Sentences with phrase «lowering margins»

In the midst of the massive liquidation, they hoped to stimulate stock purchases by lowering margins required for brokerage loans.

If they spring for a 7.8 ″ option, later they will again be able to squeeze others out of the market by lowering their margins.

«PRN's business has lower growth rate and lower margin than the rest of UBM's business.

On the negative note, because our industry is highly competitive since we work off higher volumes, we also work off lower margins, thus making those marketing dollars that much more valuable.

«When is the transition year transitioning to higher margins instead of lower margins?»

It invested in developing wind farms, only to pull back from the sector after deciding wind was a waste because the average wind farm delivered lower margins than the average deepwater oil well.

One item may have a lower margin but may lead to a high number of upsell sales with other items.

«I'm sure all retailers will have to pass that on eventually because wine is an extremely low margin business,» Rowan Gormley, chief executive officer at Majestic Wine, told CNBC on Wednesday.

If we were to accept lower margins because of our commitment to social responsibility, then we'd be doing the broader socially responsible business movement a disservice because we wouldn't be as competitive or as attractive to investors.»

Whereas default risk is a natural disincentive to loose lending, from the banks» perspective, the risk of issuing mortgages is minimal, which helps to explain why they're willing to loan money at such low margins.

But food is a low margin business and on - demand delivery has proven to be a logistical nightmare.

There's a difference in growth opportunities for Alphabet and Amazon, according to Macquarie's Ben Schachter: Every new Alphabet business is going to be lower margin than its ads business, while every new Amazon business is going to have higher margins than retail.

Our business, selling jewelry over the Internet, runs at much lower margins than most jewelry businesses.

The value of that box was more than $ 100, and given the low margins on food products, the labor involved with individually wrapping ingredients and the costly Styrofoam packaging with cool packs, this clearly was not a cheap giveaway.

Low margin.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Prescription - free remedies offer stable sales due to customers» brand loyalty, albeit at lower margins than pharmaceuticals.

Steven operated the business with the understanding that they would have a lower margin.

«Virtually every opportunity that GOOG invests in is going to be structurally lower margin than its core search business, whereas virtually every opportunity that AMZN invests in is going to be structurally higher margin than its core ultra-low margin retail business,» he wrote in a note to clients.

«GOOG is clearly still doing the right thing and investing for the future, but that is a lower margin future,» Schacter wrote, while noting that Alphabet has always focused more on incremental operating profit than margins.

And this figure includes businesses like cloud and hardware, which probably have a much lower margin than its core advertising business (Google does not break out operating profit or loss for these sub-businesses).

«GOOG is clearly still doing the right thing and investing for the future, but that is a lower margin future,» Macquarie said.

Of course, plenty of losses occur from simple oversights, especially in high volume, low margin businesses like restaurants.

The work was low margin, but the profits from it augmented cash flow and covered a significant portion of the plant's overhead (electricity, water, taxes, etc.).

Right now, non-banks are most active in the low margin parts of the trading business, with Morgan Stanley and Oliver Wyman estimating that these firms only compete for ~ 15 % of the fee pool.

Kocher speculates that Amazon could reduce costs by accepting lower margins than pharmacy benefits managers — intermediaries that now make huge profits through sales of generic drugs in particular.

There's a familiar pattern in the company's history: keep high - stakes R&D in Toronto; punt lower margin commodity business to sites where labour costs are lower (Celestica operates 20 facilities in 14 countries including Mexico, Taiwan and Malaysia).

In a research note, AltaCorp Capital analyst John Chu lowered his 2013 - 2014 forecast for Potash Corp. «on the back of our lower potash price assumptions and the associated lower margins,» and downgraded the company to «underperform.»

But the ski industry is capital - intensive with low margins, so making money was a challenge.

It's a very, very high volume and very low margin [business].

He also believes that the data - centric solutions that have become a priority for Intel are likely to carry lower margins than server CPUs.

Liquidity, low interest rates (low margin rates), low commissions, low fees.

Pacific Crest Securities, a unit of KeyBanc Capital Markets, said it remains Underweight on NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) due to signs of desktop GPU market saturation, lower margins from incremental Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR)(OTC: NTDOY) Switch revenue and a possible sales pause in its data...

Given Lululemon's high valuation and lower margin opportunity prospects, Konik sees opportunity in other brands, particularly Under Armour because its valuations are lower than Lululemon's.

The 139 bln - euro Magnum ice - cream owner may attract uppity investors for the same reasons Kraft Heinz came calling: low margins and relatively little debt.

It's the kind of low margin manufacturing that is never supposed to come back after it leaves North America for cheaper labour abroad.

To me there are two ways to make money: you can sell a whole bunch of stuff with lower margins, or you can niche down and sell higher priced goods and services.

Mobile is a huge and necessary expenditure, but at the cost of lower margins.

LBO's introduce way too much debt to allow any of it to ever be re-paid, especially since so many categories in retail operate on low margins in the first place.

An excessively low reference price can handicap its long - term profitability — the low price might hasten its penetration of the market, but the resulting lower margins forgo the future profits a higher price would have captured once a customer base had been established.

There is this on - going fallacy that volume can make up for low margins.

The 370 - basis - point improvement was primarily the result of lower commodity costs, as well as the positive impact from Image Activation, and the sale of our lower margin Canadian restaurants in the second quarter of 2015.

Mini Contracts: NYMEX does offer e-mini natural gas futures contracts that enable you to trade smaller amounts of natural gas with lower margin requirements.

They'll assign a lower margin for borrowers with excellent credit, and a higher margin to those with bad credit scores.

Many traders prefer the NZD / USD because of the low margin and positive swap.

Some assets generally have a large return on investment ratio while other have lower margins.

As described in detail in other RBA publications, [7] it has allowed new entrants and contributed to lower margins.

The international bond markets have expressed their confidence in Australia's fiscal and monetary policies by reducing the spread between Australian and US yields to the lowest margin in a generation.

«The low margins and fraud challenges in our business had us looking to add more affordable and secure payment options.

[1] That capacity to execute on low margins has allowed Bezos the ability to broadly extend his product mix, attracting an ever larger customer base.