They sported high valuations on top of very high earnings, with profit margins at multi-decade highs.
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Investors should also check to see that revenue growth is keeping pace with profit growth.
After all, that decade ended with venture capital firms and their limited partners flushed with profit.
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The Street's current obsession with profit margins is what you might call an M.
There is nothing wrong with profit taking on stocks trading at all time highs.
Incidents abound of vulnerable children being whisked away with profit in mind rather than their wellbeing.
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Wall Street, ever mindful of their profit margins, responded with profit boosting managed funds and other more exotic offerings.
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What Apple gives up in profit margins, it may compensate with profit levels.
It has been hit hard with profit taking over the past few days, as it gapped below the 50-day MA on Thursday.
Likewise, rather than take out an interest-bearing loan, a business in need of financing might enter a musharaka, a partnership with profit-and-loss sharing.
Some pretty good evidence for the imbalanced value hierarchy with profit at the bottom was also present in what was not said, in what remained unspoken.
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Contrast all this with mid-teens multiples for major industrials like Caterpillar, Cummins and Boeing where the market anticipates a rebound in revenues with profit margin enhancement.
Even if brands are using an organization or cause with profit as the primary driver, the nonprofit recipients are using the brands for incremental marketing and development.
Profit in its Fossil Power Generation sector was the strongest, with profit up 10% to 407 million, as good project executive offset the lower new orders compared to a year ago.
With regulations, limited human and financial capital are being wasted on achieving compliance with profit-sapping rules, as opposed to all forms of capital being directed to their highest, most productive, and profitable use.
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The British Petroleum ( BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has blackened a few eyes on both sides of the Atlantic, but the energy sector is still loaded with profit potential for the astute investor.
Specifically, Aimia is able to identify markets with profit potential, find companies to acquire that give Aimia access to those opportunities, and acquire and integrate those companies in a way that produces cost savings and retains key people.
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" Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip open our mountain sides, blow out our stumps with giant powder, (and) dam up our water ways.
Unless, that is, there is never any moment at huge banks like UBS when book profit is reconciled with cash profit - so that all profit is only what is shown by the internal accounting system, even if some of the entries in that accounting system are fictional.
Once upon a time, gas and electric utilities could predictably operate with secure profit margins in a monopolistic environment, with steady revenue streams, and readily obtainable rate hikes to assure financial strength.
McNamee sees other great Google products with high profit potential like YouTube and Gmail, but none with the ability to replace the loss of their core search business.
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To turn to a specific, currently relevant example, if fixed-interest bonds are bad, but equity investments are acceptable, then what if an investor buys a non-voting equity instrument whose return is based on profit shared between him and the venture--with any profit above 6% given to the venture as a "reward"?
If a transaction purports to be designed to make a profit but suggests you should sign a representation that you are investing with a profit motive, get nervous.
Third-quarter net profit of KRW 157 billion (USD 138.57 million) with operating profit recording KRW 221 billion (USD 195.06 million) showed significant improvements from the loss in the same period last year.
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At the most opportune moment, and not more than several years after being acquired, each company must be sold to a willing buyer at a significant profit in order to return to investors their original capital, together with sufficient profit to provide for the carried interest to become payable.
If a transaction purports to be designed to make a pre-tax profit and even suggests that you should sign a representation that you are investing with a profit motive, get nervous.
With the profit she bought vegetables and more oil, and within a month she had (with more FXB help) graduated to her own stall in a popular market.
To compete with the profit-making companies for properties, the housing advocates are combining the benefits of their nonprofit structure with the financial flexibility that comes from operating a REIT.
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