If you buy cheap, you leave yourself a large margin of safety.
They know that many products have a large contribution margin, and there is lots of room to compromise to keep from losing a sale.
Other examples of profligacy are too numerous to detail but suffice that SandRidge has, by a large margin, at over 7.1% of its market cap, the largest general and administrative expense ratio of all its peer group.
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Russia is poor enough and has stable enough state finances, it has by a very wide margin the smallest sovereign debt burden of any large country, that a government that is truly committed to achieving 6% GDP growth should be able to achieve that goal, at least for a good 5 or 6 years.
In fact, men have had a higher Buzz score than women for a combined nine months out of the past eleven, often times by a large margin.
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The company expects a large number of deals with low gross margin in the June quarter.
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Ahead by a large margin - receiving more than 70% of the vote - were food speculation funds.
No one, not even the Soviets themselves, knew exactly how much it cost but it was a large enough figure that the best estimates about the Soviet defense burden have a margin of error of around 2% of GDP.
They voted for Barack Obama over John McCain by a margin of more than two-to-one not as large as Mr Obama's margin among blacks, but of greater importance in states with lots of Latinos, which happen to include swing states.
A. won by a large margin in the North-West Frontier Province, one of the conservative areas bordering Afghanistan, and succeeded in forming a coalition government in Baluchistan.
President Obama wins biggest debtor honors, by a small margin over his predecessor, because of the combination of large outlays to fight the recession and tax revenues at the lowest level since the Truman Administration.
These partnerships are a very high-margin source of income and present opportunity to tap into large markets.
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And yes, we can then all go off and compare this with the Apple model which is to make as gargantuanly large margins on the hardware as possible and then still try to take a margin on the sale of content though iTunes and the like.
If a large part of that is debt, to be serviced in good and bad years alike, the margin of safety is slim.
That means he is turning his back on the kinds of large-scale seismic testing used to prospect for elephant fields--a high-margin business dominated by Schlumberger.
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