Thanks to a raft of low-end low-margin smartphones, Android is established as the dominant consumer platform around the world.
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The basic idea is that yes, Apple is superb at making high end, high margin, products that people are willing to pay top dollar for.
There were reports in credible sources that Amazon would jump into smartphones with its signature low-end, low-margin strategy.
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There was talk that Bridgestone , its Tokyo-based owner, would pull the plug on Firestone, since the parent company was pushing its higher-end, higher-margin Bridgestone-brand business before the tragedies.
Despite many short term costs associated with the ramp, Tesla nonetheless expects to get approximately halfway to the 25% gross margin target by end of year.
These projections imply that, even for the lowest emission scenarios, the average income of South Africans will have overtaken that of Americans by a very wide margin by the end of the century.
Yes, ASUS is making a tidy income alongside its Google deal, but the fact that it's shipping a million Nexus 7 tablets a month leaves little doubt that higher-end (and higher-margin) tablets like the Transformer Pad Infinity are being overshadowed.
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If the free market works as advertised, this should end up as a low-margin business.
The Sunstein proposal might reduce business costs at the margin and could even end up eliminating regulations whose societal costs exceed their benefits.
Indeed, it may end up as a negative-margin business: If history is any guide, some companies will be willing to sell at a loss to gain market share, and there will be investors willing to finance them, at least for a while.
The liquor industry has dove headfirst into the high-margin market of high-end tequilas.
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The Pimco High Income Fund is a closed-end collection of junk bonds, bought on margin.
So you end up not having to hold as much margin because those are less risky portfolios than had they been held separately.
Cisco gross margin under pressure from high-end switching product transitions.
Cameras, like the array of printers HP sells, are for the most part a means to an end: driving the consumption of more high-margin printing supplies such as ink cartridges.
There could be 10% upside to the Trefis price estimate if commercial airplanes EBITDA margin increased to around 18% by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
We conservatively forecast that the EBITDA margin will rise gradually to 12% by the end of our forecast period.
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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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However, we believe this margin will slowly decline to about 24% at the end of the forecast period.
At its peak last week Yahoo had risen 81 percent from the end of August (40 percent alone following the new profit-margin numbers).
Going forward, as the economic environment further improves, and the revenues from this region picks up, we expect the Wealth Management Americas operating margin to gradually increase to around 7% by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
Gross margin is expected to be about 13%, at the high end of the previous guidance range of 11%-13%.
Also, with most of the high-end flagship smartphones supporting LTE, Qualcomm remains the LTE leader by quite a margin.
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