Investors mulling retail stocks have well-established metrics to look at, among them inventory turnover (cost of sales divided by inventory), same-store-sales growth (the change in sales for stores open at least one year) and sales per square foot.
Growth in Windows Phone sales may not change the stock price much, which is still driven mainly by Windows and Office sales.
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And Internet or not, some sales tactics never change, as Deirdre Holbrook of San Francisco found out late last year when she went to buy a new Honda CR-V.
The big-box stores are backing a coalition called the Alliance for Main Street Fairness, which is leading efforts to change sales-tax laws in more than a dozen states including Texas and California.
This number calculates the change in sales for locations opened one year or longer.
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Other factors hurting vehicle sales are unlikely to change immediately.
"While smartphone sales continued on their torrid pace in the fourth quarter, the seeds of change are evident in the sales numbers, " Baker said.
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You can gauge the impact of a change in annuity sales by modifying the above forecast.
The change created separate sales forces to go after HCM (employee data tracking) software customers and marketing.
The Land Registry is using something called Repeat Sales Regression to measure the change in prices over time.
Using our modifiable chart above, for a 5 million unit change in iPad sales by 2013 translates to around 1% shift in our price estimate.
While your oil is changed, the sales associates will offer to change your air filter, perform a transmission fluid change and do a variety of other more profitable services in the hopes of increasing the profit margin.
The thinking is that plunging export sales might create pressure for a change in foreign policy.
In terms of the change in licensed retail sales from 2010 to 2011, some products fluctuated drastically.
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Moving the tax from an income tax to a sales tax may or may not change this dynamic.
The company forecasts very little change in comparable stores sales this fiscal year.
They also assume the costs for sales and general administration would not change just because the transmission technology was different.
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One big change that helped boost sales - and the bottom line - was altering the way that Magic Seasonings was bottled and sold.
Real Final Sales (Real GDP minus the inventory change) increased a whopping 7.1 percent.
On the export front, Scottish manufacturers recorded no month-on-month change in the volume of sales to international clients.
And it predicted little change in either prices or sales this year.
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The decline appears due mostly to speculative short-term trading and possibly, sales by banks rather than any fundamental change in the nature of a resource that has consistently been treasured as a store of value since civilization began.
That leads to reduced sales since it gives consumers an option to change their mind.
Glyde.com expects that to change, based on re-sales after Apple introduced the third-generation iPad in March.
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He notes that Geodon sales never took off because it causes a change in the electrical rhythms of the heart.
Many states want to change this, especially with Internet sales.
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The U.S. economy is in need of an extraordinary change that might help to stabilize home sales.
Nowak offers up one specific change that he figures would instantly double sales: charging for branded pages.
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