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quarter

[kwawr-ter] / ˈkwɔr tər /


NOUN
25 cent coin
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VERB
divide into four equal parts
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Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet are expecting $19.1 billion in sales and $1.96 in earnings per share for the May quarter.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Campbell’s sales fell in the fiscal third quarter, driven in part by further declines in its snacks business, but said its profit rose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Standard & Poor’s, for example, waits until a stock has been publicly traded for at least a year and has turned a profit in four quarters, including the quarter prior to its addition.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

BNP Paribas analyst Stefan Slowinski wrote in a note last week that he expects Oracle to continue to lean in to its Bring Your Own Chip model that it introduced last quarter.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Then I’d give him a quarter, and we’d walk back to our bus lines acting like we didn’t know each other at all.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan




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