Sentences with phrase «on tight margins»

Say your client engages in a particular type of transaction that by sheer numbers is profitable for the company, but on an individual basis runs on tight margins.

Tuli added that his firm manufactures LCD and touchscreens in India, which is more than half the cost of the devices, due to which he makes profits despite running on tight margins.

This could make the difference between go and no - go for an operator on tight margins.

We also came to realize that independent charter schools faced almost insurmountable hurdles in delivering high - quality academic instruction while running these small businesses on tight margins.

Hussmann explains that refrigeration systems, HVAC and lighting are responsible for as much as 90 percent of the energy used in a store, and refrigeration systems can be as much as 60 percent of that total — giving an industry that operates on tight margins greater incentive to reduce energy consumption.

Whether this is because the third sector is ahead of the curve or because they often operate on the tightest margins clearly depends on who you speak to!

Not exact matches

Telecom Italia said Thursday that full - year net profit fell 6.3 % on declining margins and tighter competition in the domestic wireline market.

Restaurants are often laggards when it comes to adopting new technology, but rising labor costs due to higher minimum wage and labor shortages coupled with food inflation has some looking to solutions that can provide some relief from the increased pressure on already tight margins.

Combined with the tight margins of the stressed farm economy and fierce business competition, this confluence of dynamics has ratcheted up the pressure on the agriculture retail sector.

Key steps along this path include completion of the transition to full implementation of Basel III, including new liquidity requirements; enhanced prudential standards for systemically important firms, including risk - based capital requirements, a leverage ratio, and tighter prudential buffers for firms heavily reliant on short - term wholesale funding; expansion of the regulatory umbrella to incorporate all systemically important firms; the institution of an effective, cross-border resolution regime for systemically important financial institutions; and consideration of regulations, such as minimum margin requirements for securities financing transactions, to limit leverage in sectors beyond the banking sector and SIFIs.

Tight margins across the on - and off - trade also contributed to gross margin falling by 1 percentage point to 8.6 %.

on the chances the team had... It's really tight at the moment in the league, it's small margins.

Unofficial results indicate Republicans will hold their narrow majority in the county legislature, the call for a constitutional convention fell on deaf ears by a near 6 - 1 margin and races in some towns were extremely tight.

Online bookmakers have very tight profit margins, so some offer generous odds for very short periods of time on certain matches to lure automated or expert betting systems out into the open, says economist David Forrest at the University of Liverpool, UK.

On tight mountain passes with little margin for error, the hefty 2018 Ford Mustang GT PP1 inspires confidence, tackling hairpins with the sort of speed that would make earlier iterations of the grand tourer need to back down.

They do have a reputation for pushing publishers on price, sometimes beyond what small publishers, who have very tight margins, can afford.

They run on such tight margins and on such tight budgets that they can't afford to buy books they are not sure of selling.

Lender margins are tighter on consolidation loans, due to fees paid to the US Department of Education, so their annual profit on a consolidation loan is lower.

In contrast, I've often quoted the Shiller P / E (which essentially uses a 10 - year average of inflation - adjusted earnings) as a simple but historically informative alternative, but I should emphasize that we strongly prefer our standard methodologies based on earnings, forward earnings, dividends and other fundamentals, all which have a fairly tight relationship with subsequent 7 - 10 year total returns (see Lessons from a Lost Decade, The Likely Range of Market Returns in the Coming Decade, Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings, and No Margin of Safety, No Room for Error).

As a note, copper supply is a bit tighter than iron ore so margin improvements or weakness in the global economy have a greater impact on prices.

And if you run your own business, swings in prices can be tough on your ability to turn a profit if your margins are tight.

This is one of the reasons why we produce better efficiency and better margins than anybody else because we integrate extremely tightly, we sell in a very tight manner and so on.

Also, if you evaluate based on FCF, current / historical margins are in a much tighter / more predictable range — another sign of quality.

If some want to gamble on companies, let them go to Vegas; the margin requirments will be tighter.

All this means that Virtua Racing isn't impossible, but the margins are tighter than Scrambles» wallet on a night out!

It could also be strongly argued that Mr Pickles actions and reported 2015 Conservative manifesto proposals regarding on - shore wind and solar farms could further jeopardize the UK's very tight energy security margins.

to blame tight margins on the drive to decarbonise the UK's electricity sector.

Regulators could raise questions about card games and tabletop role - playing games that bank on similar mechanics with much tighter profit margins.

However, if you are having trouble condensing your letter to fit on a single page you can shorten up the top, bottom and side margins to 3/4» or 1/2» or even a little tighter.

They make the margins so tight that a recruiter's eyes can't focus on the great information that they have to share.

Tight margins, and fear of the seller just putting the property on the market.

Small businesses often work on very tight margins, so even a small loss from a cyberattack can mean hamstringing your business plans.

I do know that sometimes first time investors tend to overpay on wholesaler properties and run margins too tight with rehabs - so be cautious.

The margins are tight on this flip, so they need to balance inexpensive cosmetic fixes with big renovations in the kitchen and master suite.