Sentences with phrase «majority of their profits»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

No longer do you have to pay a vanity press publisher for the privilege of letting them keep the majority of your profits.

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.

And if authors decide that on top of all the up - front costs, they also want to sacrifice a majority of their profits and not control their ISBN, that's also up to the authors.

The bigger problem for authors are the publishing houses themselves because with the decline in paper books, it simply makes no sense for an author to turn over the majority of her profits to one of these places and * that * costs the author far more than piracy.

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.

The actual returns are quite different because of the pricing of the book, and because of the different sales channels used (many of which allowed the majority of the profit to go to the actual author, unlike «traditional» publishing, and unlike what the larger e-book channels are becoming).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The company's enterprise business, which accounts for the vast majority of its revenues and profits, has locked in gushers of ongoing revenue.

A majority of small business owners anticipate revenue and profit increases in 2015.

About 100 Boardlist candidates (some of whom already sit on not - for - profit, for - profit, or advisory boards, and the vast majority of whom live in the U.S.) were asked a number of questions about their experiences in business, and also about the fact that so few women serve on corporate boards.

«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.

Now, with a majority interest in Skype slated to be sold to a collection of private investors, they're using their stake in Joltid to try to block the sale and recover millions of dollars in what they say are lost profits.

Outside estimates of pass - through business income have shown that it is a small number of large businesses that account for the majority of pass - through profits and economic activity, rather than true mom - and - pops.

The shift, which now covers the vast majority of new phones sold, has helped improve the carriers» profit margins while cutting into upgrade sales at phone makers, including Apple (aapl) and Samsung.

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.

The FCC clearly has put the ISPs profits above the benefits of consumers and of the overwhelming majority of businesses.

Meanwhile, other studies suggest that profit sharing may not be such a great motivator for the majority of workers.

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.

Companies that have adopted this have found that they are able to grant the request in the vast majority of cases, they have actually found that productivity has gone up, profits have gone up, staff morale has gone up and keeping staff is easier.

Someday soon, English - language media will probably generate a majority of Axel Springer's revenue and profits.

The majority of trading takes place in a series of for - profit, electronic venues that compete fiercely to facilitate trades and increase profits.

Recently, Amazon has started reporting consistent profits, largely due to the success of Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing business.192 Its North America retail business runs on much thinner margins, and its international retail business still runs at a loss.193 But for the vast majority of its twenty years in business, losses — not profits — were the norm.

Mr. Diess won favor with the Porsche and Piëch families, who own a majority of Volkswagen's voting shares, by improving profits at the division that makes Volkswagen - brand cars despite a decline in the number of vehicles sold.

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.

Tops said «the vast majority» of its 174 stores «are already sustainable profit centers, showing strong sales numbers» and offering the potential to generate strong cash flow in the coming years.

Because most ESOPs in closely held companies take place in situations where the founding owner wants to retire and cash out of the business, the issue of diluting profit per share and diluting the ownership and governance rights of majority shareholders is not a material issue in these cases.