The graph below shows that the average margin fell to a low of 3.12 in 2009 but has trended higher since then.
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According to SimpleTruths.com, at the Indy 500, the average margin of victory for the last 10 years has been 1.54 seconds.
But the 2011 team got really hot in the playoffs, with an average margin of victory in those games of 14 points.
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The average margin on total sales will fall, but performance actually has improved and shareholders are better off because the company has earned a higher economic profit.
The Knicks (39-26) dropped games at Golden State, Denver, Portland and the Los Angeles Clippers by an average margin of 20 points, but salvaged the last game of their trip with the victory over the turnover-prone Jazz (38-27).
Notes: The Pacers are 4-0 at home with an average victory margin of 16.5 points.
These events have an average profit margin of 83% and account for nearly three-quarters of contributions.
The top 10 techs in the market are sporting an average profit margin of nearly 26%.
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At No. 1: offices of Certified Public Accountants, with an average pretax margin of 16.5%.
The weighted average dumping margin is 0 and thus there is no dumping.
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Retailers overall in 2012 generated an average gross margin of 30.4 percent and 31.6 percent over the last 10 years.
Southwest has maintained an average operating margin (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization as a percentage of revenue) of 18%.
The bonds carry a variable interest rate that tracks six-month Euribor rates with an average additional margin of 263 basis points.
U.S. National Football League teams have an average operating margin of 16%.
Our stock is up more than 30% since August, and our five-year 54% average operating margin in our IP segment beats all of our peers.
The antidumping duty ultimately imposed is, in theory, equal to the weighted average dumping margin calculated for all U.S. sales expressed as a percentage of U.S. sales value.
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Four out of five companies said profits from online operations grew at a faster pace than in 2005, with an average operating margin of 9%, according to the Forrester study.
However, under the agreement, Tiffany may reduce retail prices by 20 percent in order to achieve an overall average gross margin for Peretti objects of no greater than 50 percent.
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To appreciate the affront to fairness and mathematical integrity that zeroing represents, recall that antidumping duty rates are determined by calculating a weighted average dumping margin, which derives from individual dumping margins calculated for multiple comparisons.
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That compares with an average net profit margin of just over 5 percent in 2011 and a recessionary low average of 2.7 percent in 2009.
For the most recent six months, HP's 10.7% average pretax profit margin in services exceeds IBM's 9.7%.
They have an average net profit margin of 7.6 percent, which is improved from 4.6 percent a year earlier.
The industry average for net margin over the last twelve months was 5.5% while WETF was able to post 13% net margin.
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In all, only 25 of 333 companies managed to beat its sector gross margin average while generating at least 10% of their revenue through Wal-Mart.
Bierman said the healthy increase in the average net profit margin shown in the Sageworks data could allow companies to absorb some of the additional labor costs, if necessary.
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Average net profit margin, meanwhile, was 5. 1 percent in the period ended January, compared with 1.8 percent a year earlier and unchanged from the period using statements filed through December.
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The World Economic Forum index also shows that U.S. infrastructure beats the European Union average by a wide margin!
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Over the past year, the total returns on long-term bonds have exceeded those on the Dow Jones Industrial Average by a substantial margin.
Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists), which clock an average 10.4% margin, brought up the rear.
In his book, Vedder cites Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that Wal-Mart's wages lag the retail-industry average by just a small margin, an expected result given that the bulk of its stores are located in low-income areas.
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