Sentences with phrase «margin than percentages»

As far as numbers go I find it way easier to work on a fixed minimum margin than percentages.

Not exact matches

«The higher percentage of sales in the hardware category resulted in better than expected comps, but lower gross margin dollars during the holiday selling period,» said GameStop's chief financial officer, Rob Lloyd.

«Actually E-Commerce is not that those margins are eroding; it's that those gross profit margin percentages are lower than others, and those businesses are actually growing very fast.

«A profitable firm at which 30 percent of leaders are women could expect to add more than 1 percentage point to its net margin compared with an otherwise similar firm with no female leaders,» the report notes.

Currently the margin debt of the NYSE expressed as a percentage of US GDP is 1.85 times higher than the median for the past 292 months of 1.55 %.

Cardno's EBIT margin, a measure of its operating profitability as a percentage of net revenue, fell from around 15 % in the boom years to less than 5 % now.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

After all, gross profit margin improved by more than a full percentage point in the prior quarter, rising to 52 % of sales.

Strong product revenue, which was $ 74 million above our expectations and was up an impressive 50 % year - over-year, contributed roughly $ 0.03 in earnings upside, with better - than - expected services gross margin and lower operating expense as a percentage of sales each contributing $ 0.02 of upside.»

In 15 of those countries, more women than men say this by margins ranging from 10 percentage points in Peru, Chile and the United States to 23 points in South Korea.

In 29 of those countries, more women than men reported praying daily by margins of 10 percentage points or more, ranging upward to 25 points in Greece.

He fares just a few percentage points better against Gillibrand than Long and Maragos in a poll with a 2.5 percent margin of error.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

And while Eachus had his largest percentage defeat in Ulster County, with Larkin winning by more than 16 percentage points, the margin was only about 1,200 votes.

Not one poll has shown Gillespie ahead in the race, one year after Clinton won Virginia by 6 percentage points — a closer - than - expected margin in a state with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators and that's voted for the Democratic nominee in three straight presidential contests.

Brat's margin of victory was 10 percentage points — more than 7,000 votes.

The probability that your vote will change the margin, rounded to the nearest percentage point, is about 1 in 1.3 million, so a similar calculation would tell you that it's irrational to vote if it costs you 8 dollars or more to do so (in terms of gas costs and time, for instance), unless you care more about changing the margin than about your survival.

The 10.6 percentage - point margin of victory for the No camp — despite Labour haemorrhaging almost 40 per cent of its voters to Yes — was wider than pollsters had predicted.

The poll's margin of error was 4.1 percentage points, and it surveyed more than 1,000 adults on the web or by phone Aug. 17 - 21.

By a 20 - percentage point margin, citizens are more likely than scientists to favor offshore oil drilling.

However, an analysis of individuals by political party reveals that support for universal vouchers has increased by 13 percentage points among Republicans (to 54 %) but fallen by 9 percentage points (to 40 %) among Democrats, whereas in 2016, Democrats were more supportive than Republicans of universal vouchers by an 8 - percentage point margin.

With only 35 percent of the public expressing opposition to the standards, a much higher percentage of Democrats than Republicans favor this Obama - backed policy, by a margin of 57 to 37 percent.

The partnership is expected to generate significant recurring synergies for MMC, equivalent to a 1 percentage point increase in operating profit margin in fiscal year 2017, 2 percentage points in fiscal year 2018, and more than 2 percentage points in fiscal year 2019.

Perhaps the margin of error is less than a percentage point which would mean there are twice as many eReader owners as Tablet owners.

In cases where a large margin call is issued or an account has a low equity percentage relative to its margin requirements, the account may be liquidated in less than 1 business day.

Studies have shown that managers will «hug» their respective benchmarks for job security — meaning that rather than try to beat their benchmark by a wide margin, they will stay within a few percentage points, plus or minus in order to still meet their goals.

Margin debt is at its highest level since the 1920s, though as a percentage of market capitalization, it is lower than it was in 2000.

Setting all that aside, if we assume that profit margins of domestic businesses are, say, 30 percent higher than where they should be and will be, then we also need to figure out what percentage of equity market index earnings come from domestic operations.

TradeMonster probably maintains a large percentage of margin traders than most discount brokerages.

[Plus we should think about net interest — currently at 10 % of total operating margin, but more than double that percentage in relation to operating free cash flow.

Not surprisingly, those who read one of the AAAS statements believed the level of agreement to be significantly higher than those who saw the cell phone ad (by a margin of nine percentage points).

Because things expressed in percentages are often easier to grasp than gross numbers normally both variable costs and contribution margin are expressed as a percentage of revenue.