Research firm IDC says net margins on business PCs are at 5%, down from 20% in 1995.
Not a negligible sum in a business where net margins are thinner than cornflakes.
Even the biggest oil companies today are hard pressed to generate net margins of 10%.
He also believes that widening net margins will have the biggest impact on profit growth.
For simplicity's sake, let's reduce Twitter's net margins to Google's, which are a gusher-like 21%.
And in net margins United is tied for number one with superefficient Southwest.
Net margins are adjusted to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries.
IDC, a research firm, says that net margins on business PCs are at 5%, down from 20% in 1995.
Net margins for used cars average 1.7% compared with 0.7% for new cars.
Norfolk Southern's discipline gives it the best net margins of the U.S. railroads.
The Vikings were losing money after debt service prior to their refinancing and the Cubs net margins were getting crushed.
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The additional cost of sweet flavorings lowers Bell's net margins to 4%.
From 1999 to 2000, Ivax's net margins increased from 11% to 17%.
Data on sales and net margins at each store were tallied weekly.
Revenues have also increased each year since 2008, as has net income, return on equity, return on assets, operating margins, and net margins.
Historically Microsoft has turned in net margins in the 30% range.
With a customer-focused business model that effectively uses the nation's airports as distribution points, net margins of 20% are feasible, estimates Horacio Zambrano, a Wedbush Morgan analyst who tracks the security industry.
She has produced net margins beating 24%.
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JBS' focus now is to make good on its acquisition binges by reducing its debt from three to two times Ebitda by the end of 2012 and increasing its 3.6% net margins (the industry ranges from 3% to 6.1%).
Thus, gross profit margins (gross profit divided by sales) and net profit margins (net income divided by sales) should both be analyzed.
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Even more relevant they registered average five year pre-tax margins of 10.1 percent and net profit margins of 6.4 percent.
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The company wants to boost net profit margins, which sunk to 4.8% over the latest 12-months.
All sixteen of the sixteen sectors analyzed experienced increased net profit margins in 2010 over 2009.
Net interest margins still decline, hundreds of basis points below where they rested years ago.
As the bank incurs an interest expense on its deposit base, more deposits mean lower net interest margins.
Net profit margins are adjusted to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries.
Sageworks adjusts net profit margins to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries.
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