They pore over lots of them gross margin, operating margin, cash margin, EBIT and EBITDA margins, and on and on for clues about future profitability and shifting competitive positions.
Its cash flow margin was nearly 31% in 1997 --ten percentage points higher than international competitors like France's Lafarge and Switzerland's Holderbank Financire Glaris.
Instead of holding pledged stock in trust accounts for its customers, says the complaint, Credit Bancorp put the shares in cash or margin accounts, sold or borrowed against the stock and kept the proceeds, sometimes buying more securities with the money.
For those who need to come up with quick cash to boost their margin accounts, they may turn to the selling of their futures contracts as a way to raise the cash needed to replenish their margin accounts.
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Investors who borrowed to buy gold at higher prices could be forced to sell other assets to raise cash to meet margin calls demands from brokers that they produce cash to cover the reduced market value of their positions.
This desperation selling, coupled with non-negotiable demands from lenders for more cash in their margin account.
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The first signs of improving cash flow and margin expansion.
Chief Executive Charles Li is refocusing HKEx to take advantage of expectations that China will become a net exporter of capital as currency restrictions are relaxed, with growing commodities and fixed-income products to diversify away from low-margin cash equities.
The Fed flooded the system with cash by purchasing Treasury bonds and other securities from banks, crediting their margin accounts with cash.
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As a result, we generated solid gross margin and cash flow underscoring our strong operational execution during the quarter.
As asset managers smell opportunity at the margin of cash, it remains to be seen if the money market fund of tomorrow is, in fact, an exchange-traded fund.
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He contends that revenue visibility is improve, with U.S. and China capital spending growing, and Europe likely bottoming in the first half of 2012, and cost cutting driving margin and cash flow improvements, the time is now to get more bullish.
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If your broker borrows your stock in a cash (not a margin) account, he has to ask your permission -- and if anything goes wrong and he can't return the borrowed shares, his firm is on the hook to make you whole.
When equity prices decline steadily as they have been these last few days, margin accounts get restricted and in the worst case, if cash or stock is not deposited to meet margin requirements, sales can be forced by the brokers to pay for margin debt used to buy the stock.
This holistic strategy has enhanced both our margin profile and cash flow generation.
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It would have been nice to have cash on hand to meet margin calls, but Harvard had next to none.
If you meet your margin requirement with cash, the account will earn interest, but you won't see it: Your broker will pocket it.
Longer term, Kleinbard suggests keeping high-dividend-paying stocks in a separate, all-cash account that has no margin loans, thus keeping the shares off-limits to shorts.
Here, CAC is cost of customer acquisition, MRR is monthly recurring revenue and software margin is the cash they keep for each customer after accounting for support and other costs.
It is on the back of its about 80 million strong subscriber base that RIM has been able to continue generating cash through steady high-margin carrier fees despite reporting net losses for three quarters straight.
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Gold pulled back from its record highs this week when equities fell sharply Thursday, with several analysts at the time citing selling of gold to raise cash to cover losses and margin calls in equities and other commodities that were in a freefall.
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If my basic premise is right, the declining price will force traders to sell their commodities contracts to raise the cash to raise the extra cash needed to satisfy the higher margin requirements.
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"EA's challenges could not have come at a worse time, as the middle innings of a game cycle should be the glory days of operating margin expansion and significant cash generation, " Piper Jaffray analyst Anthony N.
If you want to profit by lending shares of a sought-after stock like NovaStar, you may have to first move them (or threaten to) out of your margin account into a cash account where the broker can't touch them without your permission.
Some likely were forced to sell to meet "margin calls, " or cash that brokers demand from clients to keep bets open.
We achieved broad-based margin improvement, while our cash flow and strong financial position enabled us to continue to return value to our shareholders.
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If you are small fry, the broker will insist that you put up the margin in the form of cash, which he will invest (and on which he will keep the interest).
Gross margins may be better, but sales will be hit, and the loss of gross margin dollars hurts earnings and cash flow. 1Q will probably be the worst quarter of 2013.
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In order to meet the margin calls, a suddenly cash-strapped Harvard has been unloading most of its stock portfolio at fire-sale prices--effectively throwing good money after bad--and selling IOUs bearing interest rates of up to 6.5%, meaning that hefty debt service now makes up a growing percentage of Harvard's budget.
Excluding a non-cash inventory provision, the company says gross margin was about 12%.
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