Kellogg's focus on expensive frills inched its gross margin up to 45% last year from 44.2% in 2001.
Our own operations are disciplined and performing well, with gross margin up despite increased underutilization costs, and with operating expenses down from a year ago.
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Part of the reason is that the chain is selling more unit-dose laundry detergent, like Tide Pods, which have a profit margin up to 5% lower than liquid laundry for retailers.
Its operating profit margin was up nearly 6.5% despite those notoriously high prices at the fuel pumps.
Aided by strong demand for phones, gross margin held up better than most analysts had predicted as well, coming in at 25.9% from 25.3% last year.
However, Sir Stelios wrote: "Instead of ordering new aircraft, Easyjet should aim for a 10% profit margin, up from 1% four years ago and against the current level of 7%".
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If Dell can string together a few quarters where the revenue growth cadence points to long-term growth of 4-5% and gross margin holds up, then we expect the valuation multiples to rerate higher.
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Everyone else had to put up margin calls: that is, if the price of the bond changed then they had to offer up the money that would be due if there was a credit event at that price of that day.
Offices of physicians (except mental health specialists), which clock an average 10.4% margin, brought up the rear.
Local banks appear to share the confidence, extending margin loans for up to 90% of the initial share price.
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After taking a pounding last year, profit margin is back up.
Bear's woes will only exacerbate worries about highly-leveraged hedge funds, an increasing number of which are finding it hard to stay afloat as their prime brokers jack up margin calls.
BlackBerry, which surprised investors on Thursday beating profit estimates by a wide margin, is up more than 26% this year, but firms like Apple and Facebook have actually delivered negative returns this first quarter, helping bring the sector down.
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Gross margin was 47.4% on a GAAP basis, up 0.9 points from a year ago, while non-GAAP gross margin was 48.1%, up 1.2 points.
That 20-point margin for Obama is up from a 9-point advantage a month ago.
But it also raises the question: Which companies are heading up the margin mountain now?
Margin traders rarely show up in stock-ownership surveys, although they are perhaps the heirs to the rice traders of old.
Soon suspects start piling up like margin calls, including Melanie's amorous former boss and McKnight's own supposed best friend.
Most retailers are in a position to boost their profits, at least in the short term, by widening the gross margin--jacking up prices, that is.
Only new longs will need to ante up more margin money.
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Redmond won by beefing up his margin in the northeast part of the state, but also because Miller took votes away from Serna in normally Democratic areas.
Most readers know that the derivatives markets exploded in size over the last two decades, with all sorts of high margin derivative products popping up around the world.
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If you are small fry, the broker will insist that you put up the margin in the form of cash, which he will invest (and on which he will keep the interest).
He thinks product gross margin should expand slowly from 71.6% in calendar 2012 to 72.8% in calendar 2014, as mix shift away from high margin controllers seems to be slowing, and high margin software revenue picks up.
Non-GAAP gross margin was 39%, up 8 points sequentially, but down from 46% a year ago.
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Non-GAAP gross margin was 45%, up from 43% in both Q1 and the year ago quarter.
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