Sentences with phrase «margin business focused»

They're a low - margin business focused on products and customers, not books and readers.

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HP's third - quarter report is expected to show earnings that barely beat analysts» expectations after the company focused on cost - cutting and higher - margin business areas ahead of the impending split of its computer and printer businesses from its enterprise hardware and service arm.

By creating a margin - focused and reliability - focused business, Backblaze was able to profitably add the ability to do what Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others have at a much lower price of $ 0.005 a gigabyte stored or accessed a month (in comparison to Amazon or Microsoft's $ 0.022).

However, it appears many small business owners are instead focusing on slow and steady growth, and driving up productivity to increase margins with the use of technology, fewer workers, and more hours.

He also focused on the high gross margin segment of the business.

The company is focusing more resources on higher - value specialty materials products like semiconductors for cell phones and moving away from the lower - margin chlorine business.

Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run - rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of remaining net cash (vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin company would put the stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.

My focus, as a business owner, was to produce the best product I could and get as many customers to buy it as possible (with a big enough margin to make a profit).

Billed by many on Wall St. as a financially inviable acquisition and «bailout» of a company bleeding cash to survive, Tesla began shifting SolarCity's business model almost immediately following its acquisition — shifting previously focused efforts on door - to - door sales and long term leases to sales of products with the highest profit margin.

Brookfield Business Partners acquires high quality businesses and applies its global investing and operational expertise to create value, with a focus on profitability, sustainable margins and sustainable cash flows.

MUMBAI Infosys Ltd, India's second - biggest IT firm, plans to renew its focus on digital services as it looks to boost growth amid shrinking profit margins in its legacy business and rising competition from local and international rivals.

He slashed the number of research projects, from 6,800 to about 40, and cut costs across the company's PC and printer divisions, focusing instead on building higher - margin software and services businesses.

Likewise, if you run your own business and focus on keeping costs low, margins sufficiently high, and reduce spending in - line, you're probably going to come out ahead of the game by using these downturns to dollar cost average into your portfolio.

Companies are still very focused on currency trends that are impacting their business as well as on margin pressures — whether it's cost inflation through wage growth or price deflation and the compressing of margins.

Crane was purchased with the idea that its transition from a holding company with a collection of high quality, niche businesses to a fully integrated, operations - focused business would result in high returns, improved margins and a better stock price.

Margins are a metric that assess a company's efficiency in converting sales to profits, and different types of margins focus on different parts of the business pMargins are a metric that assess a company's efficiency in converting sales to profits, and different types of margins focus on different parts of the business pmargins focus on different parts of the business process.

With this shift came an increased focus on healthy products (both beverage and food), but also a shift into higher margin segments of PepsiCo's business.

The showrooming phenomenon has resulted in lower gross profit margins and increasing focus on customer retention that often takes the form of a subscription business model and a membership mentality.

He suggests that the tech world is focused on high margin, low volume businesses in which companies fight it out to win over customers and sell high margin software or hardware to a relatively smaller numbers of customers.

«The business will continue to work on capturing demand and margins in the second half of the year, just as it did in the first half, by focusing on our consumer and food service volumes and those of speciality ingredients.»

This agreement is an important part of positioning RiceBran Technologies to focus on creating shareholder value by pursuing long - term opportunities to expand our core ingredients business that will improve our margins and EBITDA and generate positive returns on capital.»

The key elements of our business strategy are to build and enhance leading brands, focus on opportunities in high - growth and high - margin categories, increase presence in high - margin channels and packages, leverage our integrated business model, strengthen our route - to - market and improve operating efficiency.

He said the company's focus in the second half of the financial year was to continue to make revenue and margin gains in its existing operational businesses while expanding its revenue base with a number of initiatives.

Operating under the core philosophies of 80/20 business processes, customer - back innovation and a decentralized entrepreneurial culture, ITW's seven industry - leading segments leverage the ITW business model to generate solid growth with best - in - class margins and returns in markets where highly innovative, customer - focused solutions are required.

When asked why Dell discontinued the Venue line of smartphones, the manufacturer admitted that the phones had run their course internally and that the lifecycle for phones was much shorter in the US than in the aforementioned emerging markets, while admitting that it would rather focus on its core enterprise businesses in the US and work to increase profit margins on its high - end laptop lines.

Despite notebooks raking in a gross margin of less than 4 percent last quarter, the market is expected to see an increase in 2012 when ASUS and Acer shift their focus back to the notebook business.

The company's focus on margins helps Altria grow with little money reinvested into the business.

Since then, the company has shifted its focus from a low - margin hardware business to IT services.

Businesses with opportunities to reduce costs and improve margins through internally focused efforts should be able to capitalize on operating leverage in an expanding economy or modestly grow earnings should sales remain flat.

Ramius further stated it believes a significant opportunity exists to adjust the cost structure of the Issuer to achieve acceptable operating margins, even at the current revenue run rate, and urged management and the Board to focus its attention on driving cost improvements by re-focusing on the Company's core businesses and de-emphasizing growth investments in non-core product lines such as WiMAX.

In fact, thanks to management's recent decision to sell underperforming businesses, such as Southern Comfort and Tuaca, and instead focus on higher margin and faster growing brands such as Slane Castle Irish Whiskey and BenRiach single - malt scotch, Brown - Forman enjoys some of the highest profitability in an already high margin industry.

Which implies an intense focus on intangibles like management, moats, business models, research & development, disruptive advantage, costs, margins, peer / sector analysis, scuttlebutt, and all manner of other SWOT, scenario & competitive analyses — yes, all the difficult & squishy stuff that never boils down nicely to a cheap price / book ratio.

The impact on earnings appears insignificant, at least initially, but it now focuses management exclusively on the higher margin cheese & nutritional businesses.

After spinning off Vectrus, Exelis will focus on the higher margin and faster growing defense electronics business.

by focusing on the company's profitable niche businesses and private label markets while bringing costs in line to sales volumes and gross margins.

It was a low margin, capital intensive business, and closing it enabled me to focus on bigger things that improved corporate profitability.

A rejig of operations to focus on higher - margin businesses could make it even better in terms of dividend growth and yield — the stock currently yields 2 %.

If you let go of the idea of predicting «when» and focus on «what» intrinsic value is and «how» to buy a partial stake in a real business, that you understand, with a margin of safety, there is some hope for you as a Graham value investor.

One interesting aspect is that they've been consolidating the business a bit recently by increasing focus on higher - margin personal care products.

It plans to expand the Call of Duty brand «with the same focus seen in its Blizzard Entertainment business unit» placing a focus on «high - margin digital online content and further the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models.»

Operating Profit in this segment was up 11 % YoY as Koei Tecmo's focus on in house development tools and digital business saw costs decrease and overall margin increase.

The focus will be on «high - margin digital online content and further the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models.»

This will include a focus on high - margin digital online content and further the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models.

'' Two degree scenarios need to become the new default setting for how companies report on their future business strategy — it's not clear what the oil majors are so afraid of that they resist focusing on a smaller higher margin business.»

Scenario One: a familiar dance unfolds as» Colgate - Palmolive Co. announced Tuesday it's buying Tom's of Maine, the leading maker of natural toothpaste...» «The $ 100 million cash deal for privately owned Tom's of Maine, which got its start in 1970 by producing a phosphate - free laundry detergent, reflects Colgate's strategy of focusing on the higher - margin oral and personal care businesses».

Steve Arundale, head of professional services at Natwest and RBS, said: «Improved revenue and profit levels are welcome but profit margin overall remains flat suggesting that improved efficiency was not a business focus in 2014, with many firms stretched and challenged to cope with increased instruction levels.

Xiaomi operates with a business model that focuses less on traditional marketing and high profit margins in an effort to push its software and services into the hands of as many consumers as possible.

It's no secret that display production is an increasingly tough business, with LCD production becoming less and less profitable and more focus being put on higher profit margin OLED panels.

Payroll Management is a time consuming task and with greater time demands and leaner profit margins, it is very important to focus on core business areas and simply outsource the non-core business functions.

Key Account Manager with insatiable passion and reputation for business leadership partnering with large OEM accounts to grow sales through customer - focused solutions and value - added products and services with consistent margins of 15 - 20 % annually in a recessed economy.