Gross margin is a company's profit on sales before factoring in all costs, such as interest and taxes.
Certainly, profit on sales matched development costs within an hour of release.
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Increased activity was helped by a combination of low mortgage rates and rising prices, encouraging builders to believe they can make a profit on sales, demand for new homes and jobs growth.
Because profit on sales to individuals, thin as it is, is much better than profit on most fleet business, the models you are offered at the rental agencies are the ones customers are not clamoring for.
"Not only are their smartphone sales growing, they have also learned how to make a good profit on those sales, " James Rooney, chairman of Market Force Company, an advisory firm based in Seoul, told the BBC.
But at least your penny-and-a-half of profit on the sales dollar comes with a scant dose of capital.
The profit on house sales can also be exempt from capital-gains tax.
Because fleet customers buy in bulk, they tend to pay less than showroom buyers, and that means carmakers earn less profit on those sales.
The latter generates more profit on the sales revenue, again if enough units are sold (and unit sales do not decline too much due to increased prices).
Bradley's group, Palm Solutions, accounts for most of Palm's revenue but manages only 29 cents in gross profit on the sales dollar. (The software group, PalmSource, gets 91 cents on the dollar.) PalmSource gleefully licenses its fabled operating system to the likes of Sony and Kyocera, which then use it as a blunt object to beat Bradley's hardware group into the ground.
The company, which makes a surgical system for heart and urological procedures, beat the Street on profit, but missed on sales.
The drop is easy to arrive at simply as the multiple of some modest lowering of Apple's expected sales growth and some modest lowering of its expected profit margin on those sales.
The hard disk drive maker beat on profit, but missed slightly on sales.
VMware did beat the Street in the latest quarter, however, both on profit and sales.
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Shares fell 12% in late trading after the mattress-maker missed both on profit and sales.
Overall the quarter was positive, topping estimates both on profit and sales.
Chinese PC maker Lenovo says its quarterly profit has doubled on strong sales in emerging markets.
But smaller businesses cannot do that and are seeing profit margins on their export sales hit hard.
Intel, by contrast, wrings out just over 50 cents in gross profit on every buck in sales.
Better still, Intel reported gross margins of 63%, meaning Intel makes 63 cents in profit on every dollar in sales.
It's now the most profitable mobile-phone producer in the world, netting 30 cents in operating profit on every dollar of sales, according to analysts' estimates.
Wall Street expects profit up 78% on sales growth of 192%.
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Last week, Anheuser-Busch Inbev said its quarterly profit jumped 75% on better sales and lower financing costs.
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The government also said it will impose a 20% capital gain tax on profit made from home sales.
Since returning as CEO in January 2007, Dell has been struggling to revive sales and profit on declining demand for PCs, which account for the majority of revenue.
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In other news involving Hong Kong-traded China stocks, Gome fell by 4.6% yesterday after it said on Friday net profit dropped 88% in the first quarter on weak sales. (See story here.) The company also said on Friday that it would increase its investments in e-commerce, as competition heats up with rivals Suning, Yahoo-invested Taobao and others.
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Shares of Goldman Sachs hit a 52-week low on Monday and opened at a new yearly low on Tuesday morning after the financial behemoth came up short on both sales and profit forecasts.
Of course, even partial recovery from the plunge in business and earnings caused by unprecedented 3.11 disasters and Thai floods ensures eye-catching ly favorable quarter on quarter sales and profit comparisons as the year progresses.
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