{"id":83157,"date":"2012-05-03T23:33:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mda-reports-rise-in-1q-earnings-drop-in-revenues\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T23:33:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:33:35","slug":"mda-reports-rise-in-1q-earnings-drop-in-revenues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mda-reports-rise-in-1q-earnings-drop-in-revenues\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA Reports Rise in 1Q Earnings, Drop in Revenues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-03-12] Canadian satellite firm <b>MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)<\/b> increased its earnings from operations in the first quarter of 2012 to $29 million, compared with $27 million in the first quarter of 2011, according to the company\u2019s latest financial results issued May 2.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;MDA\u2019s net earnings were $33 million \u2014 a modest increase from the company\u2019s $28 million mark in the first quarter of 2011.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;MDA\u2019s first-quarter revenues, however, dropped from $206 million in the same period last year to $172 million in the 2012 opening quarter. The company\u2019s funded backlog dropped to $765 million at the end of March 2012, compared with its $805 million backlog at the end of December 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The company said it paid a semi-annual dividend in the quarter that represented a 30 percent increase in the annualized dividend rate over last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-03-12] Canadian satellite firm MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) increased its earnings from operations in the first quarter of 2012 to $29 million, compared with $27 million in the first quarter of 2011, according to the company\u2019s latest financial results issued May 2. &nbsp; &nbsp;MDA\u2019s net earnings were $33 million \u2014 a modest increase from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}