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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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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Segment EBITDA margin (non-GAAP) was 23.8 percent, compared with 22.4 percent in second-quarter 2010.
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Segment EBITDA margin (non-GAAP) was 23.1 percent in second-quarter 2012, compared with 22.6 percent in first-quarter 2012 and 23.8 percent in second-quarter 2011.
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While hosting is growing at 24% year over year growth, the higher-margin Cloud segment is growing at 89% over the same period last year.
It doesn't break out profits by product segment, but its gross margin rate is declining.
For Q2, the company expects non-IFRS operating margin for that segment to be at or below the Q1 level.
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Priceline has a strong foothold in the high-margin hotel bookings segment outside the U.S., facilitated by the acquisition of Bookings.com (for European markets) and Agoda.com (for Asian markets).
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.
The drop in profitability appears to be a function not of the health insurance segment, which reported the same margin as last year, but of the smaller business that sells disability, property and other insurance.
Estee Lauder makes higher margin from its skin care segment (16%) than its overall business (11%).
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Adjusted operating margin for the home health segment was 1.8%, compared with 1.4% a year ago.
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There is the mass-market segment: bland, commoditised, low-margin, fast turnover, and unsavourily exploitative if you look too closely.
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.
The revolution in genomics and molecular biology has rescued a segment of the drug industry that for decades was viewed as a low-margin backwater beset by litigation and regulation.
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