In a survey of over 700, 000 uses by FixYa, Apple scored top by a huge margin: nearly 3 times more that your beloved Samsung, 5 times more than Nokia and 27 times more than Motorola.
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Rising top-lines, with margin improvements, result in geometric improvement in earnings, which results in higher multiples.
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This might very well have happened, since the margin at the top was a mere half point.
And, on top of the spike in margin debt by investors, new research by market participants highlights the dangers of playing the market with borrowed money.
That shortfall comes on both the top line as well as its margin forecast.
The real reason behind the fall was the forced selling by the speculators who bought on margin near the recent swing top.
What has been proven is that if you are one of the top spenders, innovation will impact gross margin (the percentage of revenue left over after subtracting the costs of materials, labor, manufacturing, and direct shipping, and after paying other expenses incurred in making the products or services sold).
If this proposed tax rate is approved, it would put France on top for having the highest individual income tax margin, surpassing Sweden, Japan and Britain, all with tax margins of 50 percent or more.
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Customer accounts have been moved to other clearing firms, but not all positions or monies have accompanied the move and that might have caused accounts that do not have sufficient margin to sell other assets to top off the accounts.
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The margin of their underperformance was far greater than the margin by which companies ranking in the top quintile for ROE ratios outperformed.
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"We continue to expect solid-top-line growth and expansion of our annual operating margin to approximately 5% of revenue, " says JimMuehlbauerJim Muehlbauer, Best Buy's chief financial officer.
"We continue to expect solid-top-line growth and expansion of our annual operating margin to approximately 5% of revenue, " says Jim Muehlbauer , Best Buy's chief financial officer.
The top 10 techs in the market are sporting an average profit margin of nearly 26%.
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The basic idea is that yes, Apple is superb at making high end, high margin, products that people are willing to pay top dollar for.
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Operating margin in Q1 was 9.8%, at the top of the company forecast range of 7%-10%.
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Unloading the apparel group would move the company's operating margin from the bottom of the retail sector to near the top.
According to music retailer HMV, the album is outselling the current number one, Westlife's Face to Face, by a margin of two-to-one and looks set to top the chart on Sunday.
But the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, looking to increase its current 51-49 margin, is thought to be looking at Mark Warner as the top choice.
Those surveys found that the economy was the top issue for GOP voters in both states -- and by a wide margin in Ohio, which has seen a sharp decline in manufacturing jobs in the past decade.
As inflation then outpaced interest rates by a widening margin once more, the gold price rose eight-fold to its ultimate top of Jan. 1980.
But the top exec maintained that the figures add up to a mere pittance: 7.7% profit margin for every dollar of sales.
Luke's, in Cedar Rapids, which is known for its top-flight cardiac care, is the fourth most profitable hospital in the country with a 36% margin.
Combined with the cost reductions implemented, this top line growth resulted in sequential adjusted operating income growing four times faster than revenue and adjusted operating income margin increasing 95 basis points to 3.3%.
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Vasella also replaced complacent managers (15 of the top 21 posts turned over) and cut 12, 500 jobs in two years, lifting the operating profit margin five points, to 24%.
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This business had a fat 33% operating margin (in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), and its top line--goosed by immigrants sending money back home to their families--was increasing at a 14% annual clip.
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