The decline in net income in the second quarter snapped a three-quarter streak of increasing profit.
Net income fell in the third quarter, snapping a two-quarter streak of increasing profit.
The decline in net income in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year snapped a three-quarter streak of increasing profit.
The company has posted increasing profit for three quarters in a row.
For two quarters in a row, the company has posted increasing profit.
The company has reported increasing profit for three straight quarters.
The strong demand allowed Deere to raise prices by 3% in the quarter, increasing its profit.
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While your oil is changed, the sales associates will offer to change your air filter, perform a transmission fluid change and do a variety of other more profitable services in the hopes of increasing the profit margin.
Increasing demand and the higher profit margins on such vehicles was a recipe for success.
The mail-sorting and service businesses tend to employ more people, diminishing profit margins and increasing the demand for management attention.
What Nick Saban cannot control is the escalating profit scheme infecting college football or the increasing disparity between the student athlete benefits and the corporate grown-ups who profit from them.
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Complexity erodes profit margins by gradually increasing costs and slowing down day to day business efficiency.
Then go on to point out that the profit share cannot continue increasing ever into the future and thus conclude that this cause of the outperformance cannot so continue.
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Like many of its peers, American Eagle has been facing profit margin pressure due to increasing cotton prices over the last year.
So rather than taking advantage of cheap sterling to shift vastly more product and invest to increase capacity, they are increasing their dollar prices to widen their profit margins and boost cash flow.
The produced coal EBITDA margin increased from around 13% in 2006 to 22% in 2008, with increasing global demand for coal resulting in higher profit margins for coal producers like Massey.
The produced coal EBITDA margin increased from around 13% in 2006 to just over 22% in 2008, as increasing global demand for coal resulted in higher profit margins for coal producers like Massey.
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Profit has grown even more substantially, increasing more than 18% over the same time frame.
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Given the pressure from pay-TV companies and increasing programming expenses, we see limited room for profit growth.
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At that time, Deutsche Telekom had announced that third-quarter profit had dropped 20% and cited an increasing number of defections by fixed-line customers and fierce competition in Germany.
Kimmel screens for what he calls "magnet" stocks with high relative strength, increasing institutional ownership and accelerating growth in sales, profits and profit margins.
The goal is to groom companies and organizations interested in furthering the values and increasing the impact of public service media, not to create blockbuster profit-makers.
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The profit drop in the second quarter followed two consecutive quarters of increasing net income.
The profit drop in the third quarter followed two consecutive quarters of increasing net income.
Costco Wholesale (COST) reported that profit increased by 27 percent during the fourth quarter due to increasing sales and higher membership fees.
After several years of increasing productivity, U.S. companies are now near their peak levels of profit margins, leaving earnings vulnerable to any decline in sales volume, analysts said.
The profit drop in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year followed two consecutive quarters of increasing net income.
It means that as carriers try to profit from consumer usage, they may discourage customers using iPhone and Android powered phones from increasing video, picture and Web data downloads in the exponential fashion that Apple and Google investors are accustomed to seeing.
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