Sentences with phrase «majority of their profit from»

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.

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

The vanity press publisher owns the ISBN and is listed as the publisher of the book, entitling that company to the majority of the profits from all book sales.

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.

From everything I've read, it appears that publishers make the majority of their profits from the «big name» authors.

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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.

«In reality, the majority of organizations don't necessarily understand exactly where their profits are coming from, where their key missions are being driven from, and the key things they would need to be able to do and in what timeframe if that was disrupted,» says Lyndon Bird, international technical director of the Caversham, England - based Business Continuity Institute, which provides business continuity certification and guidance for companies around the world.

But the $ 11.34 billion gain from the new tax law made up the vast majority of its reported $ 12.27 billion fourth quarter profit.

Philip Morris (pm), the maker of Marlboro cigarettes everywhere except the United States, gets the vast majority of its sales and profits from traditional cigarettes, which kill an estimated 6 million people a year worldwide.

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.

Thus, Snap, Facebook, Google, Alibaba, and Apple, all with the vast majority of their revenues coming from single lines of business, look more vulnerable than Microsoft, Amazon, and Tencent, whose revenues and profits are spread out more evenly across multiple sources.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests principally in equity securities of companies that derive a majority of their revenues or profits from, or have a majority of their assets in, a country or countries other than the U.S..

While Qualcomm gets the majority of its sales from making phone chips, it pulls in most of its profit from charging fees for patents that cover the fundamentals of all modern phone systems.

As we discussed last quarter, we continue to view Olive Garden as a business where the vast majority of fundamentals remain competitively strong from average unit volumes and restaurant level profit margins to brand perception and employee retention.

However, the overwhelming majority of Parker's profits come from its replacement parts business.

The majority of surveyed firms reported revenue and profit increases from their Asian operations — as a share of total revenues and profits — over the last two years.

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.

The reality is that profiting from ETF and stock trading in a raging bull market is not that difficult because a vast majority of stocks will trend higher, but what separates amateurs from the professionals is the ability to hold on to those profits when the stock market inevitably changes direction, which usually occurs quite swiftly.

Since the vast majority of Google's profits come from AdWords advertising, these high CPC keyword categories are responsible for a large part of Google's profits.

However, it's much less common to talk about the role that white and majority churches played in and profited from American forms of slavery.

He bought the majority of the shares for the club, which he's getting back from only thinking profit.

The requirement to make a profit may have prevented the Gunners from maintaining success, but the aim has always been to win and the majority now believe in the stewardship of Arsene Wenger, who himself has worked harder than ever to keep the team competitive.

Bonomo took a leave of absence from the not - for - profit corporation that June after word surfaced that his company PRI was one of several companies to provide a sinecure to Adam Skelos, son of the former State Senate Majority Leader.

As of 2011, 35 % of business activity and 43 % of profits in the People's Republic of China resulted from companies in which the state owned a majority interest.

Hundreds of companies are ferociously competing to be your publisher - for - pay, selling you a package with one of their ISBNs that will put most of the money you earn from your book sales that you generate into their pockets, publishing your book the way they think will make them the most money, and claiming the majority of your book sales» profits as if they've done anything that remotely resembles what a mainstream traditional publisher would do to publish and promote your book, generate targeted reader interest, and earn every single sale to each individual reader.

While this figure is up 11 % from an earlier 2010 survey, Aptara shows the majority of publishers are «struggling to maximize profits» from the eBook market.

However, this shows a poor sense of the history of the industry — because just a few decades ago, the majority of both profits and stability came from the midlist, not the breakout hits.

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Since the majority of Qualcomm's profits are derived from licensing, a major change in the manner fees and royalties are calculated could produce large declines in profits.

This is all because when it comes to the distribution phase, the vast majority of the withdrawals come from basis (return of the original money you invested), and not «profit» (AKA unrealized capital gains).

The majority of his gains came from stocks (AMEX for instance resulted in around $ 20 million profit, which was around a fifth of the total value of the partnership when he wound it down).

The motion, which was sponsored by Fine Gael councillor Marie Baker, passed by a majority of 27 - 10, winning support from members of every political party, including nine out of eleven Fine Gael councillors, four out of seven Fianna Fáil councillors, all Green Party, Sinn Fein and People Before Profit councillors, and five out of six independents.

The majority of the trade is carried out not between polluting industries and factories covered by carbon trading schemes, but by banks and investors who profit from speculation on the carbon markets - packaging carbon credits into increasingly complex financial products similar to the «shadow finance» around sub-prime mortgages which triggered the recent economic crash.

While Turow doubts that greed is the principal motivation for the overwhelming majority of lawyers, he questions whether lawyers aren't subtly influenced by the prospect of increased profit to perform certain marginal tasks that may have been unnecessary from the client's standpoint.

While under the letter of the law Elmer was entitled to his inheritance, the majority ruling from the New York Court of Appeals laid out what has become known as the slayer rule: A killer shouldn't be able to profit from killing.

The Big Three — Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group — control a vast majority of that ecosystem, leaving just a small amount of revenue and zero profit for Spotify to recoup from its 70 million paying subscribers.

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.

Bitcoin's protocol intentionally makes mining difficult, meaning that gaining control of a majority of the network is extremely expensive - enough that it would be hard to profit from the attack.

Any hotel or restaurant that turns a profit knows the majority of revenues can't come from room services alone.

Like many not - for - profit organizations, The Mustard Seed's primary source of funding is private, with the majority of donations coming from corporate and individual private donors.

The vast majority of my customers who have used hard money loans get away from them, because virtually all of the profit in the deal is mitigated with interest and fees from hard money lenders.