Indeed, it may end up as a negative-margin business: If history is any guide, some companies will be willing to sell at a loss to gain market share, and there will be investors willing to finance them, at least for a while.
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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When the economic margin is negative, companies tend to revert up to the average and can be good buys.
We plan to bring production levels down in the first quarter, consistent with the decline in revenue, which should have a negative impact on gross margin.
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And not all of them came out profitable because of a methodology that inflates operating margin. (The median margin was negative 0.27%.) A given local hospital may have good operations, but not feel profitable because almost every cent of its profit is sent to their parent system for one thing or another.
The core reason was depressed US gas prices - that have become low margin at best - negative plays over full cycle economics at worst.
Marketers are mislead to think that they promotionally come out ahead with incremental sales and profits in spite of lower margins because mix models do not measure the longer-term negative consequences of cannibalized, future full-margin sales.
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Operating margin improved 550 basis points, to negative 1.6 percent for the fiscal year, compared to negative 7.1 percent for fiscal year 2010.
Operating margin improved 270 basis points, to negative 6.4 percent, for the fourth quarter, compared to negative 9.1 percent in the same period last year.
Gross margin in Q4 is expected to be slightly negative in Q4, compared to a positive 5% in Q3.
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The median operating margin for 200-bed hospitals and above was slightly negative (-0.7%) last year.
For instance, by a 2-to-1 margin, people who describe themselves as conservative Republicans have a more negative view of Islam than do those calling themselves liberal Democrats.
Chevron both missed revenue estimates, the latter by a wide margin Friday morning, and a number of companies have issued tepid or even negative guidance.
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For 2012, wireline operating income margin was 0.2 percent and wireline EBITDA margin (non-GAAP) was 21.3 percent, including the negative impact of fourth-quarter storm recovery.
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When I first wrote about the stock in June of 2008, I was taken aback by the negative response and it seemed to outpace any other stock I had written on by a wide margin.
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