Sentences with phrase «little margin of»

Independent brokers have little margin of error when big powerhouses are spending lavishly to pull in customers.

That, and other similar advice I got from superinvestors like Buffett and Munger helped as well my own experience of observing the horrible averaged out outcome for stockholders of highly - leveraged companies, made me realize just how little margin of safety exists in such businesses.

As to Liberty Ventures I think there is little margin of safety at current prices.

This would indicate the company has little margin of safety to pay the dividend after paying its expense and capital expenditures.

Which leaves very little margin of error and may explain the impressive hit rate of the robot.

Not exact matches

Budget 2015 left very little margin for error when it came to balancing the books, with a projected surplus of $ 1.4 billion plus an additional $ 1.0 billion as a contingency reserve, giving the federal government a $ 2.4 billion margin for error.

«Boeing's book of business wasn't hurt by a little wage inflation or modestly rising interest rates or margin calls in the financial markets.»

«A lot of our synergy focus is coming from our facilities and gross margin opportunities, which will take a little while to work their way through the P&L,» he said.

By 1978, the retail shops were gone, and Helen of Troy, in the words of company president Aaron Shenkman, was left with «a nice little $ 6 - million business [net margins were about 4 %].

«That gross margin at a little over 30 is horrible,» said Finerman, president of Metropolitan Capital, on CNBC's «Fast Money.»

Over the course of the interview, he told Hannity that Trump repaid Cohen through a monthly $ 35,000 retainer over a series of months «when he was doing no work for the president,» an amount that Giuliani said included «a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes for Michael.»

«When I heard Cohen's retainer of $ 35,000, when he was doing no work for the president, I said «That's how he's repaying, with a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes for Michael,»» Giuliani said.

«It's tough to look at a full year of losses on Amazon (+56 %), athenahealth (+26 %), Netflix (+55 %) and Tesla (+46 %) when we believe all those stocks appeared priced with little margin for error entering the year, and none executed well or met fundamental expectations in 2017,» he wrote.

While MCD doesn't have as much of a margin of safety in the share price as I'd normally like, with a very long - term investing horizon, I feel comfortable paying up a little for a quality stock as I detailed here.

For «product sales» in aggregate (e-commerce + Whole Foods + the portfolio of crappy little service businesses) the operating margin increased to 1.16 % of sales vs. 0.3 % of sales in Q1 2017.

Over the course of the interview, he told Hannity that Trump repaid Cohen through a monthly $ 35,000 retainer over several months «when he was doing no work for the president,» an amount that Giuliani said included «a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes for Michael.»

Tempted by promises of «rags to riches» transformations and easy credit, most investors gave little thought to the systemic risk that arose from widespread abuse of margin financing and unreliable information about the securities in which they were investing.

With Safeway's store brand sales growth outpacing that of national brands by a 3 - to - 1 margin, Dietz has had little problem persuading several P&G and PepsiCo brand managers to join her growing team.

Written by veteran journalists Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, Losing the Signal is an enduring study of a technology that defined a generation, in a ferocious industry that leaves little margin for error.»

But in a low - margin business like canned goods, a little extra cost can take a deep bite out of profits.

And the lower price point items, are those, as in the past, engineered to protect margins or do you feel like you need to offer a little more to the guests in terms of portion size or quality elements that you're not able to trim back some on those areas to protect margins?

We know that one of the ways of gaining approval and winning customers over is to offer our marketing research work a little bit cheaper than what is obtainable in the market and we are well prepared to survive on lower profit margin for a while.

We know that one of the ways of gaining approval and winning customers over is to sell our biotech products a little bit cheaper than what is obtainable in the market and we are well prepared to survive on lower profit margin for a while.

Yet, with so many asset classes priced for perfection there seems to be precious little margin - of - safety to insulate investors should these initial skirmishes escalate into a full - blown trade war.

We know that one of the ways of gaining approval and winning customers over is to retail our fresh juice and smoothies a little bit cheaper than what is obtainable in the market and we are well prepared to survive on lower profit margin for a while.

We know that one of the ways of gaining approval and winning customers over is to retail our wide range of quality building materials a little bit cheaper than what is obtainable in the market and we are well prepared to survive on lower profit margin for a while.

We know that one of the ways of gaining approval and winning customers over is to offer our window and building exterior cleaning services a little bit cheaper than what is obtainable in the market and we are well prepared to survive on lower profit margin for a while.

Measured across all loan products, and taking into account changes in customer risk margins, however, it seems that interest rates paid on average by small businesses have increased by a little less than the rise in interest rates directly due to the tightening of monetary policy.

Synthetic gold traders appear to share three things in common: no gold, little or nothing in the way of margin requirements, and no knowledge of or interest in the fundamentals of physical supply and demand.

Unlike most of our typical investment reports which focus on free cash flow utilization, net asset value investing, mean reversion of margins or special situations, this report will look at the investment merits of a company that generates little free cash flow at the moment and is somewhat of a growth investment if company management is successful in achieving its objectives.

Think cash, precious metals, liquidity, safety, capital preservation and of course little or no margin.

«If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.»

Further, we see little sign in FFIV's margin trends, or the results of competitors, that the company is poised to relinquish its market position.

Interest rates of financial intermediaries are still a little below average, as a result of margin compression during that period.

Falling wages during the recession forced youth stuck in the margins of this economic crisis to sell their bodies for as little as the cost of a sandwich.

So she decided to write a devotional specifically for people with little margin in life — one that gave simple ways to move closer to God throughout the day, through the use of spiritual disciplines.

This has always been held to be the latest of the four, though it is perhaps the latest by a margin so narrow as to have little significance.

J.T. Barbarese relates other little rewards of bibliomania in «The Last Word Goes to Scribblers in the Margins.»

That sounds about right, maybe a little too thick, but still within the margin of what's yummy.

I was reminded these past two weeks of how little margin there are in our days.

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.

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.

In a game as tight as this was today, when the top quality of the Gunners is hard to find and the opponents have their tails up and are making things very difficult, little incidents and fine margins can make all the difference and that is why Alexis is such an important player for Arsenal.

As good as nurk has been, think about how little margin for error Dame has throwing dimes to Nurk out of the pick and roll

However, football is a game of margins, and margins matter when talking about not one, but many different little things to help make the game safer.

Or, maybe the Rays will add a little on the margins, say they tried, complain about the economics of baseball, and the AL East will once again be dominated by the Yankees and Red Sox while teams that actually bothered to improve will comfortably control the wild card race all year long.

Chelsea have been in formidable form since Conte switched to a 3 -4-2-1 system on the back of a chastening 3 - 0 loss at Emirates Stadium in September, and Pires acknowledges the Gunners have little margin for error with 15 top - fight games remaining this term.

An opening scoreless draw against South Korea left little margin for error on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), but the Matildas responded in perfect fashion with a one - sided victory to sit top of their group on goal difference.

But, as hungry as we are for some kind of trophy this year, we all know the margin of error is very little.

However, there is still a 12 % margin of error which, will leave many expecting mothers surprised when their little girl is actually a little boy.