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These are the businesses that tend to earn the highest profit margins, and will sell nearly any product to their customers
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Being the cheapest may just give you low profit margins and poor quality
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With a higher profit margin you will have more to spend on marketing
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High gross profit margin (preferably greater than 65%) and net profits of 20% of sales or better before taxes
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Western Medicine is always ready to cut into the flesh or trying to control the illness with medications, extending their profit margins throughout the life span of their unsuspecting patients
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Cost estimations are derived by using the resource cost and infrastructure cost and contribution margin/profit margins and total cost is derived
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Predictable and Increasing Profits: Increase both profits and the multiple at which your value is created by developing steadily increasing profit margins
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I boasted about the fat profit margins in television, and he vowed to be part of that emerging industry despite his admitted first love for small-town newspapers
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The price of the product you are promoting will determine your profit margins
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Two years later, the company was bringing in $10 million a year, with a 50% profit margin
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businesses with healthy profit margins
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The profit margin, however, was much thinner
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The management were never satisfied with the profit margins, even though they had increased since their tenure
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of the region and the profit margin
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Even if you’re running a profitable business already, you should consider testing and tracking as a means to increase your profit margins
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It will not be their intent, but the profit margin within their companies is more important to them
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Too often, people thought their employer was looking out for them after they turned sixty-five, but as corporations experienced tough times in keeping up the huge profit margins to pay off upper management and the shareholders, they felt the only option was rolling back benefits
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perpetuating warfare, because the profit margins are staggering and the invoice
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That's because of their simplicity and profit margins
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Why do you think profit margins are so ridicilously
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A company that hires more people might have a lower profit margin, but the goal is to optimize
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result, and consequently reducing the farmer's profit margin by as
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load” discounts, which translate to a higher profit margin for the
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The result is a higher profit margin and a lower asset
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firms to compete in markets that have players with profit margins five to seven times as
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Year 2 has a higher ROE with more debt but a lower profit margin and asset turnover
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profit margin and assets to equity - the three components of the shortened form of ROE
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struggle to obtain a 4 % profit margin and never match Microsoft’s 20 %, but neither will
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company, and each will have respectively different asset turnovers, profit margins and
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profit margins sometimes entail more variation in sales and/or the use of retained earnings
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the profit margin by even two percentage points on a consistent basis would be considered
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case, even a one percentage point gain in profit margin would have earned the company
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terms of assets, but low profit margins, a firm can plan inventory levels and sales districts around asset turnover
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point would be the fear of potentially decreasing the profit margin, and that issue would
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However, such accessibility came with a price of its own: many of these companies were well managed and yet saw their profit margins
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assuming that L / S implies current liabilities and that profit margin is a five year average
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with less risk, but cuts into an already narrow profit margin
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In the latter case, the firm may have a profit margin
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higher profit margin, more retention, and increased business activity are all correlated
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These are yearly increases/decreases in operating income, sales, profit margin, the capital
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find a large difference in the return on equity factors like sales and profit margin as well as substantially different capital outlays; 13
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up the inherent pricing power that comes from higher profit margins and so they settle
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And Li can’t even pretend that we are fleecing Earth: we are shipping things at a low profit margin and have been for years
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with their profit margins further inflated by the temporary suspension by Tina of their rent payments
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feel is confidential to them and exposes their profit margins, so we have had to conduct a separate
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and supervision, few firms generate the level of profit margins that can cope
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Client acknowledges that Supplier will refuse to answer impertinent questions such as ‘What is Your Profit Margin?’ and ‘Which of Your Competitors Should We Also Send This RFP To?’
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We get the point, but it is noticeable that large-supermarket profit margins continue to increase, suggesting that much of the benefit that comes from the pressure on suppliers is not passed on
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“There’s been a slow erosion of the tax base, of profit margins, of straight up population in Wishful for the last twenty or thirty years
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If this low profit margin continues, the auctioneer needs to rethink his strategy and sell something more profitable
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savings and profit margins, as well as qualitative, subjective measures, such as innovation, market leadership, and cultural change
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This formula operates with a pretty high profit margin
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The solid way you’re operating will transfer to very good profit margins
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The only reason the American government allowed DDT to be banned was that the American chemical companies by then had found enough new overseas markets; that the American DDT market was no longer crucial to their profit margins
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You would have total conflict and chaos… each person would justify their profit-margins as reasonable, and attack any whose profit margin is greater than theirs as unjust
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What if everyone all over the Earth was only allowed an equal 3% profit margin? This would destroy the entire motive to get rich in the first place; because all the get-rich-quick schemes would either be illegal or disappear
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It would also destroy larger businesses that rely on larger profit margins in order to even exist
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No Wal-Mart could ever survive running on the slim profit margin of a mom-and-pop store
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No oil corporation could ever survive on a small profit margin
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The only reason they exist at all is because they do business by having an unfair profit margin… charging tens, even hundreds of times more for their services and products than smaller businesses do
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A fixed universal, equal profit margin would destroy any attempt to get rid of surplus goods at a reduced rate, because that would become illegal
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A three percent profit margin would not allow large corporate monsters like G
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Then the profit margin is lessened just enough so people start buying again… to give the seller the maximum return for their dollar
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The customer may curse and swear all they want; however, they have no choice but to pay whatever the price the Corporation chooses create as a normal price… which then automatically becomes a normalized as a higher normal profit margin
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The customer may curse and swear all they want; they have no choice but to pay whatever the price the Corporation chooses to create as a normal price… which then automatically becomes a normalized as a higher normal profit margin
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Why? Because it would destroy their huge profit margin
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Their profit margins would be reduced
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Civilized bloodsucking, called profit margins
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Profit margins were at stake for those who made a living by degrading, peddling and consuming natural resources
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Patent holders on the other hand have huge expenses in developing a new drug so often place huge profit margins in order to make this money back before the patent runs out, they don’t need to lower the price of their product as there is no competition as they are the only ones allowed to produce the drug
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If you miss a key item that needs repaired, it con cut in to your profit margin, or even cause you to loose money
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The profit margin was always high because nothing was bought unless absolutely necessary
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The only drawback of the equity markets is that you have to take into account external factors, such as management competence, tax situation, debt levels, and profit margins, which have nothing to do with the underlying commodity
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This information will help you better understand the company’s business and profit margins
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One of the most common questions I get asked about the oil-shipping industry is the following: What’s the relationship between the price of crude oil and oil tanker profit margins? As with many good questions, this one has no straight answer
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Additionally, OSG has one of the highest profit margins in the industry: a whopping 45 percent profit margin (2006 figures)
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The company has been operating on a historical profit margin in the neighborhood of 20 percent
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Profit margins are a good sign, so one should check whether they are as high as they were and at least as great as those at other similar companies, and whether the business is generating sufficient cash for its needs and ambitions
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That has helped to preserve profit margins and cash flow
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As it happens, the World War II period and the postwar boom were more beneficial to the smaller concerns than to the larger ones, because then the normal competition for sales was suspended and the former could expand sales and profit margins more spectacularly
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According to Value Line, throughout the 1990s, Emerson’s net profit margin and return on capital—key measures of its efficiency as a business—had stayed robustly high, around 9% and 18% respectively
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But from 1995 through 1999, according to Value Line, EMC’s net profit margin slid from 19
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After Intel established its dominance, its operating profit margins were double those of AMD
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The profit margins, both before and after taxes, remain constant
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The net profit margin is 8 percent; the return on equity is 16 percent
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These were growing, and profit margins were improving
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High profit margins are a positive mark; these make the company's earnings less vulnerable to changes in the level of sales
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And he is careful to make sure that all of the assumptions that are built into a present value analysis are reasonable and conservative: sales growth rates; profit margins; the market prices of assets such as oil, gas, and other fuels; capital expenditure requirements; and discount rates
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Perhaps it is a higher quality com pany, with better profit margins or lower debt levels
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Obviously, the businesses benefited also from the ability of management to create, or take advantage of, other resources, including having highly efficient manufacturing abilities (Toyota Industries); having the ability to make attractive acquisitions (Brookfield Asset Management, Wheelock & Company, and Investor A/B); having the ability to employ excess capital, that is, surplus-surplus, profitably (regional and community depository institutions); having the ability to access capital markets, especially credit markets, on a super-attractive basis (Brookfield Asset Management, Forest City); and having the ability to maintain profit margins during periods of increased competition and severe economic downturn (Japanese non–life insurers)
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Having the ability to maintain profit margins during periods of increased competition and severe economic downturn (POSCO)
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The brewing industry was viewed by many as poised for relatively rapid growth, because the progeny of the post–World War II baby boom were reaching beer-drinking age and because higher profit package sales, especially cans, were taking over from draft beer, which was generally a brewer’s lowest-profit margin product
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To determine if a business can raise prices, begin by looking at the Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) section found in the 10-K, and read management’s explanations for changes in the gross profit margin
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To do this, compare the gross profit margin to operating-income margin over a one- to five-year period
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There is a lot of judgment in terms of how to understand things such as the volatility of customer demand, profit margins, pricing power, and barriers to entry
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Also, you will not be able to get information from private competitors, but you can often turn to industry trade associations, which might compile a range of profit margins for an industry
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On the other hand, if the cost of supplies decreases, a business can either earn a higher profit margin or decrease prices to increase sales
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The first business generates a 1 percent net profit margin, while the second business generates a 10 percent net profit margin
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At first glance, which one would you prefer to invest in? Based on this information alone, most investors would prefer the business that earns a higher net profit margin
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A supermarket chain is content earning a low net profit margin, typically 1 percent, because it turns over its inventory very quickly