Even as Novartis has made a big push into the generic market, Teva and Ivax have made their own effort to move into the higher-margin market for prescription drugs.
The liquor industry has dove headfirst into the high-margin market of high-end tequilas.
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It started out that way, but its management realized that it makes much more sense economically to go after a smaller, higher margin market like chemicals.
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Many private investors had got money on credit to play the seemingly unstoppable stock market, just as some of their 1990s counterparts play today's market by "margin" trading on the internet.
Academic studies prove that following that simple strategy has out-performed the market by a significant margin over the long-term, while taking only 50% of market risk.
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Nokia stayed on their own course, appearing to trade profit margin for market share.
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The median of these test companies exceeded the market by a significant margin of more than 44 percentage points.
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Major property and casualty insurers have been on a roll this year, outperforming the broader market by a wide margin.
In other words, Lenovo has to find other products and new markets over PCs for the highly competitive, lower-margin China market.
Well, the market hates to see margin compression, and the operating income margin contracted from 41 percent of revenues to 38 percent.
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Most Wall Streeters have generated very good returns on their teams, generally beating the stock market by a wide margin over comparable periods.
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Below we look at potential upside and downside scenarios for The Hartford given shifts in two important components of its value: market share and operating margin.
"We had an outstanding year in spite of the challenges we faced, and Rolls-Royce now leads the ultra luxury market by some considerable margin, " said chief executive Torsten Muller-Otvos.
With global demand recovering and increasing chemical demand from emerging markets such as China, we expect that additional capacity expansions and economies of scale advantages should lead to market share and EBITDA margin growth for this division.
Don't buy a fund that greatly exceeds this turnover rate unless it delivered really outstanding results--beating the market by a wide margin over a long period and with the same manager at the helm most of that time.
Example: If General Motors wants to slap down Web juggernauts like AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon.com, RealNetworks and MP3.com in the race to own the car portal, it will have to do what a Web company does: price for market share, not margin, and then try hard as heck to scale up rapidly.
The combination of margin erosion and market share loses has turned us Neutral on the stock.
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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.
As shown in the table below, Apple remains number 1 in tablet market share by a large margin, though its lead is narrowing.
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The next time investors in the stock market buy shares on the margin that plummet in value, will we cover those errors too?
Shares in Verizon have had a good 2013 thus far, outperforming not only its largest rival but also the market and by a wide margin.
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Also, government debt itself is a currency negative on the margin owing to market fear that the government might devalue its way out of it.
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Originally designed for the thin-margin regional airline market, this large-cabin jet had built-in operational efficiencies that allowed it to compete head-to-head with significantly smaller regional jets.
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Over the last several quarters, the company has gained market share and delivered robust margin expansion year over year, which resulted in significant earnings growth.
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While selling the iPhone is more lucrative considering its incredible popularity among buyers, emerging market carriers are wary of margin pressures that selling such an expensive phone entails.
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The uncertainty of that situation or the big down move in the Swiss franc may have prompted skittishness in the gold market, or produced some margin-related selling in gold.
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Still, while selling the iPhone is more lucrative considering its incredible popularity among buyers, emerging market carriers are wary of margin pressures that selling such an expensive phone entails.
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And yet the article does not mention to the reader that they are estimates and therefore any extrapolation of market share has an unknown margin of error is just wrong.
Apple has a leading market position by a wide margin with its iPad and others, like Microsoft (MSFT) and several mobile phone manufacturers, like Samsung, are trying to catch up.
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In short, if the Nokia expert is right about the low labor cost component in its products, Apple could easily raise its prices to pay those Foxconn workers a higher wage without losing market share or its gross margin.
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