The company can sustain its gross margin profile, while the Street expects gradual erosion.
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Nobody can project its gross margins, share of the smartphone market and when same reaches saturation.
Its gross margin is a mere 26%, and it's not controlling expenses well, says Waller.
Excluding its listed finance arm, its net debt is 1.9 times its gross operating profit.
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It doesn't break out profits by product segment, but its gross margin rate is declining.
Quarter after quarter, Apple beats its gross margin guidance based upon more favorable than expected component pricing.
Just as we expected, Oracle has managed to boost its gross margins in the hardware business significantly.
But while most investors obsessed over iPhone sales, the most telling figure Apple reported was its gross margins.
And its gross margins also took a hit, dipping below 40% for the first time in 10 quarters.
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Sales increased 37% from the same period last year, but its gross margin slipped from 51% to 44%.
Kellogg's focus on expensive frills inched its gross margin up to 45% last year from 44.2% in 2001.
Thus, we expect it to spend a lower percentage of its gross profit for capital expenditure in the future.
Louis, Missouri-based company expanded its gross profit margin 300 basis points to 48%.
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Today, as an example, Brazil has total national debt of roughly thirty or so percent of its gross domestic product.
In 2000 it provided official development assistance of only 0.1% of its gross national income--the lowest proportion among all donors.
Maximizing its gross profit bang per invested buck, Home Depot is going to stock only 60% of the appliance line.
The company does offer guidance on its gross margins and some expenses, which were nearly flat in the third quarter.
America, as Obama continuously reminds us, spends 16% of its gross domestic product on health care--the highest percentage in the world.
The company is not changing guidance for the telecom, environmental and life sciences units, and is maintaining its gross margin guidance.
The governing coalition spends billions of dollars - more than 2% of its gross domestic product - on helping the poor.
Just an interesting statistic over the last decade: China spends about 9 percent of its gross domestic product on infrastructure.
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While Apple continues to increase iPhone sales and gain more smartphone market share, its gross margin is something to watch out for.
It follows a day after the IMF censured Argentina for its manipulated statistics, most importantly its gross underreporting of the inflation rate.
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The real danger in the Education Department is not its gross financial mismanagement but its efforts to gain effective control of America's schools.
In a PC industry racked by deflation, Nvidia has managed to increase its gross margin from 29% in 2004 to a current 46%.
According to Goldstein, China's total current account surplus has ballooned from 1% of its gross domestic product in 2001 to 9% in 2006.
The company however managed to beat its gross margins guidance by 260 basis points as the sales mix came in better than expected.
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Although RIM has not disclosed any guidance numbers on its soon-to-be-released PlayBook tablet, we believe its gross margins could be around 25% for 2011.
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The country is now reinvesting 2 percent of its gross domestic product in energy infrastructure while China is plowing back 9 percent, Kearney adds.
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