Perik's target profit margin is the same for the assessment business as for test prep, 20% after tax. (Test prep accounts for 70% of the company's revenues, K--12 the rest.) His risky strategy: Instead of emphasizing customized assessment tests for particular school districts, he plans to deliver a more generic product.
For the full year, the company cut its capital spending and research and development budgets and gross margin target.
French carmaker Peugeot is up 8.7%, in Paris after reiterating its 2008 operating margin target, when many people had expected it to be lower.
Despite many short term costs associated with the ramp, Tesla nonetheless expects to get approximately halfway to the 25% gross margin target by end of year.
The best ones design product from the beginning to target specific price and margin points.
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Notable retailers that lagged expectations by a wide margin include Target and teen-focused retailers like Abercrombie, Aeropostale and Hot Topic.
Target also led by its widest margin since the monthly study began two years ago.
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"We take a cautious view on revenue development in Q4 2010, " it said, adding that it reiterated its target for a 10% EBITDA margin.
To be clear, this is not a price target but rather more akin to a margin of safety calculation.
The target of a 20% pre-tax margin at MSSB by 2012 has been quietly dropped.
We are set to miss the target for cutting under-five mortality by a margin equivalent to 4 million additional deaths.
For example, I find many entrepreneurs are certain they can make a profit on a 20% margin, even though most of their competitors target 60% margins, or even higher.
The adjusted operating profit margin is already within the 5% to 7% target exit for fiscal 2007.
That would be an operating margin of 8.5%, not a particularly ambitious target.
Mr Mulally suspects that it will take until 2001 to raise Boeing's net operating margin on passenger jets from the present measly 1% to the target level of 7-8% set by Mr Condit.
They have resurrected an aging Oracle foe--Ingres, which uses database technology developed 32 years ago by two Berkeley scientists--to target Oracle's biggest source of profit: the steady, high-margin fees it charges for regular upgrades and support.
He also noted that Cisco is targeting a high-20% operating margin over the next 3-5 years versus the mid-20% target discussed last year.
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Sears has lost all growth with its inability to deal with the emergence of traditional retail competitors that have different margin needs and merchandising plans, such as Kohl's, Lowe's and Target, and its inability to embrace Internet retailing as well.
India had set a relatively good target of 226 for six from their 50 overs, but Australia are in sparkling form and replied with a winning margin of 230 and three balls to spare.
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