“The company's excellent financial performance, including 16 consecutive quarters of revenue and profit growth, and the successful expansion of its retail and wholesale businesses, has not been reflected in our recent stock price performance.”
Charles Koppelman
“Money is not the root of all evil, it is the fruit. Humans are the root.”
Rain Bojangles
“(Cummins) had higher revenue and slightly lower profitability for the quarter, but even so it's a very fine quarter. Without the tax benefits, the company didn't match expectations or match up to the stock's performance of the past few weeks, which has apparently disappointed some on the market.”
Eli Lustgarten
“Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.”
David Orton
“Booming internet revenues and profits with improved market positions for our Fairfax Digital news and classifieds franchises, a solid performance in New Zealand, continued growth in business publishing and our regional newspapers ... with tight cost controls in a cyclical downturn have all resulted in solid profit growth.”
David Kirk
“We had another strong record-breaking quarter in terms of both revenues and profits. We're very, very pleased, ... This is traditionally a slow season for Internet properties so this momentum shows that, at least from my perspective, we are effectively connecting with our users and our customers.”
Eric Schmidt
“Yahoo's revenue in the quarter was just below consensus, with profitability lagging further behind.”
Heath Terry