Still, the combination of rising costs for commodity, labor, and transportation could weigh on company margins going forward.
To stimulate demand, the bank could resort to promotional and pricing tactics that would weigh on margins and such a scenario could weigh on margins going forward.
While restructuring expenses may weigh on its margins in the near term, we expect the new, leaner structure to lend itself to higher profit margins going forward.
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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.
Aeropostale suffered a similar fate on Friday as it too spoke of increasing costs and narrowing margins going forward, causing the teen retailer to cut its earnings expectations for the coming quarter.
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Going forward, we expect the margins to sustain these levels.
We expect the operating margins to improve going forward due to re-organization efforts started by Barclays in 2008 as well an improving banking environment.
But with reasonably safe profits from submarine optics, IP routing and Services, we believe the company is in a position to generate between 1% and 4% operating margins every year going forward, which should turn, over the cycle, into positive cash generation before restructuring costs.
The growing popularity of the content and web services businesses which have higher margins will also help profitability going forward.
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For a long time going forward, technology is still only going to work around the margins of public education.
Looking forward, if these companies grow beyond their current capacity, their margins will give them the necessary buffer to add employees.
The stock case for this resides in Amazon, which is continually investing in distribution centers, new products and its Amazon Web Services platform to the detriment of margins, and shareholders just keep paying 71.6 times forward earnings.
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We believe that if the company continues the trend of strengthening its deepwater and ultra-deepwater assets, its average daily revenues per rig and the gross margins of its contract drilling business will be positively impacted going forward.
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While we expect gross margins (for both pharma and diagnostics) to decline going forward due to a change in product mix and pricing pressure, the decline may not be as steep as we had earlier anticipated and so we have slightly revised our gross margin expectation.
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Margins really are the key to the report, as well as forward guidance, said one hedge fund analyst who declined to be named.
The community forecasts suggest display ad EBITDA margins will reach 41% in 2011 before stabilizing near 33% going forward.
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For the hotel segment, we forecast that EBITDA margins will trend at around 23% and slowly decrease to around 21% going forward.
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Going forward, however, burgeoning emerging market sales of low- and mid-end smartphones will have an impact on margins as the developed markets gradually become more and more saturated.
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