Marketers are mislead to think that they promotionally come out ahead with incremental sales and profits in spite of lower margins because mix models do not measure the longer-term negative consequences of cannibalized, future full-margin sales.
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Both cannibalize future full-margin sales.
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However, the company maintained its full year operating margin guidance for the chipset and licensing divisions, implying that the later half of the year should pick up the slack as handset makers launch high-end smartphones in preparation for the holiday season.
Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points, it is larger for subgroups.
As expected, the budget failed to pass the full Senate vote by a margin of 57-40.
The analyst said such a phone would have a lower margin than the full-priced iPhone, but above the corporate average when sold in volume.
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For the full year, Tellabs sees gross margin in the upper 40s.
For the full year, the company sees operating margin in devices and services in the 6%-9% range.
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For the full year, the company sees gross margin of 63%, give or take a few points.
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The higher-than-expected full-year business outlook for operating margin and earnings is primarily driven by higher-than-expected revenue performance.
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Full currency union seems to remove that margin of discretion, and shore up the credibility of the government's promise not to devalue.
The Zumwalt has the power, cooling, space and weight margin designed to meet the full spectrum of future threats, both known and unknown.
ExxonMobil does not care if the margin increases because they have the full amount anyway.
The Mini, sold at a lower price point, is thought to carry a smaller margin than the more expensive, full-size iPad.
The core reason was depressed US gas prices - that have become low margin at best - negative plays over full cycle economics at worst.
"We are just starting to see the full potential of the global scale and the operating margin benefits through the One Ford plan, " Fields said.
We expect gross margin will improve significantly as we move into full production mode and absorb more of the fixed overheads.
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Well, yes: high-margin businesses are competition magnets, just like vaults full of cash must be guarded from looters.
The company said gross margin for Q3 and Q4 will be well below the full year average.
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All costs have increased, with cost of revenues up nearly 300 basis points, and operating income margin dropping from 52% to 47% for the full years of 2010 to 2011.
Traders typically put down just a small percentage of a gold contract's full value in order to trade it, and this amount, known as margin, must be increased when prices fall.
Which is what leads to our interesting problem: the margin for error, the gap between the entire system working at full output and potential peak demand is going to be only 4% of that peak demand.
The company's profit margin on the Logan is over 6%, double that on the full-price Renault range.
Not only should a country full of brilliant, entrepreneurial minds never be recessed, but our struggles on the margin serve as a repellent to ambitious minds the world over whose arrival here would make us even more American than we already are.
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For the full year, the company cut its capital spending and research and development budgets and gross margin target.
Nikolay Sobolev, Severstal's finance chief, adds that a further twist to the strategy is for Severstal to build a dealer network to sell high-margin services, such as adapting its vehicles for school and hospitals, providing full-service leasing arrangements and offering credit terms with local banks.
In the case of students, it seems reasonable to assume that full-time students working to support themselves as they get their degrees operate on very tight margin.
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