Perfumes are one of the highest margin products out there, which is why celebrities love them.
Proved wrong on the profit margin explosion years out, I never shoulda bought this iffy, gutsy construct.
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As prices plummeted, margin calls went out to many highly leveraged REITs, and one, Criimi Mae, went bankrupt.
If you have taken out margin loans totaling 50% of your brokerage assets, you should think of that half of your money as no longer belonging to you.
They see one million year long subscriptions purchased as part of the Diablo 3 bundle as a good sign, and they believe that even with retail sales down, digital copies will move far more quickly, and have a better profit margin by cutting out the middleman.
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So he put together his own sample edition, with roughed-out maps, margin notes, an index and a list of appendixes, and sent it out again.
Trefis also points out that margin compression was exacerbated in the most recent quarter due to new product launches.
We share disappointment at the slightly lower than expected margins, but we believe the rest of the quarter was far more impressive and more than cancels out the margin squeeze.
Then his broker offered some advice: Cash in those options, but instead of selling some of the shares to cover the exercise price and related taxes, just take out a margin loan.
That meant exacting more favorable terms from suppliers, throwing out low-margin brands and restocking his stores with Luxottica frames.
Distressed and defaulted paper, however, continued to knock the cover off the ball as credit opportunity investors sought out wide-margin opportunity.
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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.
We expect the growth in its hardware business to be relatively sluggish initially as it phases out the low margin products while pushing its new high margin products to customers.
If you want to profit by lending shares of a sought-after stock like NovaStar, you may have to first move them (or threaten to) out of your margin account into a cash account where the broker can't touch them without your permission.
Large companies searching for margin protection in services are branching out into analog businesses (people working with people) that scale poorly.
Managers are also constructive on retail and institutional inflows into the asset class as investors seek out relatively wide-margin, low-duration opportunities.
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Clearly, this was due to the wipe-out of speculators on margin who were not buying silver as a monetary reserve, but as a risky trade.
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That works out to a profit margin around 0.1%.
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Consider the case of Florida, the state that put George W. Bush in the White House by a margin of fewer than 300 votes out of the five million plus that Floridians cast that year.
Small consolation that Xerox edges out HP in net profit margin, 8% to 7.3%.
But the cost will be steep: Wal-Mart's customers aren't the kind of big spenders who will splash out for a high-margin gaming rig.
But a RadioShack spokeswoman says the company is sticking to its plan to close or relocate some stores, and to replace cleared out inventory with higher-margin goods aimed at increasing profits per square foot.
"The thing that freaked me out was that I had no margin of error, " he says.
Wiping out Mr Howard's comfortable margin in his own seat will be a tall order.
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They want just to find some way to eke out another 1% on their margin this year.
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