Sageworks, a financial information company, analyzed gross margins and cost of sales, or cost of goods sold, for privately owned clothing stores (NAICS code 4481) between 2007 and Oct. 18.
Higher sales with a lower cost structure pushed gross margin from 55.9% to 57.8%.
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Besides aiding subscriber additions, Sprint will likely witness cost savings and growth in gross margins.
The gross profit margins (revenue minus the cost of goods sold) at other hardware makers have collapsed to commodity levels of 30%, but Cisco's have climbed to 70%.
Gross margin, or revenue after the cost of sales, slipped to 40.6 percent during the quarter, from 41 percent a year earlier, suggesting the company may have had to discount more heavily to sell items.
These proposals can be a significant cost for multinational corporations with high gross margins attributable to intangible property.
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Yeung said the company has been working to manage down inventory in an attempt to improve gross margins during the slowdown and will continue cost-cutting actions.
The outflow stands as the tangible cost to Pimco from Mr. Gross's ill-timed bets earlier this year, when he wrongly wagered against a big rally in Treasury bonds.
He also sees potential for gross margin expansion, on higher software sales and cost benefits from new products.
Gross profit is the difference between total revenue and cost of goods sold and for many small business owners this measure is intuitive and nothing new.
Since we have an income tax, not a gross receipts tax, you get to deduct your cost of goods sold, if you are selling illegal drugs.
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The gross profit margin (excluding occupancy expense as a cost of the merchandise) edged up a percentage point, to 56%, in 1998, but sales growth slowed, to 6% from 14%.
Gross margin guidance for 2012 also expanded due to lower cost inflation than anticipated.
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Cost cutting and strong sales helped to boost gross margin by 190 basis points to 43%.
Aside from the retailer's gross margin of 35%, the biggest component of cost is labor: Even when a Mille is 99% completed, the tiniest flaw can cause it to be rejected.
Gross margins continued their upward trend with ongoing efficiency enhancing and cost reduction programs, along with favorable mix, contributing to these results.
This huge cost improvement helped SanDisk achieve a double-digit gross margin improvement across its product segments which include mobile, digital imaging, and USB sticks among others.
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Says Apple also cut the cost on iPhone 4s and iPhone 4, and that affects gross margin.
Cost cutting and higher selling prices helped the company post a gross margin of 40.1% in Q4, up from 30.4% in the third quarter.
If hardware lasts two years and if, let's say, electricity and other overhead cost as much as the hardware, Amazon would have a gross margin of 45%, better than what it gets on books.
While it is likely that we will see somewhat stronger (but fewer) storms as climate change continues, a March 2012 Nature study shows that the global damage cost from hurricanes will go to 0.02% of gross domestic product annually in 2100 from 0.04% today a drop of 50%, despite global warming.
Publishers make very high gross margins on traditional textbooks, and since e-books radically reduce the cost of distribution and printing, one would expect prices to drop substantially for digital offerings.
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As long as growth is sufficient (and it is), there is room to offset video cost pressures in the U.S. with scale benefits below the gross margin line.
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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And until it does, Scotland could find the cost of funding its share of the UK debt (around 75% if gross domestic product, at the point of independence) could be at a significantly higher borrowing rate than the UK currently faces.
Since price matching can only be done at the cost of margins, we think that Best Buy will report lower year-over-year gross margins for the quarter.
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Right now that cost is largely invisible to them because the merchants pay it by taking a haircut on the gross receipts, and presumably mark up prices to recover at least part of it.
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And Congress is likely soon to require brokers to report to the Internal Revenue Service and to you not just the gross proceeds of securities sales (as they do now on form 1099-B) but also your cost basis.
Already we have seen gross discrimination against smokers, in the work place, exorbitant taxes on smoking materials, and now with insurance cost.
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