In today's liberalising markets, regulators have yet to figure out the best way to achieve that reserve margin without damaging the new incentives they are trying to introduce.
However, these branches deliver just 9% of Lloyds' profit - largely because what's being sold is in effect a low-margin mortgage bank, without the benefit of all the other higher margin loans and products that Lloyds also sells its millions of customers.
Amazon has grown rapidly, though it increasingly looks like a low-margin retailer without the stores, as YCharts pointed out earlier this year.
Buying DCR like shorting crude oil but without the nuisances (such as margin calls and tax issues).
In short, if the Nokia expert is right about the low labor cost component in its products, Apple could easily raise its prices to pay those Foxconn workers a higher wage without losing market share or its gross margin.
Without the inventory reductions, we believe gross margin for the second quarter would have been in the mid-single digits, which would have resulted in income close to break-even.
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Back during the Internet boom more than a few individual investors saw Internet shares escalating--seemingly without interruption--and thus bought the shares on margin in order to capture what appeared to be unlimited upside.
Can he cater to the wealthy without disregarding hoi polloi who handed him his first successes and also maintain a fat profit margin (about 13% for 2000, on par with Merrill Lynch)?
If you want to profit by lending shares of a sought-after stock like NovaStar, you may have to first move them (or threaten to) out of your margin account into a cash account where the broker can't touch them without your permission.
Given that current operating margin is below 3%, this would easily more than triple earnings, even without any revenue growth.
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Without margins of error for individual readings, there was no way for the Harvard researchers to compute a margin of error for their overall findings.
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