With rising apparel sales, gross margin and sales per square foot are headed up, vital trends for any retailer.
Avnet said the weak profit forecast reflects the lower revenue in the technology solutions group, lower profits margins in the Western regions in electronics marketing due to a weaker sales environment, and a greater-than-expected mix shift in electronics market, with better sales in the lower-margin Asia region more offset by weaker sales in higher-margin Western regions.
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It then allegedly turned around and booked those hardware sales as high-margin software sales.
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In fact, many semiconductor companies have already cut their sales and margin estimates for the fourth quarter.
That could be a problem for shareholders when same-store sales and margin gains slow down, as they inevitably will.
At this point, Toyota will likely have to deal with lower sales or margin-squeezing promotions, both of which are bad news for investors.
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It needs sales and margin success.
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Say a company increases its sales at a positive EVA margin, but a lower one than the margin on existing sales.
The shift within mobility sales toward lower margin smartphones was the key driver behind declining margins.
In addition to watching for both sales guidance and margin trends in the N.
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Gross margin dropped from 45.9% to 37.8% mainly due to the lower margin sales of smartphones.
Instead the company focused on maintaining its market share targets with its lower-margin sales of ordinary cellphones.
When looking at the report later today, investors should keep their focus on iPhone sales and gross margin.
He believes the consumer and competitive environment remains intensely challenging and will lead to identical store sales and profit margin challenges.
Best Buy also said it continues to expect 2013 comp store sales, gross margin, earnings and inventory levels to be in line with previous expectations.
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In contrast, the consumer division currently about one-third of sales generates operation margin of only about half a percent, as computer and netbook prices continue to slide.
The cannibalisation of higher-margin sales must be painful, but the reasoning is easy to understand: if the retailers do not undercut themselves, thousands of resourceful web-surfers will.
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But at least for privately held companies involved in computer systems design and related services, business remains strong, according to new sales and profit margin data from Sageworks Inc.
Management did a decent job of keeping costs low even as they were able to produce better sales and gross margin expanded to 50.9% versus 47.5% in the year ago quarter.
This is an important sector as it represents higher margin sales than their hardware products, and it suggests the company is seeing the benefits of its recent acquisition of Perot Systems.
Marketers are mislead to think that they promotionally come out ahead with incremental sales and profits in spite of lower margins because mix models do not measure the longer-term negative consequences of cannibalized, future full-margin sales.
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Both cannibalize future full-margin sales.
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It is a month when margin sales are lower as stores promote heavy clearance discounts to make way for holiday products, so the most reliable forecast we might get from a look at the sales data is whether Snooki beat a zombie for most popular Halloween costume this year.
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China Life said its sales force of about 740, 000 agents will be focused more on higher-margin policy sales rather than short-term or single payment products.
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.
When equity prices decline steadily as they have been these last few days, margin accounts get restricted and in the worst case, if cash or stock is not deposited to meet margin requirements, sales can be forced by the brokers to pay for margin debt used to buy the stock.
But sales were 52% higher and gross margin as a percent of sales surged to 49% from 19% in the year ago period.
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The Company achieved gross margin on sales of 50.5 percent, compared to 50.4 percent in the prior fiscal year.
The company achieved gross margin on sales of 51.3 percent, compared to 52.7 percent in the comparable quarter last year.
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