened out between the developed world and the emerging world, and that both of those provided a really powerful valuation argument.
Unfortunately, history has repeatedly illustrated the folly of using forward-earnings estimates, which are typically over-stated by anywhere from 10-20% on average.
Therefore, I want to see a history of sales and profit growth along with stable to rising earnings estimates.
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This next earnings and price correlated graph on Target reveals only the last four years of history, and the current year we are in.
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In fact, over the past three years Deutsche Bank has deliberately and dramatically reduced its dependence on risk-taking as a source of operating earnings, while enjoying more substantial progress with clients than at any time in its recent history.
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