Not exactly--Nortel was looking at shedding the low-margin bottom of its optical-components business, saving the jazziest lines for itself.
None is a true bottom-line margin that relates profits to sales after deducting all costs, including the opportunity cost of equity capital.
However, our gross margin and bottom line have been impacted by worse than anticipated market conditions and inventory provisions.
And it had a comfortable eight point margin over the bottom three relegated clubs.
Unloading the apparel group would move the company's operating margin from the bottom of the retail sector to near the top.
It may not be long before the Nook business begins contributing to the bottom line, thanks to high-margin book downloads.
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If the retailer's overall costs--such as labor, shipping, marketing and other products--remain static, that extra penny of margin can flow to the bottom line.
But we have to be very careful indeed in translating a per unit gross margin into the effect on the bottom line of the company.
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Furniture stores have higher margins and convenience stores have very small ones but no matter what the industry a drop in margin has an impact on the bottom.
Should bonuses come off the top-line, bottom-line, be based on contribution margin, be subjectively or objectively distributed, be paid in cash, stock, options, profit sharing, perks, or some other mechanism?
Even as Wall Street has come to grip with a notably weak iPhone volume performance for this spring, margin expectations have also hit a new bottom.
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Continued ETF liquidation and margin call selling makes it difficult to see a bottom in the near-term.
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The default screen page is monopolized entirely by the text, with no title on the top and no page on the bottom -- though numbers do sometimes appear in incredibly small font in the right margin.
When interest rates were high and stocks were bumping the bottom back in 1982, he encouraged all his clients, including David and Wilma Wilson, to buy on margin.
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