Sentences with phrase «higher operating profit»

[Interest expense will rise, but higher operating profit should help].

Sony Pictures and Sony Music will also generate a higher operating profit.

Ceferin highlights that Europe's 700 top - division clubs «together generating the highest operating profits before transfers in history», while 2016 saw for the first time more than $ 1 billion invested in stadiums and «long - term assets» (not players!).

Not exact matches

You have total control and retain all profit — and you pay all of the expenses of employees and equipment, which means higher startup as well as higher operating costs.

April 23 - Canadian National Railway Co on Monday posted a 16.2 percent fall in quarterly profit as operating expenses shot up during the harsh winter, and the country's largest railroad cut its 2018 outlook as capacity limits strained its ability to meet high demand.

Although high - end purchasing surged again by 2010, giving the retail side an operating profit of about $ 14 million for the year ending Jan. 31, 2011 (compared with a loss of $ 15.7 million the year before), Gannicott started to reconsider whether the retail game was worth it.

ABN AMRO beat forecasts with its fourth - quarter earnings too, with higher operating income and profit.

According to studies by the Hay Group and Towers Watson, engaged employees are 43 % more productive, and companies with the highest percentage of engaged employees, on average, increase operating margins 3.64 % and net profit margins by 2.06 %.

Operating profit margins are also higher: 30.3 % versus 21.9 % in non-Manhattan Shacks.

Morgan Stanley analyst Vincent Meunier said the price still implied a valuation of 4.7 times sales and around 19 times operating profit (EBITDA) for the business, at the high end of recent deals in the sector.

Both companies are operating at a loss, and it's likely that investors are losing patience with promising tech companies that don't turn a profit, according to Mark McComsey, chief investment officer of Beverly Hills Wealth Management, a financial advisory firm catering to high net worth people and entrepreneurs, based in Los Angeles.

NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters)- United Parcel Service Inc reported higher first - quarter net profit on Thursday, driven by strong package volumes in its core U.S. segment, but higher costs from Saturday delivery and nasty winter weather weighed on operating results.

With reports of increased compensation running high, there is more pressure to pass these costs on in higher selling prices, although tax cuts and growing operating profits alleviate some of this pressure.

The Chinese company said its gross margins were impacted by lower ASPs and rising material costs, while the decline in net and operating profits was due to higher operating expenses.

Part of the reason is that U.S. firms operating abroad earn higher rates of profit than foreign firms operating here.

Public investment does not need to generate profits or pay high salaries, bonuses and stock options, or operate via offshore banking centers.

inefficiencies in the form of higher labor and other operating expenses and, as a result, Shack - level operating profit margins are generally lower during the start - up period of operation.

Shares in the aerospace giant jumped by one - tenth on Thursday following an 8 percent rise in operating profit, higher than analysts expected.

Group operating profit (beia) grew 4.7 % organically, primarily reflecting higher revenues and improved cost efficiencies partly offset by higher planned marketing and selling expenses.

Olive Garden opened 16 new restaurants and delivered total sales growth of nearly 3 %, high single - digit operating profit growth and solid margin expansion during the fourth quarter.

Some of its underperforming stores have been hurt by high rents that have squeezed the already narrow profit margins that supermarkets operate with.

Operating profit, excluding special items such as higher provisions for costs from its historic diesel crisis, was 17 billion euros.

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Asia - focused lender HSBC Holdings Plc reported Friday lower profit in its first quarter, as higher revenue was more than offset by higher operating expenses.

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, May 4 BASF's quarterly operating profit edged 2 percent higher as gains in basic petrochemicals as well as in the oil and gas unit, which it aims to list separately, were tempered by a strong euro.

To put this in perspective, Adecco generated EUR 14.8 billion in revenue and EUR 402 million in operating profit in 2009, so we were paying a high - teens multiple on 12 - month expected EBIT.

Other industries might have very small costs of goods sold that produce high gross margins, but large operating expenses can eat up most or all of that gross profit and thereby lead to less attractive net income figures.

High risk funds are defined as mutual funds, hedge funds or private investments that operate with a risk to demand a higher rate of profit return.

BASF's quarterly operating profit edged 2 percent higher as gains in basic petrochemicals as well as in the oil and gas unit, which it aims to list separately, were tempered by a strong euro.

Aetna generated an after - tax operating profit (NOPAT) of almost $ 2.6 billion in 2014, its highest ever.

Profits of the private corporate sector, as measured by gross operating surplus, increased by 2.2 per cent in the March quarter, to be 9 1/2 per cent higher over the year and a relatively high share of GDP (Graph 28).

The group expects operating profit from ordinary activities to grow by 12 % on a like - for - like basis this year, higher than an earlier forecast of 10 %.

The company operates several online trading sites that allow customers to buy or sell binary options and profit from «predicting» whether the price of a certain asset will be be higher or lower within a specific amount of time (for example 60 seconds).

Samsung reports 4th straight record quarterSEOUL — Samsung Electronics Co. reported its fourth consecutive quarter of record operating profits, capitalizing on high demand for its memory chips.

Figure 1, which shows the trends in average return on invested capital (ROIC) and cumulative after - tax operating profit (NOPAT) for the sector over the past few years, clearly shows that profits are flat to down and not driving stock valuations higher.

Alstom, a French maker of natural - gas turbines and high - speed trains, said its operating profit margins will fall in this fiscal year and next, having previously said the margins would improve, as its cash flow turns negative.

Though Wall Street's estimates of forward operating margins imply soaring earnings in the next couple of years, it's useful to understand that in available data since the early 1980's, the higher Wall Street's expectations of profit margins have been, the weaker the subsequent performance of the S&P 500 has been over the following 3 - year horizon.

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.

The operating profit margin in 2016 improved to 2.8 % (2015: 2.6 %), primarily reflecting higher Australia volumes and the operating profit per kilogram of packed meat sold was 12.5 p (2015: 11.3 p).

Dairy Crest has picked up a new 50m litre milk supply contract with Tesco but reported a 24 % drop in operating profit in its dairies division to # 10.9 m on the back of higher input costs and competitive pressures.

High interest payments impacted on operating profits in its 2010 financial year, leaving Findus with a net loss of # 151.6 million.

Both know how the market operates... the influx of tv money to the premier league has made foreign clubs, by way of greed and jealousy, see the epl as a cash cow to milk for high transfer fees and profit.

The club is largely operating with low levels or debt and has one of the highest turnover and profit margins in world football.

A publicly owned drug research and production utility, operating at cost for public benefit instead of private profit, would use high revenues from drugs that are taken daily or frequently in order to subsidize research and production of low - revenue drugs like vaccines for Ebola, malaria, and other infectious diseases that are used once.

Profit margin declines reflect higher marketing spending and operating costs related to Chemistry.com, which launched Q1.

Profits have indeed been sweet for many cybercharters, operating as they do without extensive facilities and support staff, though advocates always stress the cost of developing curriculum, advertising, and computer networks, as well as of high turnover rates.

Ball points to out - of - state school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.»

Chrysler also attributed a decline in its modified operating profit, which was $ 586 million, to the high costs of launching several new vehicles, increased advertising costs for those vehicles, and the impacts of higher foreign exchange rates — notably costs incurred in South America due to the devaluation of Venezuelan currency.

Compared to its operating profit per car, Porsche's average revenue per vehicle is obviously much higher at around $ 99,000.

Astrid Söderbergh Widding, president of Stockholm University and chair of the consortium's steering committee, said that the increasing costs of scientific communication were «straining university budgets on a global scale while publishers operate on high profit margins».