Southwest has maintained an average operating margin (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization as a percentage of revenue) of 18%.
U.S. National Football League teams have an average operating margin of 16%.
He leaves just as the company is beginning to execute his turnaround plan to return BSX to top-line growth and industry average operating margins.
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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.
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.
After generating an average operating income (earnings before depreciation, interest and taxes) of 10.2% of revenues during the 1997-98 season, basketball teams saw their operating margin sink to -13.9% during last year's abbreviated schedule.
They are on average the second-highest operating cost for gas retailers (higher than rent on their stores).
Increased operating costs, lower average realized metal prices and increased depreciation charges negatively impacted adjusted earnings, the company said.
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The flash memory leader is more expensive than its industry average, but it also has better operating margins.
The researchers found that, on average, in the past three years the operating charities had boosted their allocations to alternative investments to 28 percent.
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We expect the operating margin to return to its historical average, and you can modify the interactive chart below to gauge the effect a change in margins will have on our price estimate.
McKinsey reckons that, on average, foreign hypermarkets are making 3.3% operating profit, while locals are making 0.9%.
And until companies are operating much closer to that long-term average, they will hold back on hiring.
Same-store net operating income climbed 4.1% and the average rental rate rose 3.4% on a year-over-year basis.
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According to a recent Citigroup study, small firms on average spend a heavy 2% of their assets covering various operating expenses, excluding salaries and payouts to their investment teams.
Its operating margin hovers around 10%, the industry average.
To determine the average amount consumers might pay to keep their new cars in operating condition, we used 2008 repair estimates calculated over a five-year period by Vincentric, an auto-industry data-analysis company.
The train operating companies say successive governments have required them to increase average season ticket prices by more than inflation.
And, according to boffins at the University of Stirling, if British companies were to capitalise their operating leases, their gearing would shoot up from an average of 20% to 72%.
But our average annual litigation expense has still been far below that of most technology operating companies.
The national average for corporate-based waste diversion is 45 percent and Walmart Stores operating in California have nearly doubled this number.
Over the past decade the company has increased average annual sales by at least 6% while more than doubling its operating margins.
Companies selling above-average levels of better-for-you foods and beverages enjoyed higher operating profits, larger returns to shareholders, and a better image among consumers, branding studies have shown.
The exception to the trend is WHOLE FOODS MARKET (77, WFMI) , the world's largest retailer of pricey organic foods, whose operating margin is 4.9%, double the supermarket average.
In the other scenario, Cisco actually achieves its average internal estimate of 15% revenue growth, and based on an operating margin of 25%, it implies a 4% cash flow growth.
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.
That, coupled with price increases, put Ray-Ban's operating margin above the wholesale division's 23.6% average, even as sales of Ray-Bans shrank in both 2000 and 2001.
The company expects to see its operating ratio to be around the high 60s by 2015, while average annual EPS growth should average between 10% and 15% off of their 2013 base.
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