Sentences with phrase «historical high margins»

Legal publishing's historical high margins have been largely based on customers» willingness to pay for added value, where they see the benefits in terms of additional profit.

-- Legal publishing's historical high margins have been largely based on customers» willingness to pay for added value, where they see the benefits in terms of additional profit.

Not exact matches

Client inquiries about the appropriate P / E multiple to assign US stocks routinely ignore that margins are extremely high on a historical basis and have been stagnant for several years.

While these growth rates are already below historical norms, further earnings growth at a rate higher than revenue growth would require profit margins to advance without limit.

Despite lingering PC concerns and substantial investments in the ramp - up of their tablet PC offerings, Intel still produces profit margins that are near the high end of their historical range.

The historical CAPE average has been creeping higher for any number of reasons — changes in accounting rules, tax code, profit margins, and the make up of the S&P 500 — which may or may not be permanent.

The present environment is characterized by unusually overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions, with rising 10 - year Treasury bond yields, heavy insider selling, valuations on «forward earnings» appearing reasonable only because profit margins are more than 70 % above historical norms (fully explained by the negative sum of government and personal savings as a share of GDP), with the S&P 500 at a 4 - year market high, in a mature market advance, with lagging employment indicators still positive but more than half of all OECD countries already in GDP contraction, Europe in recession, Britain on the cusp, and the EU imposing massive losses on depositors in order to protect lenders in an unstable banking system where Cyprus is the iceberg's tip.

Playing devil's advocate, fuel margins are at historical highs due in large part to the declining oil price — as the oil price comes down these operators do not pass on the savings immediately which leads to over-earning on the fuel side.

Thanks to unusually high debt levels and unusually low labor compensation in recent years, the earnings peak in 2007 was based on profit margins that were about 50 % above the historical average, and which have now collapsed.