Sentences with phrase «low operating leverage»
Other real risk factors include low operating leverage; product obsolescence; low barriers to entry; regulatory risk; loss of suppliers; a concentration of buyers; low current ratios or long periods of low cash flow relative to short - term liabilities, to name a few.
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«For a lot of these big producers they get operating leverage out of higher volumes, so they will survive in the low cost model.»
The company recently delivered its first quarter of GAAP pre-tax profit since Q4 2012, due in part to progress in improving operating leverage and the lowest quarter of stock - based compensation expense in more than three years.
Of course, if a firm has high fixed costs and low variable costs (high operating leverage), its financial position is less stable than that of a company that has low fixed costs and high variable costs.
As Boulder Wind Power states on their website, «The BWP design eliminates the mechanical losses associated with a gearbox, while leveraging the higher efficiencies at lower operating speeds enabled by permanent magnet rotor excitation.»
That structure is no longer sustainable because: (1) much of the «leveraged» work is now performed outside law firms (disaggregated); (2) at the lower rungs, machines, paraprofessionals, and / or lawyers operating in lower - cost structures and / or markets are now performing the work; (3) many «legal» tasks have been transformed from «services» to «products»; (4) law companies that are well - capitalized, tech and process savvy, and with customer - centric models aligning provider to consumer economically and culturally have migrated up the complexity chain.
You leverage off of lower commission levels, as a means to try and convince consumers that you're operating at a higher moral level, and consequently must also be more ethical than those who would charge more.
Most importantly, they operate with lower leverage, eschew cross collateralization and lend to lower loan - to - values.
Independently owned and operated since 1996, we leverage technology to streamline the closing process and lower closing costs without sacrificing our exemplary customer service.