For Apple, high profit-margins and invincible loyalty are the most valuable resources in the world.
Ken: Given the long-term contracts, high profit margins, and protection from competition, what is this company worth?
Several readers assert that Apple will simply use low end components and preserve its high profit margins.
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Why High Profit Margins Could Be Bad for the Bull Market originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.
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The new companies that are generating high profit, growing fast and appealing to consumers all take an open-minded approach.
Ford and GM built a strategy around SUVs and their high profit margins.
Those big inventories encouraged by the cartel have been processed by refiners, who have been enjoying high profit margins.
The high profit margins pay for the assembly and there is sufficient capital to pay for sales and marketing efforts.
Professional graphics are high profit margin products that typically having 2x -3x the profit margins of desktop graphics cards.
Interestingly enough, this change in attitude at IBM also coincided with the unleashing of their latent ability towards driving high profit growth.
As the company says, its first dollar invested is its last dollar and it therefore enjoys very high profit margins (around 70%-75%).
Every food, beverage and clothing retailer will carry merchandise at a high profit in the hopes of selling excessive quantities to out-of-town fans.
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After all, he reasons, they have the best people, a high profit flow, the largest customer based, and the broadest channels of distribution.
The hallmarks of the U.S. economy over the past several years have been strong growth, low unemployment and historically high profit levels for companies.
To maintain its technological edge and high profit margins, however, it must balance low-cost manufacturing abroad with the high-tech precision it achieves in Japan.
But there will be some level of cannibalisation, where customers who would have bought the full price, high profit, model will now trade down.
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This could be a reflection of industries coming into and falling of out favor as well as the fact that high profit margins attract competitors.
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McNamee sees other great Google products with high profit potential like YouTube and Gmail, but none with the ability to replace the loss of their core search business.
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Still, Caterpillar presented all-time high profit in the latest quarter.
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Meanwhile, despite their faster growth potential, high profit margins and little to no debt, many technology companies are trading at valuations below that of the broader market, he says.
Analysts have continued to forecast rapid earnings growth and high profit margins even in the face of rising energy and food costs and stagnant U.S. and falling European incomes.
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She suggested schools might be under pressure from pupils and parents to re-introduce certain foods and that some might be tempted by the high profit margins she said there were on sweet or fatty snacks.
To be sure the stock market values high tech companies so highly (incredibly, Microsoft ranks second in terms of market capitalization, lagging only Exxon), partly because of their high profit margins and prospects for future growth.
Wells Fargo again booked record-high quarterly profit even as its key mortgage unit lost ground.
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In a good year these high-profit models can add 1.5 million vehicles to GM's sales count.
Tom Taulli is the author of High-Profit IPO Strategies: Finding Breakout IPOs for Investors and Traders.
U.S. automakers built high-profit sport utility vehicles, but the market for SUVs declined when gas prices spiked.
An expanded roster of drinks is perhaps the most critical step toward expanding its high-profit hours into the evening.
With the temptation of a high-profit margin, many have found creative ways to try and smuggle the easily transported devices.
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