As share prices fall, margins decline and revenues may fail to cover fixed costs.
It became much more difficult to cover fixed costs or acquire inventory using a volume discount, so the result was a decrease in profitability.
First, traditional retailers may need to think about closing more stores in 2012 as the least-trafficked outlets fail to generate enough sales to cover fixed overhead costs.
Goldman has made an offer to buy back the warrants from holders for a 10% premium on their purchase price, plus a fixed payment to cover broker fees.
They have to sell many cars to cover the fixed expenses but after the break even, each additional car sold is probably half profit to the bottom line.
But they do have to cover those fixed costs.
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Edelman thinks that restaurants do not do the analysis required to figure out whether enough customers who visit the restaurant using a Groupon come back and pay full price in sufficient numbers to cover their fixed costs.
Because the number of potential customers for such experimental sensors is small, the firms manufacturing them have to charge a high price per unit just to cover the fixed costs of designing the product, setting up the factory, and so forth.
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Financially stabilizing the primary care world with consistent monthly fee payments to cover our fixed costs while allowing those docs with better ideas or higher prices to go for the upscale patients or those wanting better art work and longer visits.
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The landlord laid off its risk by signing a contract with an electric billing service in which the landlord paid a fixed sum in advance to cover its bills for the winter.
The landlord laid off its risk by signing a contract with an electric billing service in which the landlord paid a fixed sum in advance to cover its electric bills for the winter.
Investors also must cover the manager's fixed hedging costs of 0.077% a week, which push total expenses up to an effective annual rate of 5.35%.
Highland Council has proposed making a "strong recommendation" to the Scottish government that fixed penalty notices (FPN) be extended to cover recycling.
We also point out that apparel is one of the last consumer categories to raise prices, and by the fall, consumers on a fixed budget may have already re-allocated their dollars to cover inflation in categories such as food and gas.
But it was understood the contingency fund was meant to cover cost overruns, essential in a project with a fixed timetable, not lack of private money.
While the cover of the internal brains of the lock has been fixed so the Simplex cannot be opened with a magnet, we may not be quite done with this story.
The question is whether the balance between the private sector (profitable by nature) and the government (unprofitable by nature) has shifted so much that there won't be enough rebound to cover the overhead, to pay the economy's fixed costs while it digs out from recession.
The fees are fixed by large insurers and Medicare, and all too often those fees no longer cover the expense of providing the service.
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Teams who exceed the limit - which does not cover some expenses such as driver salaries, fines, and marketing - do not face any fixed penalties, but will have their fate decided by the FIA depending on the degree of their overspend.
The current rules don't require the brokers to fix the trades by buying shares to cover their short positions after 13 days, they merely say that if the trades aren't fixed, the broker can't do any more short-sales in that security without borrowing or arranging to borrow the stock.
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