Sentences with phrase «much margin of»

The question is how much margin of safety there is in paying that type of multiple.

Not exact matches

It was in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Florida, where the margin of victory for Trump was at times as thin as can be — so much so that Michigan has yet to be officially called — that he won the presidency.

The healthy profit margins enjoyed so far by the likes of Samsung and especially Apple are coming under pressure, which is why there's been so much chatter lately about the possibility of a cheaper iPhone.

Among them, companies that raise money under Title III may run the risk of exposing too much of their inner workings — for example their revenue size, margins, and profitability — too early on.

It's all done consciously, but what we now know through research is that while that remains an extremely useful aspect of intelligence, there's an awful lot more that's going on on the margins of the mind, areas that are much more hazy or poetic.»

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).

Startups like Instacart and TaskRabbit have recently cut large numbers of employees and undergone strategic realignments, as they try to figure out crucial details such as how much to pay people and what profit margins to expect.

But these days, in an industry that IATA predicts will have an average profit margin of 0.5 % in 2012 and whose members are doing everything they can to differentiate themselves in the market to stay competitive, not so much.

And, according to some analyses, Chipotle may have been discounting as much as 20 percent of its transactions in Q1 — a particularly painful margin - hit on top of an already steep revenue decline.

It also sold non-branded products that took up far too much store space, while accounting for just 20 percent of annual revenue with what Lemonis described as «terrible» margins.

There's also not much margin to squeeze out of shoe retailers.

This is how much money you have left after you have subtracted the direct costs from the selling price of your product or service: income minus direct costs equals gross margin.

Low - margin jobs result in as much wear and tear on equipment as high - margin jobs, shortening the life of the equipment without delivering comparable profit.

Elite staffers all can tell you exactly how much revenue their employer pulled in last year: $ 27 million, with a profit margin of about 20 percent.

As a further example, if your business sells paintings, the profit margin calculation tells you on average, when a person pays for a painting, how much of that money you will keep in profit.

A business» profit margin is a key piece of information about whether or not the business is producing income, and if so, how much.

But mostly if you raise $ 15 — 20 million and so do 4 — 5 of your competitors there is that much more incentive for «bad behavior,» which is where the «winner - take - all» mentality forces growth over margins.

She noted that with the $ 15 minimum wage (a frequent point of comparison in the discussion) Safeway chose to absorb the cost of the minimum wage instead of cutting jobs or passing the costs on to consumers, but that made Seattle Safeway stores» profit margin half as much as stores in other locations.

This would sharply enhance growth rates during the expansion phase, much like margin borrowing enhances returns when market prices are rising faster than the debt servicing costs, but at the expense of sub-par performance once conditions reverse.

Even if you keep income needs the same i only pay an average federal rate of 14 % right now which is much less then my margin.

By the time I published my latest (July 17) blog entry Beijing had managed to stop the panic with the use of what I called «brute force», by which I meant that there was never likely to be much impact from interest rate moves, regulatory changes, margin relaxation, and so on.

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.

While MCD doesn't have as much of a margin of safety in the share price as I'd normally like, with a very long - term investing horizon, I feel comfortable paying up a little for a quality stock as I detailed here.

For much of 2017, Oclaro had virtually no competition for this key product, which allowed it to earn margins well above its competitors, as shown in Figure 2.

Indeed, even Robert Shiller's cyclically - adjusted P / E (CAPE) is much better correlated with actual subsequent market returns, across a century of market cycles, when we account for the profit margin embedded in the 10 - year average of earnings.

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.

Of course, given that Shiller's raw CAPE is also much less reliable than our margin - adjusted variant, a decline in the Shiller CAPE, driven by a statistical artifact of its own construction, will not make stocks any less hypervalueOf course, given that Shiller's raw CAPE is also much less reliable than our margin - adjusted variant, a decline in the Shiller CAPE, driven by a statistical artifact of its own construction, will not make stocks any less hypervalueof its own construction, will not make stocks any less hypervalued.

And of course that margin, where we are as a handset business, is much better than what we're getting here today.

The company also reported a strong gain in operating profit, thanks in part to the positive effects of much lower green coffee costs on its gross margin.

Much as Walton promised his executives he would dance the hula on Wall Street if Wal - Mart reached a certain mark of profitability — and followed through — Sicupira, upon achieving a 6 percent Ebitda margin at Lojas Americanas, did the samba in carnaval dress in downtown Rio.

LBO's introduce way too much debt to allow any of it to ever be re-paid, especially since so many categories in retail operate on low margins in the first place.

It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren't interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5 % of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better.

The group expects revenue growth of as much as 5 percent this year, and an operating margin of between 6.5 and 7.5 percent.

Though Sanmina's fiscal second - quarter operating margin of 3.1 % is much narrower than in the year - ago period, it's notably up from 2.7 % in the company's first quarter of fiscal year 2018.

It's a much higher - margin business, and the company is in the process of separating it, giving investors today an opportunity to own a piece of that unique company before its separation.

If a stock drops too much, a margin holder could lose all of their investment and possibly owe money to their broker as well.

Much of the recent growth in margin debt has reflected an increase in the average loan size, which has risen by around $ 13,000 to $ 107,000 over the past year.

Operating margin measures how much profit a company makes on a dollar of sales, after paying for variable costs of production such as wages and raw materials, but before paying interest or tax.

You're right that the margin of safety is so much smaller in bonds because the yield won't be there to pick up the slack.

Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) is a unique credit card issuer with an impressive profit margin, Bank of America is a much - improved bank that's consistently getting better, and Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) is a well - run airline that could be a big beneficiary of tax reform.

With the new T - Mobile deal providing a big boost to revenue, its margins continuing to expand, and plenty of cash on hand with which to invest in growth, we think IQNT can do much better than the market seems to expect.

(Reuters)- Mallinckrodt Plc (MNK.N) is exploring a sale of its generic drug unit, in a deal that could fetch as much as $ 2 billion and help pivot the specialty pharmaceutical maker toward higher - margin branded drugs, according to people familiar with the matter.

«The absence of deteriorating conditions for most firms, both in terms of hiring and margins, does much to explain Beijing's reluctance to introduce more large - scale stimulus,» Leland Miller, China Beige Book International president, said in a statement with Craig Charney, research and polling director.

Even though there is much to like about CWGL, we find it hard to make a case that it offers a compelling valuation with a sufficient margin of safety at its current valuation.

Irrespective of that, we know that because there has been so much value created in the space that there will be a lot of business models that will come together, and they will be funded in order to continue to disrupt businesses that have higher margins.

As for the Senate, the Republicans» margin of control is much slimmer (51 to 49, if we include the two independents that often vote with the Democrats).

While only about 11 percent of Amazon retail's $ 29 billion in earnings, AWS» margins are much higher — $ 1 billion compared to Amazon retail's $ 360 million.

The elevation of stock prices has had much to do with unusually wide profit margins resulting from a depressed share of GDP going to wages and salaries.

The anchoring of investor expectations to a period of rich valuations and unusually wide profit margins may not be reasonable, but it prevents any ability to «forecast» a significant near term decline, much less a sustained downtrend.

Specifically, SNA's NOPAT margin is much higher than the 9 % earned by Stanley Black & Decker, which is one of the best comparables in the tools industry.