Sentences with phrase «cent margin of»

With many pre-election polls pegging both parties at 34 per cent, that is within the typical 3 per cent margin of error.

Not exact matches

That's led to cases where some firms, such as Canopy Growth Corp., have reported gross margins in excess of 100 per cent.

As well, the company's gross margins before fair value adjustments shrunk from 58 per cent of sales or $ 12.5 million, compared to 64 per cent of sales or $ 6.2 million in the fiscal third quarter a year ago.

Some publicly traded companies have boasted that their all - in costs are in the range of 70 cents to $ 1.75 per gram which translates into profit margins of more than 80 per cent.

Shares in engineering firm Monadelphous Group fell sharply today after it posted a 27 per cent slide in profit on the back of lower activity in the resources and energy sectors and predicted contracting margins would remain under pressure.

Engineering and construction contractor Decmil Group has posted a 4.9 per cent fall in first - half profit to $ 24.3 million as a result of lower construction margins in the tough market.

Given the average professional service business runs on profit margins of around 10 percent, having clients not pay you for 100 days means you're eating up every cent of profit for a year worth of hard work to cover their bad behavior.

The ballot count from Saturday's vote was 1,793 opposed versus 1,278 who supported the multi-billion dollar project — a margin of 58.4 per cent to 41.6 per cent.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

When correcting the model to include current profit margins, the effects of cord cutting, the impact of Turner's current contracts with pay - TV companies and other factors, Petrocelli said, Shapiro's model shows that cable bills would actually decrease by 54 cents per month per subscriber.

Shorten told Nine last week that PHIs «are making 25 per cent profits» — which is just wrong (though why would we expect a former director of AustralianSuper with fiduciary duties over the nation's largest retirement fund to know the difference between a profit margin and a return on equity?)

By contrast, a typical retailer enjoys margins of about five per cent.

Given 85 per cent of Caltex earnings are from fuel - related sales and refining margins, «even the smallest level of electric vehicle penetration would have a material impact on earnings,» the fund wrote on its website in October.

In your example of a «30 % Advertising Profit Margin» then 70 cents of every dollar of Gross Profit is spent on advertising.

Proposed changes to passive investment rules are seen as unfair by a margin of more than two - to - one over small business owners who think it is fair (55 per cent versus 22 per cent).

Although it is less than 2 per cent of total household debt, growth in margin lending has accounted for over a fifth of the rise in banks» personal lending (excluding credit cards) since 1996.

According to Laurentian Bank analyst Mona Nazir, the hotel business is expected to eventually rival its air and leisure business in terms earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), though with significantly better margins of 25 per cent, as compared to Transat's margin of 3 per cent.

Margin lending by banks and brokers grew by 3.6 per cent in the June quarter, somewhat slower than the increase of around 10 per cent in each of the previous three quarters.

Imported car prices rose by 2.5 per cent in the September quarter 1999, possibly reflecting some rebuilding of wholesalers» and retailers» profit margins.

The 51 cents a share were far below Street consensus of 74 cents, and the $ 239 million profit on $ 25 billion in sales illustrates just how thin the company's margins are.

Margin lending for direct purchases of equities and placements with managed funds rose by 5 per cent in the December quarter, to $ 15.2 billion.

Environics said the margin of error for a sample of this size is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points, with a confidence level of 95 per cent.

The background environment was one in which demand in Australia — which grew by over 5 1/2 per cent in 2007 — outstripped, by a significant margin, any plausible estimate of growth in potential supply.

In its full year results announced in February, the group's insurance profit margin of 9.7 percent was near the top end of guidance of 8.5 percent to 10 percent, while its COR was within target range at 93.2 compared to 94.3 per cent for the previous corresponding period.

In 2016, Mr Neal announced the insurer would hike prices after it's insurance margins in its Australia and New Zealand business fell from 14.8 per cent in the first half of 2015 to 8.9 per cent in the first half of 2016.

* EasterTrend Survey Conducted by Research Management Group for Walmart Canada, the online survey of 796 shoppers has a margin of error is 3.5 per cent.

** Valentine's Day Trend Survey Conducted by Research Management Group for Walmart Canada, the online survey of 787 shoppers has a margin of error is 3.5 per cent.

It hopes to increase its percentage margins to the mid-teens by 2011, from the 2006 confectionery margin of 10.1 per cent.

The higher - margin strategy is part of the reason why Mr Clarke said Treasury wasn't really interested in buying the $ 1 billion - plus Accolade Wines business now destined for an ASX listing in early 2017 under 80 per cent owner CHAMP Private Equity.

Mr Durkan first accused multinational suppliers of price gouging soon after joining Coles from Britain in 2008, saying Australian consumers were paying at least 10 per cent and as much as 100 per cent more than British consumers for packaged groceries because suppliers had been making excessive profit margins in Australia and relying on annual price increases for margin growth.

Secondly, the aforementioned Food and Grocery Council published research last year that found the gross margins of FMCG suppliers in Australia fell from 41 per cent in 2010 to 38.5 per cent in 2013, and that their EBIT margin levels were 7 per cent lower than a sample set of its international comparators.

Profit margins across Treasury were 15.3 per cent in 2015 - 16, and they rose in all of the main geographic divisions, with Asia the standout.

He said the broader target of getting towards 30 per cent profit margins for the whole business would depend on how hard Treasury drove internal shifts where it heavily invests behind the higher - end brands that are much more profitable.

Margins there are 34.8 per cent, more than double that of Australasia, which sits at 15.6 per cent.

Accolade is still 20 per cent owned by New York Stock Exchange - listed Constellation Brands which bought the entire wine business for $ 1.9 billion in 2003 when it was known as BRL Hardy, and then sold down most of its stake in 2011 for a much lower multiple after a sustained slump in profits as the high Australian dollar hit profit margins on exports.

However, in the case of Treasury Wine Estates, which generates 9 per cent of earnings in the UK and Europe, the currency translation impact may be offset by higher volumes and margins if consumers trade down to cheaper drops such as Treasury's Blossom Hill label, which sells for as little as # 5 a bottle.

According to Morgan Stanley, Costco's gross margins are about 14 per cent, compared with 24 per cent at Woolworths and 38 per cent at Myer, and cost to sales is about 13 per cent, less than half that of rivals.

The crunch in margins caused by a devaluation of the British pound by about 20 per cent since the June 2016 vote to exit the European Union has been a big blow to Australian wine exporters.

Profit margins in the Asian operations for Treasury in the first half of 2016 - 17 were 36 per cent.

Australian Food & Grocery Council chief executive Gary Dawson said that while retailer profit margins would fall to an average of about 5.3 per cent this year they remained well above those of food retailers in the US (3.8 per cent) and Britain (2.0 per cent) and the global average (3.2 per cent).

Accolade, which sells brands such as Hardys, Leasingham, Grant Burge and Banrock Station, makes about 55 per cent of its sales to the UK and Europe with the slump in the British pound hurting margins.

However, the company said the financial performance of its Australian ingredients business - the gross margin of which dived 25 per cent to $ NZ9 million - is «still not satisfactory».

Mr Clarke also revealed at the strategic briefing that Treasury was still considering a potential de-merger of its lower - priced commercial wine business among a range of future options, which also includes more acquisitions of higher - end wine companies as it heads towards its goal of having profit margins above 30 per cent across the entire business.

In the first half of 2016 - 17 Treasury's profit margin across the company was 17.5 per cent.

Bottled water represents less than 20 per cent of CCA's Australian earnings, but generates higher margins than carbonated soft drinks because of lower input and production costs and the fact that it owns the Mt Franklin brand outright and does not pay royalties to The Coca - Cola Co..

At an average retail price of $ 1.97 the retailer's gross margin would be 60 cents, or 44 per cent.

Based on an average retail price of $ 3.05, the retailer makes a gross margin of $ 1 a loaf, or 33 per cent.

While talk two years ago was that Gillette was under pressure from the rise of hipster beards and cheaper blades, Procter & Gamble's most recent quarterly sales show grooming sales were up 9 per cent because of price rises and better sales of higher - margin products.

Investors showed they had little patience for companies that undershot earnings forecasts, even by the thinnest of margins, sending down shares in retailer Woolworths on Wednesday by 3 per cent after its March - quarter sales result came in slightly shy of analyst targets.

The Irish firm could not escape the current climate of squeezed margins, higher raw material prices and «currency turbulence» with operating profit for the year falling by over 8 per cent on 2003 to $ 238.546.