Sentences with phrase «majority of one's profits»

From BNSF to Geico and Dairy Queen, Berkshire Hathaway's business units generate the vast majority of their profit from domestic operations.

Major energy companies are called «Big Oil» for a reason, as the vast majority of their profits comes from the upstream divisions, which explore and produce oil.

Since the vast majority of these profits come from the Fed's bond portfolio, which in turn has grown as a result of QE, money from QE does, indirectly, flow to the US government, but not in the way you might think.

Many of the companies manufacture both animal and human drugs but earn the vast majority of their profits in the human sphere.

The end goal is to turn what has been a limited asset class, where a vast majority of profits go to a narrow group of specialists, into a major asset class receiving allocations from a broad set of investors.

While FMMs also produce therapeutic products, the great majority of their profits come from products marketed to parents of healthy children and this market is growing rapidly worldwide

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On the downside, the firm cut information technology to neutral, with Kostin noting that the sector generates the majority of its profits from overseas and will therefore reap fewer benefits from reform than domestic companies.

Though Playboy launched as a print magazine in 1953, today the majority of its profits come from the trademark and licensing agreements that have made Playboy Vodka and Playboy Bunny recreational wear a thing.

On the flip side, you've also identified customers that make up the majority of your profits.

But Politzer soon realized he had an even bigger problem: As a contractor working with developers to renovate buildings, he was passing the majority of the profit on to the developers who hired him.

And who's driving the majority of those profits?

Luckily I got out with a majority of profits intact.

I was able to work with others who did have a track record but I had to give the majority of profit to my private investors at first.

In order to protect the majority of your profit, whilst benefiting from further share price increases, you could place a trailing stop order to sell 1,000 shares 2 % below market.

We believe that Oracle's best business is maintenance, which accounts for the majority of its profits.

I know it feels great giving your clothes to charity and thrift stores but the harsh reality is that only 10 % of those clothes are actually being sold and the majority of those profits aren't going back to charity.

In other words, we want to be paid for our work, rather than have to pay a press to print our book (which we would then have to market, distribute and sell) let alone give a vanity publisher a majority of the profits for doing nothing.

If more top - selling authors forge ahead with similar self - publishing moves, that could weigh further on publishers, which depend on their big money - making best sellers to pull in the majority of profits, and help fund lesser - known writers.

The majority of their profits come from eager authors wanting to make their dream a reality.

I could keep the majority of my profits.

It's likely that such talk might lead to some brainstorming and action that could result in expanding and improving distribution and outlet venues, and give more say in how the industry functions, to the businesses who actually need printed comics sales because they don't make the majority of their profits from IP outsourcing.

For the uninitiated, MLPs are publicly traded companies that are structured as partnerships such that they must distribute the majority of their profits, but in turn, they are -LSB-...]

The not so well kept secret is that educational lenders, including the federal government, make the majority of their profits when borrowers default.

However, as an investor I would demand full transparency when it comes to revenues: since the unitholders own the stocks in the funds, they have a right to the majority of the profits.

QTL accounts for approximately one - third of Qualcomm revenues but a majority of its profits.

A low dividend payout ratio means that a company is returning a small portion of its earnings to investors, while a high payout ratio implies that a company uses the majority of its profit for dividends instead of for future growth.

Realistically, having a # 50 periphery line hanging around that hardly makes any margin and which doesn't make money from content (which is how Nintendo make the majority of profits anyway) is going to do nothing except cannibalise sales on Nintendo's main offering.

Financially, this makes a lot of sense as you can take a majority of profits and keep it for yourself, whilst you send pennies back to your workers on your own farm because you're a terrible boss and your employees know it, too.

A recent report from the UN and Interpol titled «The Environmental Crime Crisis,» estimates that illegal environmental crime, from illegal logging to elephant poaching, generates up to $ 213 billion a year, with the majority of profits going to international crime syndicates and terrorist organizations.

Instead, they make the majority of their profit from those who cancel their policies or let them lapse by not making their payments.

Sure, the other divisions of Samsung too reported a huge profit, but Samsung S7 range took all the credit home as the majority of profit for the South Korean conglomerate arrived from Samsung's mobile division.

Amazon may be poised to disrupt the retail pharmacy business because it is a highly competitive market where the majority of profits are taken not on the drugs themselves, but on the household products, supplements, groceries and other purchases that customers make while browsing the aisles.

It should come as no surprise that Apple has once again cornered the majority of profits in this quarter, likely due to soaring sales of its iPhone lineup, joined by the recently unveiled iPhone 7.

# 2 You can get your license as an agent and simply do property management with the blessing of your broker, I know Keller Williams & RE / MAX in my area will allow you to do such things and they will let you keep the majority of the profit.

Robyn has rehabbed over 355 properties in her 16 years of investing and the majority of her profits were made on properties that were in a depressed market.