Since we know Amazon is growing net sales (that is the 3P sales) faster than gross sales, we have a bullish signal about future gross margin expansion.
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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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So when the yield curve is steeper, banks have a fatter future gross operating profit margin.
Although we expect IBM to maintain its high margins given the strength of its GBS business, a contraction in GBS profit margin in the future to historical average of rate of 12.5% would result in downside of 5% to the Trefis price estimate.
In their fiscal third quarter, the company revealed future orders returned to positive growth and grow margin increased.
However, possible commodity inflation and the rising value of Dollar vis-a-vis Euro may pose profit margin and pricing challenges for Heinz in future year.
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The Zumwalt has the power, cooling, space and weight margin designed to meet the full spectrum of future threats, both known and unknown.
Cheaper than developed-country utilities by any metric but with a past and future growth rate near 20%, it enjoys an operating margin (Ebitda to revenues) of 32%, triple the industry norm.
In the chart above we forecast the high gross margin for mobile flash memory cards will continue into the future, as the cost improvement achieved is based on technological developments by SanDisk.
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The company says it is a price is paying for transiting from lower-margin mass businesses, while it heads to a glorious future of high-value unified data center architectures and swift, insightful data management.
Another piece of legislation introduced in the House would amend the state constitution to require future wildlife or natural resource-related initiatives to pass by a two-thirds margin, rather than by a simple majority.
There are eight new chemical entities in various stages of development that have generated four investigational new drug applications with the FDA. Since the payoff from these projects is far in the future, Ranbaxy's labs will continue pumping out generics, which net the company an aftertax margin of 16%.
They insist that innovations achieve the proper margin, order size or net price or be abandoned--regardless of shifting market demand and potential future growth.
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