Some of the investors who had to cash out found they could best do so by borrowing against the securities at a margin rate of 7 percent or more.
If an individual plans both to own shares and to borrow, he will often get a lower rate of interest on a margin loan, because it is secured against shares.
Corporate profits are increasing at a pace faster than the rate of inflation, which creates a margin of value for investors.
Although we expect IBM to maintain its high margins given the strength of its GBS business, a contraction in GBS profit margin in the future to historical average of rate of 12.5% would result in downside of 5% to the Trefis price estimate.
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Sears Holdings saw its gross margin rate increase 130 basis points for the fourth quarter of 2012 and 90 basis points for the year from the comparable prior year periods.
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But those figures are always higher than the official rate often by a wide margin, even in the best of times.
The bonds carry a variable interest rate that tracks six-month Euribor rates with an average additional margin of 263 basis points.
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Kevin Mountford, of Moneysupermarket.com, said that the margin between the Bank rate and the interest paid by savings accounts was actually very high at present.
Summers said gross margin improvements did not grow "meaningfully" along with the rate of generic sales, and believes it will slow down as the generic sales cycle rolls off.
Cheaper than developed-country utilities by any metric but with a past and future growth rate near 20%, it enjoys an operating margin (Ebitda to revenues) of 32%, triple the industry norm.
"We believe gross margin will continue to fall at a similar rate given the higher price of scrap silicon which we have confirmed in our recent trip to China, " Pichel said.
The bank's net interest margin--the difference between its cost of capital and average loan rate--has fallen for five consecutive quarters, to 0.9%.
This gradual shift towards a more favorable margin segments is how IBM plans to grow profits at more than twice the rate of sales growth (forecasted to grow 5% annually).
While total satisfaction may rise with more, it will rise at a slower rate, and we will reallocate our holdings to substitute something with higher utils of satisfaction at the margin for something else providing fewer utils.
Net interest margin declined to 3.66%, a reflection of the low interest rate environment being orchestrated by the Federal Reserve thanks to its asset purchase programs over the past several years aimed at greasing the skids for an economic recovery.
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The cost of ELA to IBRC is assumed to be 200 basis points higher than the MRO rate but this profit margin goes to the Central Bank and is subtracted off when calculating the net cost.
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Net profit margin has been adjusted to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries.
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