Sentences with phrase «margin business from»

While the company will continue to sell a range of higher - end servers and mainframes, offloading the x86 division removes a low - margin business from its books.

Not exact matches

The company attributed the performance to its international business, where it saw higher expenses, lower profit margins and weaker gains from sales of assets.

As an example, if every customer paid with credit, a small family business would see its profit reduced from $ 50,000 to $ 35,000 — and if their margins before card fees were closer to 5 %, then you are looking at cutting their profit from $ 50,000 to $ 20,000!

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

A business can gain many benefits from behaving responsibility, but the impacts of corporate philanthropy go far beyond profit margin and increased sales.

A closer look at Market Basket's operations under Arthur T. Demoulas suggests that its industry - beating 7.2 percent operating margins in 2012, cited by the Boston Business Journal, derive from six secrets: long - term employee relationships, low overhead, bulk purchasing, low prices, no debt and treating employees and customers like family.

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.

Europe's top technology company SAP announced a $ 2.4 billion U.S. acquisition to help it boost revenues from its cloud platform and CEO Bill McDermott said it would streamline its overall business this year to bolster margins.

RBC says that increasing Android sales — and lower Apple - related revenues — are better for margins, while cutting corporate general and administrative expenses from 10 % of North American sales to about 8 % would save the business about $ 840 million.

Osteryoung suggests that you look for resources in your industry, such as the annual statement studies on small and mid-sized business financial benchmarks from Risk Management Associates, to help you determine whether your profit margin is on target.

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.

Wood said major maintenance turnarounds at the two U.S. refineries Cenovus owns with partner Phillips 66 prevented its downstream operations from realizing the benefit of good profit margins in that business.

Activision reported a rise in revenue from its high - margin digital business to $ 1.35 billion (about 84 % of its total revenue of $ 2 billion, which was just shy of their projection of 2.01 billion).

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.

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

Hargreaves Lansdown's Laith Khalaf: «There are clear benefits from the two supermarkets joining forces, particularly when it comes to leveraging their combined buying power, which should result in both lower prices for customers and higher margins for the business.

Tyson Foods (TSN) bought Hillshire Brands for $ 8.5 billion two years ago and that brand is expected to have seen strong sales in the most recent quarter, while Tyson's chicken business also likely benefitted from higher margins thanks to cost - cutting measures.

But if I took the product out of it, and said here's a business that went from zero to $ 100 million in two years, they have the fastest growth in paid subscribers at 67 percent gross margins, that's a really interesting 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.

While IoT is a very low - margin business compared to other digital consumer services like mobile phones, Nokia notes that healthcare is one of the big opportunities, citing analysts» forecasts of market CAGR of 37 %, making it «the fastest growing health care segment from 2015 - 2020.»

The company said revenue from its high - margin digital business, rose 13 percent to $ 1.21 billion.

The x86 server business has become an industry of large volumes and slim margins — where one competitor's products are hard to distinguish from another's.

They have drawn their funding from the expanding capital markets, and taken advantage of lower operating costs to undercut banks» lending rates in a traditionally high margin line of business.

These initiatives, along with similar moves in other markets, will likely weigh on profits at the outset, but Coke should ultimately emerge from this transition period as a higher - margin, less - capital intensive business.

Bloomberg reported that while Alibaba has entered many businesses outside e-commerce, these segments are far off from generating profits for the group and its main revenue driver will continue to be its core business thanks to the high margins this sector offers.

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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.

While executives were careful to stress that there are currently no plans to sell Tim Hortons brew in Burger King stores, Tristano says there's still an opportunity for Burger King's owners to benefit from being involved directly in the coffee business, where it can now make bigger margins off the purchase, roasting and sale of the coffee itself.

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.

We also have experienced, and may experience in the future, gross margin declines in certain businesses, reflecting the effect of items such as competitive pricing pressures, inventory write - downs and increases in component and manufacturing costs resulting from higher labor and material costs borne by our manufacturers and suppliers that, as a result of competitive pricing pressures or other factors, we are unable to pass on to our customers.

A firm that has high gross profit margins from a sustainable business from a core product like bleach, laundry detergent, or chocolate, to provide an illustration, is going to be much harder to put out of business when the economy turns down than one that has razor - thin margins.

A business's contribution margin is the money left over from sales after paying all variable expenses associated with producing a product.

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.

It is our belief that large institutional investors, Wall Street analysts and the news media alike continue to misunderstand Apple and generally fail to value Apple's net cash separately from its business, fail to adjust earnings to reflect Apple's real cash tax rate, fail to recognize the growth prospects of Apple entering new categories, and fail to recognize that Apple will maintain pricing and margins, despite significant evidence to the contrary.

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.

Operating profit before tax rose 39 % to ₤ 67m thanks to annuity sales growth of 19 % to ₤ 742m and a significant rise in new business profit margin, to 8.9 % from 5.0 % in the same period last year.

The school of today is a far cry from the original days as the Faculty of Business, which was created by a narrow margin of just one vote in a General Faculty Council decision in May of 1967.

In the firm's construction products segment, for instance, sales in western Europe dropped 27 percent as a result of unfavorable exchange rates, a «weak» construction environment and Grace's exit from «low - margin business.»

The Chamber organized meetings with negotiators from the three countries, U.S. congressional representatives, and diverse business groups on the margins of the rounds, with more than 60 U.S. business representatives taking part.

Its valuable patent portfolio and high - margin services business could draw interest from technology companies.

I think Michael Dell is an incredible entrepreneur, and the business model he developed for Dell Computer allowed him to reap incredible rewards from an industry with commodity characteristics, mean - reverting profit margins, and low barriers to entry.

In 2016, Mr Neal announced the insurer would hike prices after it's insurance margins in its Australia and New Zealand business fell from 14.8 per cent in the first half of 2015 to 8.9 per cent in the first half of 2016.

I think the valuation is just average, but I think if this develops into a larger issue then customer attrition comes into play, which is a problem for a bank like Wells that relies on its huge business that it does in the retail bank (57 % of its income comes from the retail bank, of which a large percentage is high margin revenue that comes from cross-selling, the very practice that it will now almost certainly begin to slow).

Early on, high margins can put your business in your best possible position to grow and over time, the savings generated from low costs can add up.

We give PRGO a slight increase in margins due to Mylan's ability to aggressively market / advertise using resources from MYL's other profitable business lines.

Many of these high - margin tech businesses benefit from secular growth in trends such as online advertising, social media, cloud adoption and e-commerce.

CEOs of gold and silver mining companies should understand whether gold and silver prices are «underpriced» more so than the common person, as it is their business to understand how to maximize the returns and margins from the sales of their inventories of precious metals.

Treasury Wine Estates, the owner of Penfolds and Wolf Blass, is sitting on an $ 800 million pot of gold of luxury wines in its cellars, which should lift profit margins even higher in a buoyant business which is now making more profits from Asia than from its home base of Australasia.

Three years ago, profit margins in Treasury's Asian business were 38.8 per cent in its maiden full - year results after it demerged from Foster's, although Mr Clarke explained that figure was skewed somewhat because Treasury had little infrastructure on the ground in China then.

The questionable and often illegal comptetion from Chinese companies creates razor thin margins for all sizes of business in the US.