He opted for a dead rent, one not figured as a percent of sales volume.
All five are fabulously profitable as measured by EVA margin (economic profit as a percent of sales).
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But sales were 52% higher and gross margin as a percent of sales surged to 49% from 19% in the year ago period.
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To evaluate a company's innovativeness, they looked at such factors as research and development as a percent of sales and the number of patents.
The cable billing runs an operating margin (net before depreciation, interest and taxes, as a percent of sales) of 11%, versus 30% for fund servicing.
To evaluate a company's innovativeness, the economists looked at such factors as research and development as a percent of sales, and the number of its patents.
One obvious caveat to these stats is that if sales are decreasing for one of these industries, then even an increase in advertising as a percent of sales would still result in the same total advertising budget dollars.
As a percent of net sales, gross profit was 20.7 percent compared to 22 percent for the fourth quarter of 2010.
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As a percent of net sales, gross profit was 18.8 percent compared to 19.8 percent for the third quarter of 2011.
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As a percent of net sales, gross profit was 18.8 percent compared to 20.7 percent for the fourth quarter of 2011.
Operating margins as a percent of consolidated sales improved to 3.2% from 2.7% a year ago.
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This would cause the Outdoor and Action Sports Coalition to become even larger as a percent of total sales.
The U.S. edition of Elle achieved a 9.8 percent increase in sales of ad pages last year, and more than a 12 percent gain in ad revenue, according to the Publishers Information Bureau.
In 2012, PPR said it continued its expansion in rapid-growth markets where revenue advanced 13.7 percent on a comparable basis and accounted for 37.6 percent of sales, representing a 100 basis-point increase on 2011 on a comparable basis.
While total sales of passenger cars in China increased by 8.6 percent during the first seven months of this year, luxury car sales increased even faster at a 36.1 percent rate, and sales of large SUVs increased by 23.2 percent.
Yet in July, Chrysler posted a sales increase of 13 percent for its best sales in the month in five years, before the Great Recession.
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Online sales increased 30.3% over last year but social media generated just 0.41 percent of all online sales that day, a decrease of more than 26 percent from 2011.
Costco Wholesale (COST) this morning reported that same store sales increased by 7 percent in December, missing analyst forecasts of 7.6 percent, largely a result of a drop in online sales.
Business inventories increased a seasonally adjusted 0.4 percent in December and were up 7.7 percent from a year earlier, compared with sales increases of 0.7 percent from November to December and 8.9 percent from a year earlier.
The Display Panel Business recorded an operating loss of 90 billion won on revenue of 7.08 trillion won, representing a decline in sales of 13 percent compared with the same period last year.
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The agreement allows Actavis and its partner Egis Pharmaceuticals, to begin selling a generic copy of Crestor in May 2016, and Actavis will have to pay AstraZeneca a 39 percent royalty on net sales until the end of pediatric exclusivity in July 2016 ( read here).
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According to Wacom, its share of the global pen tablet market stands at a whopping 85 percent, and its sales of its components for use in smartphones and tablets have nearly doubled from 2011 to 2012.
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Buick traditionally never attracted more than a half percent of its total annual sales from buyers 29 and younger.
And then if you add up all those trade credits that are spent, a full 17 percent of new software sales at GameStop are funded by trade credit.
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Apparel was the biggest winner: shoppers referred to online stores through social networks generated a 2.2 percent of all sales in August, an increase of more than 113 percent over 2011.
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The SIIA white paper also shows how suspected pirates are using Internet auctions to turn better than a 90 percent profit from sales of illegal software products, and how they are reaching thousands of new customers with little effort or cost.
It should be noted that international sales accounted for a whopping 46 percent of this quarter's revenue, and Mac computer sales managed to shoot up some 17 percent compared to the year-ago quarter.
The increase was the result of an improved sales mix, partially offset by a 3 percent decrease in volume of carats sold during the quarter.
We expect operating income as a percentage of sales to be in the mid to low-forty percent range depending on sales.
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The National Association of Realtors is reporting a 3.4 percent increase in existing home sales in April to an annual rate of 4.62 million units, which is better than economists expected.
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