Once your equity (the total value of
your investment less the margin amount) goes below a certain percentage, you must deposit enough into the margin to get it back to the initial margin percentage.
Not exact matches
But lower prices usually mean lower profit
margins, which usually mean
less investment in keeping the product current, which means more price pressure, lower
margins?and so it goes.
Margin of safety means purchasing
investments for
less than their real worth.
I'll certainly run with that — employees may no longer literally carve out a day each week to mess around with stuff, but Google obviously remains committed to huge
investment in its core business, continually ranking & allocating more (or
less) resources to products / services which are often still pre-revenue,
margin - free, or even plain old loss - making... [YouTube is a prime example — it is, by far, the largest streaming business globally (over 1 billion users per month), but appears to be only in the early innings now of generating revenue, let alone
margins.
While Robinhood is democratizing trading by removing fees that can eat up the potential profit
margins of smaller investors, these users may also have
less net worth to protect them from
investment losses.