The company said the percentage of sales that were clearance-priced had increased in the quarter causing margins to shrink and earnings to fall.
These transactions are posted on a bell curve, displaying the percentage of sales in four price ranges: below market, great, good, and above market.
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"Investors like to have better visibility into a company's sales and into supply chains, " says Kevin O'Brien, chief executive of Revere Data, a financial information provider that tracks the percentage of sales that hundreds of companies generate through Wal-Mart.
To measure the "Wal-Mart effect" on profits across different industries, Forbes analyzed information compiled by Revere to compare the percentage of sales that various firms generated through Wal-Mart in fiscal 2006 to the gross margins those firms produced during the same period.
To measure the "Wal-Mart effect" on profits across different industries, Forbes analyzed information compiled by Revere to compare the percentage of sales that various firms generated through Wal-Mart in fiscal 2006 to the gross margins those firms produced during the same period, as compiled by FactSet .
Overhead expenses, too, have stayed close to the same percentage of sales as before the recession, according to current Sageworks data for 2006 through 2012, despite a general increase in the PPI.
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For the interviews and speeches I gave, I needed to sprinkle facts here and there, such as the percentage of album sales generated by the top 200 selling albums.
Home prices have risen for a second consecutive month for the first time since the summer of 2010, but much of this is a consequence of the falling percentage of distressed sales, while prices are still more than 31% of their peaks and may take years to recover.
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The policy undercuts one of the provisions of that agreement, reached between the American and Chinese governments, which bumped up the percentage of ticket sales that foreign producers receive.
Perhaps even more surprising, Grant found that the two extreme personality types pulled in roughly the same percentage of sales.
In the two quarters that the iPhone has accounted for the highest percentage of sales Apple has had its highest gross margins.
These markets are coming off extreme highs in the percentage of REO sales down to levels closer to the US average of 25.3%.
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In some editions, a Weekend Investor article Saturday about Mitt Romney's tax return incorrectly said the percentage of the sales price attributable to the home office wouldn't be eligible for the income-tax exclusion.
The story was about how the world is changing, how those changes are playing out in our music buying habits, and how those habits relate to the percentage of album sales for those top 200 albums.
The sales picture is further muddied by the fact that a percentage of Zetia sales are expected to come in the form of a combination pill with Merck's Zocor.
Scottish Borders showed the largest percentage fall in the number of sales with a drop of 21.2%.
We also discounted the portion of Ikea's sales that we estimate are earmarked for a charitable trust and subtracted a percentage of the sales that are held by another Kamprad company.
It is now the company that derives by far the greatest percentage of its sales from new products.
In the first half of the current year, the margin earned by British Gas - that is profit as a percentage of sales - was 7.2%, compared with 6.9% in the first six months of last year, and 8.9% in the whole of 2010.
As Forbes has observed, companies that consistently score at the top in terms of EVA Momentum (the change in economic profit as a percentage of trailing sales) also tend to produce outsize returns for shareholders.
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Audits are common and can take at least two months, but DiNapoli moved up the review in response to a New York Post report about Apple being the only retailer in Grand Central that won't be paying a percentage of sales to the cash-strapped MTA, a comptroller official said.
It begs the question, with the Web still accounting for such a small percentage of retail sales, and online growth now projected to slow from the pace of the last few years--will consumers ever break through and adopt the Internet as a shopping channel significant enough to break through single digits as a percentage of overall sales?
The plants earn a fixed percentage of sales, a labor rate Thor won't reveal.
The University of Rochester lost a case in which it said it was owed a percentage of sales of Pfizer's Celebrex because its researchers had first patent the idea of making painkillers by targeting the enzyme COX-2, the one hit by Celebrex.
In Miami distressed sales as a percentage of all sales went down to 31% from 44% at the start of the year, well off the high point of over 50% seen in mid-2009.
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We're sure the good doctor's attorneys have some high-powered arguments to the contrary, so we'll withhold judgment and see where this all leads -- we're guessing a quick settlement is in the cards, as fighting Microsoft might end up actually costing more than any percentage of royalties on total sales of the Zune.
Advocates of the arduous policies noted that a sales-tax increase of three percentage points, to 21%, merely puts Spain's tax in line with that of its EU peers.
Wyeth ships the drug to doctors, and a percentage of sales are given to MedImmune.
The Private Company Report by Sageworks, a monthly update on the health of private companies in America, shows that several categories of construction posted mid-teen percentage sales increases in the 12 months ended March 2013.
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