Performance and Safety Materials Gross Margin: The performance and safety materials division has a current gross margin of 27%.
Given that current operating margin is below 3%, this would easily more than triple earnings, even without any revenue growth.
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It is no longer clear how the current investments in the very low-margin e-tailing business or the current strategy in the very competitive tablet business will result in better margins going forward.
But the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, looking to increase its current 51-49 margin, is thought to be looking at Mark Warner as the top choice.
In the first half of the current year, the margin earned by British Gas - that is profit as a percentage of sales - was 7.2%, compared with 6.9% in the first six months of last year, and 8.9% in the whole of 2010.
In July, Apple cut its gross margin forecast for its current fiscal quarter to 31.4% from 34.2% during the third quarter, as it hinted at new, lower-priced products to come (see "Apple Makes No Promises").
"The current business model, selling low-margin goods and delivering them for free, is not viable for the long term, " says Rebecca Nidositko, senior analyst for online retail strategies at Yankee Group.
An innovation can be as simple as your bookkeeper reducing a bill paying process by 3 steps and thus saving 5 minutes per bill, to an entirely new product line, to an improvement to a current product, to a new high margin service, to a new cultural ritual to improve employee engagement.
One would have at least hoped for tech that surpassed current consoles, even if only by a small margin.
In a PC industry racked by deflation, Nvidia has managed to increase its gross margin from 29% in 2004 to a current 46%.
In addition, the current ratio is up, shares outstanding are down and the gross margin has increased.
Current conditions also led Intel to knock a point off its gross margin expectations for the quarter, now at 62%, plus or minus one percentage point.
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Given the current level of visibility, we believe targeting a non-GAAP operating margin of 8%-9% by the end of 2012 is realistic.
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According to music retailer HMV, the album is outselling the current number one, Westlife's Face to Face, by a margin of two-to-one and looks set to top the chart on Sunday.
The Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House on Friday by a 219-212 margin will punitively tax energy sources that contribute 90% of current U.S. electricity (or 71% if you want to leave out nuclear).
However, Sir Stelios wrote: "Instead of ordering new aircraft, Easyjet should aim for a 10% profit margin, up from 1% four years ago and against the current level of 7%".
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Amazon reported margin pressures and capital investments, but it did not connect the dots on how these current trends would translate into growth in the future.
Evercore Partners analyst Kirk Materne this afternoon trimmed his EPS estimates for Microsoft for the next couple of quarters to reflect the current shortage of hard-disk drives that has resulted from the recent Thai floods, plus lower gross margin assumptions to reflect increased investment in services and online and a greater revenue contribution from the entertainment and devices segment.
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