The company manages its operations through one reportable operating segment: Lifestyle Media.
The company also announced that it recently completed the evaluation of its reporting segments and will now report results for a separate "NOOK" operating segment.
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In 2013, we will continue to take additional actions at our SANYO Semiconductor Products Group to reduce the break-even level and return this operating segment to profitability.
Over the next six months the crew will perform 137 investigations on the US operating segment of the station, and 44 on the Russian segment, according to a statement from the US space agency, Nasa.
The company was also asked by the Securities and Exchange Commission to remove an unusual accounting metric, dubbed Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income, which painted a more robust picture of its performance.
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We currently forecast negative operating margins for this segment through 2011, and improvement thereafter.
Below you can see how improved operating margins for this segment can help Microsoft.
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The impact of increased revenue is itself small due to low operating margins of this segment.
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For Q2, the company expects non-IFRS operating margin for that segment to be at or below the Q1 level.
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The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
The wireless segment saw operating margins tumble to 23.7% from 30.1% a year ago, as costs of sales and service soared 39% as the company absorbed the costs of launching sales of the Apple iPhone.
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Revenue at MSG Media, which includes MSG Networks, fell 1.2% though the segment's operating profit rose 14%.
The Display Panel segment recorded an operating profit of 750 billion won on revenue of 8.25 trillion won.
Intel earned 55% operating profit from the PC segment in 2011, which is constant across all the above sub-segments.
The company's grocery products segment's operating profits slid 24.5% to higher costs of chicken, beef and pork, even though sales rose by 6.2%.
Our stock is up more than 30% since August, and our five-year 54% average operating margin in our IP segment beats all of our peers.
This segment has been growing operating income at a 24% CAGR from 2004 to 2011.
Adjusted operating margin for the home health segment was 1.8%, compared with 1.4% a year ago.
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While operating profit for the Display Panel segment registered an on-year increase, the Semiconductor Business saw profits drop by 38 percent compared with the same period last year, despite outperforming the previous quarter.
That came largely thanks to strong sales from Microsoft's client segment, which cranks out its Windows operating system.
Wireless operating income margin was 30.8 percent and segment EBITDA margin on service revenues (non-GAAP) was 49.0 percent, both record highs.
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This gives it an opportunity to charge higher prices by expanding into the premium product segment, thereby increasing its revenues and operating margins in the future.
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In fourth-quarter 2012, wireless operating income margin was 24.0 percent and segment EBITDA margin on service revenues (non-GAAP) was 41.4 percent, down 80 basis points from fourth-quarter 2011.
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The sports segment saw revenue drop 31% and its operating loss widened.
Although European sales volume continued to decline, its dominant market share in the premium segment with trends of higher pricing ensured robust operating income.
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The key for sponsors operating with the new marketing concept was exclusivity through its product segment.
Also, each company has a business segment that could be spun off because it has an operating margin superior to its parent and would also command an above-market enterprise multiple as a stand-alone business.
When the stapler hit the wall, I had been in the operating room for more than four hours, struggling to remove a diseased segment of colon from someone I'll call Mr. Baker, a 330-pound middle-aged man.
It's trading net of cash at less than 10 times trailing earnings for a company that's growing its revenue in every segment of its business at north of 10%, that grew its operating earnings at 19% last quarter, and that's buying back stock by the truck load.
"We view handheld devices as a very, very important market segment and intend to provide robust solutions for those customers, " says Row 44 Chief Operating Officer John LaValle.
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