profit-margins

Years of heavy sales incentives had gutted its profit margins, and the company warned a significant loss was likely that year.

The company missed Wall Street's estimates for both revenue and earnings and said it would have lower profit margins next quarter.

Letter volumes were falling by just a few percentage points a year, allowing sufficient cost savings to be found to maintain profit margins.

'It's fantastic, ' he said, but it's still unclear how the company will make money given its low profit margins.

UBS's regional head has given warning that its profit margins there could be depressed for a year or two amid fierce competition for talent.

The goal should not be to restrict business, to cap the size of companies or to vindictively cut profit margins.

He studied every product, its customers and its pricing, and found a way to finally widen profit margins on many products.

Dell, meanwhile, is trying to rebound from shrinking market share in PCs and tightening profit margins.

Mulally said he would produce cars that customers want at better profit margins.

The only way that companies can prosper in these markets is to cut costs relentlessly and accept profit margins close to zero.

Foxconn is already faced with thin profit margins, she said, and contracting companies share in the responsibility.

Profit margins become smaller and smaller now, large enterprise or a little better, SMEs would be out of the ordinary.

In 2002 it withdrew from seven countries, including Bolivia, which had poor profit margins, in a cost cutting exercise.

It's what I call the Goldman Sachs Effect: Goldman increased its leverage and its profit margins shot into the stratosphere.

For some analysts, this shows that strong demand is there if developers are prepared to reduce their often-fat profit margins.

Lenovo paid generously for its landmark acquisition and is now at the mercy of faltering top-line growth and squeezed profit margins.

One is the high profit margins you get from being the only company that sells the hardware linked to a good operating system.

Earlier this year, the company's executives expected memory-chip prices to rebound around August or September, reviving profit margins.

And therefore, the profit margins are going to be less than what we see in an Ebay type situation.

The measure of progress is a business measure: like the number of sales, profit margins, or cost cuttings.

At the end of last month, Nokia said it expected sales and profit margins for the current quarter to be well below its previous forecasts.

Profit margins tend to revert to the mean over the long term, in part because high returns attract new market entrants.

That's telling me there is going to be a nice little increase in profit margins, even on flat revenue.

Its profit margins have been shrinking, along with its market share and the average price of its phones.

Dell on Monday projected shrinking profit margins, and on Tuesday told analysts that companies continue to put off technology purchases.

But profit margins on foreign sales will improve and, with imports dearer, domestic producers will grab a bigger share of the home market.

Over time, competition should reduce profit margins and distribute benefits back to consumers and workers in the form of lower prices.

FedEx said it had record profit margins during the quarter.

Investors are fretting that rising steel sales may not be enough to burnish profit margins . . .

Now, like Heinz, which recently reported solid earnings, it's been able to increase profit margins as commodity prices fall.

System in the industry, because the profit margins and development prospects are not good, was the industry known as "sunset industries. "

Export enterprise's profit margins lower, and its face with its exchange rate risk was even higher.

FOR decades vaccines were a neglected corner of the drugs business, with old technology, little investment and abysmal profit margins.

That has squeezed profit margins more markedly than many analysts anticipated -- and is serving as a worrying sign for future earnings.

Its profit margins have been shrinking, along with the average price of its phones and its market share.

Rivals have begun to match the capability of its core products, driving prices and profit margins lower.

According the company policies, setting the yearly budget both in turnover and profit margins.

Behind the growth are the larger profit margins that private-label products offer retailers, says Paula Rosenblum, RSR managing partner.

In the face of the falling prices, H-P has tried to maintain its profit margins by putting the squeeze on suppliers.

GM's losses have since far exceeded that sum, whereas Nissan has notched up the best profit margins in the industry.

Well, you'll have to put in the computer our daily sales volume and profit margins and analyze them.

of any business marketing strategy must address two major problems, namely how to expand market share and improve profit margins.

Whether they are able to pass on those increases to consumers and maintain their profit margins (and sales) is the challenge.

In most product categories, hundreds or thousands of firms compete for domestic market share, leaving profit margins razor thin.

Well, times are getting tougher. Competition is fierce. Profit margins are so tight that we can't afford a single error. You know how it is.

We believe that the thin laminates market represents a significant opportunity for sales growth, and commands higher gross profit margins.

The DRAM manufacturers almost have no profit margins to speak of. Many of them suffered losses.

So one might expect a warm welcome for a technology that has consistently driven up revenues and profit margins. Not so.

However , earnings have been swollen by booming economic conditions, with current profit margins far above their long- term average .

As wholesale gas falls in price, profit margins expand, and station owners are in no rush to ratchet down the price at the pump.

That would make goods produced here even more expensive to export, and further erode what manufacturers say are already thin profit margins.

Meanwhile, Apple has seen its growth in the cellphone industry slow, though it has maintained its industry-leading profit margins.

One big Chinese auto retailer says it plans to increase its focus on used cars to help improve profit margins.

When he hired friends and gave too much to them, she helped him understand profit margins.

Profits might also be boosted through improved profit margins if intermediate goods are imported.

taking the pathway of petroleum refining-petroleum chemical engineering-coal chemical engineering integration to maximize profit margins.

So it's possible, once the initial outlay has been made, for the farmer to be looking at very good profit margins indeed.

Low interest rates are also painful for European banks that have large deposit bases, because profit margins on new lending are squeezed.

When a company is operating on the slimmest of profit margins as contract manufacturers are, soaring labor costs pose a serious problem.

Japanese firms, once market leaders, struggled to stay in the black due to razor-thin profit margins and volatile price swings.

Provided regulators do not allow banks to crank up their credit risks, profit margins on loans are restrained along with their volumes.

Until a few months ago profit margins were strong and refiners were struggling to meet high demand.

As demand slumped, respondents said their firms' profit margins sagged as well.

In Huawei's case, bidders would like to know about profit margins and agreements it has with other providers, sources say.

Commission rates were jacked up and , just like banks, operators were overly keen to extend credit to players . Profit margins shrank .

Profit margins are close to a 50-year high, relative to GDP, and thus seem likely to shrink.

Also, more importantly, the gap between US corporate sector prices and unit labor costs - a proxy FOR profit margins - is at 20-year highs.

The government says that price changes also take account of processing costs, profit margins and domestic supply and demand.

As companies look to expand production by opening mines in more remote parts of China, their profit margins could suffer.

But persistent over-capacity sets the stage for a gloomier prognosis: bargain-priced goods, squeezed profit margins and more unemployment.

the tight supplies have led to sharp price increases , bumping up companies ' costs and eating into profit margins.

But Marx also predicted a decline in profit margins in capitalism's dying throes, suggesting some confusion in his analysis.

More competition usually equals lower profit margins, especially when that competition enjoys favorable lending terms and low labor costs.

They tried to slow eroding profit margins by cutting operating costs, making packages smaller and raising prices.

Fewer restrictions spurred competition, squeezed profit margins and led to more risk-taking by banks.

Supervise price policy implementation to maintain predefined standards on profit margins and discount guidelines.

Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.

Companies that are defending their market share by increasing production risk much thinner profit margins, says iSuppli.

He noted that Chinese export companies have small profit margins and could be hit hard, setting off a potential wave of social turmoil.

Sometimes, the profit margins are better than in trafficking narcotics.

Due to declining sales and rising raw material costs, profit margins have been squeezed.

Will companies have to compensate their workers by raising wages, sacrificing their profit margins?

But surely Mr Shan has a point: how can profit margins increase when wages and raw material prices have been rising so rapidly?

Make sure the recent quarterly after-tax profit margins are improving and near the stock's peak after-tax margins.

But higher capital requirements should eventually reduce the riskiness of banks, cut into their profit margins and constrain bonuses.

In the meantime, new competitors are eroding incumbent businesses' market shares, with price wars whittling down their profit margins.

That is no small matter, since profit margins tend to have more influence over earnings per share than changes in revenue growth.

With net income still outpacing revenue, companies also are likely to enjoy further fattening of profit margins in the first quarter.

In the quarterly report, released by Boise Inc. in mid-August, company heads blame wood fiber costs for the local mill's low profit margins.

In other words, many colocation providers see power as an opportunity to add to their profit margins by charging for power.

In other words, many colocation providers see power as an opportunity to add to their profit margins by charging for power.

but lower employment strengthens the capital against labour and lets companies raise profit margins, even if revenues decline.

In another positive development, auto makers are reporting tighter inventories, which help to boost prices and profit margins.

That will make PC profit margins razor thin while driving up the demand for high-powered servers (with much better profit margins).

And HP has only one undisputed jewel: the business of selling replacement ink cartridges for its printers at profit margins of about 80%.

Mr Tse predicts that corporate profit margins will steadily rebound for the domestic producers and suppliers.

Export subsidies are generally not used explicitly but occur implicitly through changes in the profit margins of marketing boards.

As one would expect, therefore, profit margins have improved sharply since the mid-1990s (see chart).

The takeaway: Companies are raising the prices they charge, but their costs are rising even faster. That means narrower profit margins.

Profit margins were a casualty, as vendors cut prices to get ride of excess merchandise.

Real estate costs are squeezing profit margins enough that companies are starting to transfer increased costs to consumers.

Intel projected that revenue would expand further in the current period, with additional improvements in profit margins.

The emphasis on growth prompted some analysts to question whether Yahoo would relax its recent focus on increasing profit margins.

Some worry that many analysts aren't taking the lower margins into account and are overestimating future profit margins.

But with less aggressive monetary tightening, corporate profit margins will bear the brunt of higher input prices instead.

This strategy ensures that every dollar spent on enhanced information technology will help to increase our firm's profit margins.

Profit margins have historically been fat, growth prospects rosy and disruptive innovations rare indeed.

One is to protect the profit margins of a company's core business.

However, its profit margins far exceed those of its domestic rivals.

Consumer electronics companies, often with gross profit margins of more than 30 per cent, make an obvious target for this ruthless approach.

My profit margins have also increased owing to reduced costs (and) better management of resources, raw materials and finance.

State-owned companies have lower profit margins than their privately held competitors, the economists argue.

A sluggish economy and increased competition brought about by economic reforms are squeezing profit margins.

The increase in the quarterly contract price will either push up steel prices or dent steelmakers' profit margins.

Mopping up revenue from foreigners' profit margins, with few obvious ill effects, has to be good policy.

Smithers shows that 'there has been no correlation between U. S. investment and profit margins in the post-war period. '

Emerging-market companies are obsessed by finding new markets to make up for their slim profit margins.

In the existing social system and the macro-economic situation, rising personal income, corporate profit margins are declining.

Expensive and scarce capital translates into lower profit margins and market values, says Steven Romick, manager of the FPA Crescent Fund.

However, banks that are overpaying for new staff could suffer a sharp cut in profit margins if the market turns down.

As with all fashion, a big part of the price of luxury denim is in the multiple profit margins taken at each level of production.

The government tries to control drug prices and hospital profit margins but hospitals find ways around the rules.

Herfindahl coefficient have Positive total correlation to assets profit margins.

In a similar vein, UK private bank Coutts told its clients in the past week that U. S. profit margins may have reached their peak.

ComPeer also predicts a squeeze on profit margins in coming years as competition intensifies and new clients shop around.

Overseas subsidiaries have profit margins about one-third higher than those of domestic operations, according to the trade ministry.

The following weekend break axis, then the holding to be up, profit margins worth the wait!

Business has tended to become more competitive and profit margins have been reduced.

Despite its optimism, Intel's missing its target on profit margins tempered Wall Street analysts' enthusiasm.

Inflation also hurts stock prices by increasing input costs for companies and putting pressure on profit margins.

But if it cuts prices, it will shrink its profit margins.

PPR's French retail businesses have far lower profit margins and less promising growth prospects than Gucci Group and Puma.

Profit margins and returns on capital are the flip side of the labour share.

This leaves American manufacturers with three options: lose market share, cut profit margins or move abroad.

Profit margins were squeezed, and in real terms the stock market went nowhere for a decade.

The business robustness and the profit margins of the South Korea enterprises all boosted after the baptism of the financial crisis in 1997.

What is the company doing to maintain or improve profit margins?

These have lowered the cost of production in the US and improved profit margins.

But the companies' profit margins could shrink due to high start-up costs and the price of premium content.

In derivatives, increased standardisation should lead to higher volumes, offsetting the reduction in dealers' profit margins.

But Beijing's new fuel-pricing regime, which started in January, guarantees higher profit margins for refiners.

Manufacturers complain that rising prices of raw materials are also cutting into profit margins.

Most industries still have relatively strong profit margins and low debts by historical standards.

With so many companies competing for consumer's attention, price competing was intense and profit margins thing or nonexistent.

Obviously, such profit margins (approaching 100%) are not going to survive the flood of tablets due early next year.

This allows Little Sheep to charge different prices for prime and ordinary meat, improving its profit margins.

This is likely to have two important consequences. Profit margins are likely to fall and unemployment to rise.

He says the authorities are keen on outside providers, if profit margins are not excessive (ie, about half those in the West).

Just compare the stock performance and profit margins of the two industries.

Regional newspapers cultivated cosy monopolies and routinely enjoyed annual profit margins of more than 20%.

H-P has expanded its PC business's profit margins, but retailers have started selling its computers at sharp discounts.

Here, the profit margins are bigger than client-driven business, but so are the risks.

Others observe that the business has historically enjoyed profit margins of some 20%, double those typically earned by Big Oil.

Utilities' profit margins have been caught in a vice.

But industry experts believe profit margins are declining amid fierce competition.

Not only is infotech the index's most profitable sector, profit margins for most companies have been steadily increasing.

Gross envisions a "new normal" where growth is slower, profit margins are narrower and asset returns are smaller than in decades past.

But defending its strong position can cut into Unilever's profit margins, says Mr Mills, the analyst at Credit Suisse.

Chen rattles off a litany of woes: micro-thin profit margins, rising labor costs and soaring prices for raw materials.

A weaker pound, even with world trade in retreat, still cushions the profit margins of struggling exporters.

Store productivity is declining, sales per square foot are falling and profit margins are shrinking.

But China's price-sensitive mass market produces thin profit margins compared with many other countries.

Outsourcing and consolidation of design, engineering and R&D will cut costs and increase profit margins.

The yen's surge to record highs against the dollar has eroded profit margins on exports from Japan.

If people turn from pay-per-view or video-on-demand rentals to video streaming, Hollywood's profit margins will shrink.

The prices of steel, petroleum products and other raw materials have risen sharply, putting pressure on parts makers' profit margins.

High fuel costs and weak consumer demand already are squeezing profit margins, the finance chiefs said.

Instead, corporate profit margins have been rising.

But if demand isn't there, that creates excess capacity and lower profit margins for Chinese corporations.

Mr. Wang said his profit margins were low compared to the companies who offered genuine shopping bags.

AMERICA'S recession was cruel to capital and labour: both employment and profit margins collapsed.

The sisters decline to discuss profit margins, although Louise points out: "We're not working for free" .

One caveat: Moving into China's poorer areas may shrink profit margins as companies are forced to cut prices.

Mr. Buffett was uncertain that Lubrizol's profit margins could be sustained.

It could complicate H-P's supply chain and decrease profit margins on some products, the analyses suggest. '

High energy costs hurt consumer spending and narrowed corporate profit margins.

You can use all these resources to help expand your business and profit margins.

Higher funding costs are also squeezing banks' profit margins in the more vulnerable economies.

A bird in the hand, after all -- and Office is a bird that generates extraordinarily spacious profit margins exceeding 60%.

Some analysts believe that long-depressed profit margins in the world's largest beer market could start rising.

Carmakers are offering discounts in Germany and other countries to boost sales, but this will probably hurt their profit margins.

Profit margins are under pressure from high oil prices and, latterly, from a pickup in wage growth.

As costs decline, profit margins are widening despite a complete lack of pricing power.

A combination of slower overall growth and rising wage costs should squeeze profit margins.

Virtual goods have profit margins of 70 percent to 90 percent because they do not cost much to store, reproduce or distribute.

The company has 40% gross profit margins.

Pharmacists have retained their monopoly and continue to enjoy fat profit margins.

The needed rise in investment may be difficult to achieve when profit margins are falling.

The laptops start at $599, about double the price of comparable products, meaning higher profit margins.

Software firms typically make fatter profit margins than hardware firms.

You consider large volume commodity catalysts where often the profit margins are slim.

Apple delivers consistently higher profit margins than Nokia.

Dell believes that customization, rapid delivery and low prices can bring with them higher than the IBM and Hewlett-Packard profit margins.

The profit margins on premium jeans can be substantial.

For many exporters, profit margins are already razor thin, and raising prices could hurt business.

Software and services needed by companies hold the promise of even better profit margins.

That often led to burned out employees and low profit margins.

Given economic slowdown, the chances are that they will have to accept slimmer profit margins too.

if labour becomes more scarce, real wages will rise, at the expense of profit margins.

Sellers prefer to supply the heavier rare earths because profit margins are higher.

U. S. retailers will report declines in profit margins and their stocks will decline.

Casinos would ignore the junkets if they could: operating profit margins in the mass-market segment are about three times higher.

They have always had to do with relatively small profit margins.

Sinopec saw some relief when oil prices cratered, but the recent climb back toward $60 a barrel has erased its profit margins.

The falls will either push down steel prices or widen steelmakers' profit margins.

But when input costs suddenly jump, profit margins take a hit.

margin They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins.

The easy financing also gooses banks' profit margins and allows them to resolve bad loans with ease.

These obligations squeezed all banks' profit margins.

That has squeezed the profit margins of power producers and distributors.

The biggest is mounting competition from abroad that cuts profit margins.

Critics insisted they served only to maintain unrealistic profit margins.

It boosts consumers' real incomes and fattens firms' profit margins.

The crowding-out effect devastates not only individuals, but entire regions, that narrowly focus on profit margins.

Left to their own devices, companies in this position will often sacrifice the greater good for larger profit margins.

The US newspaper industry boasts daily sales of 55m copies, profit margins well into double digits and strong cash flows.

Just 15% of economists surveyed said their companies' profit margins were rising, compared to 44% who said margins were falling.

Price wars in nearly-saturated markets have mangled profit margins.

At the same time, retailers have been reducing inventories and slowing price markdowns, helping profit margins.

In the key industrial sector, corporate profit margins are now steady around 6%, the same level they have maintained for years.

Now, he says, CNH has to catch up with competitors, who make profit margins about one-fifth higher than next year's targets.

Rising fuel costs and fare caps enforced by Beijing have sliced profit margins.

The Silicon Valley chip giant posted revenue and profit margins for the period ended June 29 that were much stronger than the first quarter.

And that will squeeze profit margins.

It's a certainty that insurance-industry profit margins, including ours, will fall significantly in 2008.

Doing business on the iPad threatens Amazon's already thin profit margins.

In the past year, they have reoriented themselves to the domestic market via the Internet and both report far fatter profit margins.

They compete fiercely on price to earn small profit margins, analysts say.

Consider this: Last fiscal year, Sanyo's home appliances business had profit margins of minus 2%, while Panasonic's were above 6%.

Adjusting that tax could fatten profit margins without the need to raise fuel prices on consumers.

Many small companies operate on very narrow profit margins .

In fact, there's a modest inverse relationship between profit margins and the economic outlook.

"I started out selling yoga mats and now I'm selling a lot of makeup and cosmetics. The profit margins are higher. "

These typically have revenues of around $20m, 300 staff and profit margins five times those of ordinary BPO firms.

Rising material costs have eroded profit margins.

But its profit margins from selling devices will most likely erode.

They compete fiercely on price to earn small profit margins, analysts say. And they seek to benefit from tiny operational changes.

Under this model, you should expect good price discounts and achieve comfortable profit margins.

As product differentiation improves, and consumers rush to buy their favourite items, corporate profit margins start to improve.

If that happens, profit margins will inflate quickly.

The price wars may wipe out already-thin PC profit margins, which typically hover at 6%.

It also cut its forecasts for its outlook on earnings and profit margins.

Profit margins on bags are among the highest in the industry.

That is good for borrowers, but it also hurts banks' profit margins by reducing the "franchise value" that comes from expected earnings.

After deducting all costs Messrs Hofman and Kuijs reckon that profit margins have risen from less than 3% in 1999 to almost 6% in 2005.

Here's one: as revenues soar, profit margins are falling (see chart).

E-books currently have high profit margins, and are free from many of the drawbacks of print.

The move is a sign of the pressure on mining companies' profit margins from rising costs such as energy, labour, chemicals and steel.

The profit margins on most businesses are so small that you can not afford for those funds to go towards paying off debt.

Publishers are more anxious than ever to protect their profit margins, and now have some leverage in negotiating against Amazon.