Profits from the financial industry were only about 10% of the total profits on Wall Street in 1970.
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At some point the shrinking margin overwhelms the increased kit sales and total profits, thus market value, falls.
Whether total profits go up or not is therefore a result of the balance of those two factors.
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The Business Insider calculations are that oil and gas provides 51% of the top 500's total profits and 14% of turnover.
The dividend payout ratio is simply the percent of total profits that are paid out to shareholders in the form of dividends to shareholders.
But bond trading provides only a small part of total profits.
The new figures show that total profits as a share of national income has dropped sharply, from over 12% in 1997 to just 8% last year.
Mr Malone would not disclose what percentage the revenue coming into Surinam represented of the total profits made by Bristol Myers Squibb in the event of a new drug discovery.
Which happens in what proportion would determine whether low end additional models increased or reduced total profits: which is the point of the whole effort, to make the maximal profits possible.
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Revenue from audio products is down 13% and sales of video gear and TV sets are flat, pulling down overall profit margins--and total profits--by more than half in the past two years.
Pfizer also holds the top spot on the list of the most generous companies in America, which were measured by comparing total giving in cash and products during 2009 to total profits from 2008.
The data shows the average tax that a medium-size American company must pay or withhold in a given year, as well as measures of the administrative burden in paying taxes, equates to 46.7% of total profits in the U.S. compared with 42.7% in the OECD despite having less number of taxes to pay than its advanced economy rivals (11 for U.S. vs 13 different taxes for OECD).
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This should ensure that total annual profits remain at the same levels as last year, he said.
Office accounts for 56% of total company profits and offers vastly more features and functions than anyone uses.
In which case they might well be able to capture some goodly portion of the total available profits.
Although Europe contributed close to 40% to the total revenues in Q1 2012, it contributed less than 35% to the total operating profits.
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As a result, sales of used videogame products were 24.7% of fiscal 2007 (ended January 2007) sales, but represented 44.3% of total gross profits.
Greenberg said UST is dominant in the smokeless tobacco business, which is an expanding part of total tobacco profits and growing at 6% to 7% this year.
Non-Japanese operating profits at the top six houses have grown, on average, by around 20% a year for the past six years (see chart), and now account for roughly half of their total operating profits.
With this strategy, Hansa has roughly doubled its total assets and profits in each of the past four years.
Is someone going to object and say they prefer an economy where total wages and profits are subject to booms and busts?
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When the discussion turns to nominal targeting, we can say Nominal Gross Domestic Income Level Targeting (NGDILT) ensures that total Wages and Profits grow at smooth steady rate.
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Merck and Bristol-Myers are close behind in terms of total giving as a percentage of profits.
They use a forecasting model that relies, in particular, on the close historical relationship between company profits and two variables, total corporate investment in equipment and the commodity-price index published by The Economist.
For example, France would tax Total, the energy company, on the profits it earns in France but not on those it earns in Venezuela or Kazakhstan.
The only real bright spots are PlayStation--which contributes less than 10% of total revenue but a full one-third of profits--and Vaio computers.
Before the advent of personal technology, Hollywood enjoyed a monopoly on access and the obscene profits that came as a result of total control.
Wages, which make up two-thirds of total costs, typically move down only reluctantly, so profits take the strain.
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Taiwan companies netted 14% of all profits with just 1.54% of total sales.
Between 2003 and 2008, the corporation take rose on buoyant profits - particularly from banks - by a total 72%.
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