{"id":17189,"date":"2012-01-05T13:05:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T18:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=17189"},"modified":"2016-09-20T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:10:31","slug":"screen-companies-with-huge-layoffs-over-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/screen-companies-with-huge-layoffs-over-2-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen: Companies With Huge Layoffs Over 2 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If margins are important to keep EPS up to the street&#8217;s expectations, it stands to reason that the companies that have cut costs the most should be in good shape. Of course that assumes that those companies are still bringing in a stable revenue stream.<\/p>\n<p>On a regular basis, the fantastic team that runs the screening over at Bloomberg, sends out ideas that may be of interest for further research. Last week, Constantin Cosereanu created a screen that looked for companies that have been hiring over the past couple of years. It got me thinking&#8230; Who are the companies that have been reducing headcount by the most over <!--more-->that same period.<\/p>\n<p>The results are below. Some of the companies listed are obviously not in very good financial shape. But, maybe there are a few that have cut costs down to the bone and will see a turnaround once (if) things pick up. It stands to reason that with costs low, their net income could soar.<\/p>\n<p>Just something to chew on ahead of the NFP report on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/emplyee-reductions-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17190\" title=\"emplyee reductions\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/emplyee-reductions-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"1327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If margins are important to keep EPS up to the street&#8217;s expectations, it stands to reason that the companies that have cut costs the most should be in good shape. Of course that assumes that those companies are still bringing in a stable revenue stream. On a regular basis, the fantastic team that runs the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-17189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-stock-screens","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}