Sentences with phrase «prices raises profits»

The only case in which increasing prices raises profits is when the price was absurdly low to begin with, as in the case of one author who raised his price from $ 0.99 to $ 2.99 and started selling more books.

Not exact matches

But what about raising the prices to farmers, maintaining the prices to consumers and taking less profit?

The extra money has to come from somewhere, whether lowering other costs, raising prices, or reducing profit expectations.

Gold and nickel producer Independence Group has raised its full - year profit by 60.7 per cent to $ 46.6 million on the back of the production commencement at Tropicana and an improved nickel price in the second half of the year.

CHICAGO, May 2 (Reuters)- Kraft Heinz Co's quarterly profit beat expectations as the Tater Tots - maker benefited from tax reforms in the United States and raised prices to counter higher input costs.

CHICAGO, May 2 - Kraft Heinz Co's quarterly profit beat expectations as the Tater Tots - maker benefited from tax changes in the United States and raised prices to counter higher input costs, sending shares up 4 percent after the bell.

CHICAGO, May 2 - Kraft Heinz Co's quarterly profit beat expectations as the Tater Tots - maker benefited from tax reforms in the United States and raised prices to counter higher input costs.

And once people start paying a lower price, it's tough to raise it back to the level you need to make a good profit.

In a counterintuitive move, Ingrassio decided to boost profits and ease production pressures by raising prices for the first time in his business's history.

Companies that use steel and aluminum in their products say tariffs would raise their costs, eating into profits or forcing them to raise prices or lay off workers.

Second, corporate profits are still high by historical standards, so businesses still have a lot of room to absorb wage increases before they would have to raise prices.

The wage pop [last Friday's 2.9 % growth in hourly wages] spooked the markets because investors, already skittish as valuations were a bit steep (though not as bad as people have been saying, given strong current and expected corporate earnings), envisioned this sequence: wage growth gooses price growth (i.e., inflation), which raises both market and Federal Reserve interest rates, which slows growth and shaves corporate profit margins.

Even as companies» quarterly results have come in strong, their earnings calls have raised concerns that rising commodity prices may pinch profit margins in the future.

I think health care prices are inelastic, I could have raised it higher and made more profits for our shareholders, which is my primary duty.»

Rather than giving American companies an edge, they might just raise prices by 15 % or so, making their products just a little cheaper than Canadian lumber while increasing their own profits.

CHICAGO, May 2 Kraft Heinz Co's quarterly profit beat expectations as the Tater Tots - maker benefited from tax changes in the United States and raised prices to counter higher input costs, sending shares up 4 percent after the bell.

At a Forbes summit in New York this month, wearing a hooded sweatshirt, he said if he could have done it over, «I probably would have raised the price higher,» adding, «My investors expect me to maximize profits.»

It's just that demand is too high, so firms decide they can increase profits by raising their prices above other firms» prices rather than continuing to produce enough output to meet demand at existing prices.

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

This raises the price of these materials to U.S. manufacturers, squeezing their profits.

Unless you have a big profit cushion in a position and can hold through a 20 % to 30 % price correction without feeling too much pressure, it may be wise to raise the stop prices on any open positions you are holding (then wait for lower risk re-entry points to emerge).

Barring that, Netflix will be able to raise prices to lock in profits.

That spells a big hit to profits for companies that rely on gig workers, and could raise prices for users.

The SNB's «profit was lifted by a trio of positive forces: Low bond yields preserved the value of its foreign bonds; higher equity prices raised the value of SNB holdings... and the weaker Swiss currency made those foreign assets worth more in franc terms.»

Like Mr Scott, Mr Durkan dismissed suggestions Coles has been raising prices to fatten margins, reiterating that margins and profits are an outcome and Coles» focus remains on growing sales.

The new price discipline allows UNP to raise its prices far faster than its costs leading to increased returns and profit margins rivaling those of Google.

Canadian products often need to be tested for the US market and once again — or more than once, depending on provincial and territorial requirements — for the Canadian market, raising prices for Canadian consumers and reducing profits for companies.

Carefully controlled experiments not only attempted to divine the shape of a demand curve — which shows just how much of a product people will buy as you keep raising the price, allowing retailers to find the optimal, profit - maximizing figure.

If the movie theaters ever make a bigger profit, even from concessions, the studios can just raise the price of film rental.

Once price hits first profit target raise the stop loss to breakeven and if price follows through to higher levels, trail the stop loss.0400000 points behind until second profit target is reached or stopped out.

You talking about companies like Papa John's who would rather have screwed his employees all over the nation rather than raise pizza prices by 5 cents in order to keep his current profit margin and cover all his employees, but he gets his 6 - 7 figure salary and that's completely necessary to keep the company running.

Instead Woolworths raised prices and improved its retail profits.

Unwilling to make the same mistakes as his predecessors, who raised prices to boost margins and shareholder returns, chief executive Brad Banducci has made it clear Woolworths will continue to invest «materially» to underpin sustainable growth in supermarkets after decimating profits by sinking more than $ 1 billion into prices and service in 2016 and 2017.

Continuing to buy ingredients (as the price increases) will raise your costs and in turn lower your profits.

This will encourage profitable teams like the Knicks to not just grow profits by raising ticket prices and expanding marketing, but to actually make smarter basketball decisions.

History tells us that companies with profit - margins to consider will generally put cost - price before nutrition, and whether or not sufficient subsidy could be raised to alter this approach is the point at issue.

Charitable organizations and other not - for - profit operators can't raise prices to meet the cost of doing business

CNNMoney: AIG stock sale raises $ 8.7 billion Shares of American International Group's long - awaited stock sale priced at $ 29 apiece late Tuesday to raise $ 8.7 billion, leaving the U.S. government with a tiny profit on the offering, the company and Treasury Department announced.

At times, they have raised or lowered prices per pack anywhere from $ 0.65 - 1.25 per pack to reduce declines in profit.

PR NEWSWIRE - June 6 - First Quarter 2011 Highlights - Income from operations increased 52 % YOY to $ 19.7 M - Adjusted EBITDA increased 33 % YOY to $ 27.2 M - Net loss decreased from $ 0.60 per share in 2010 to $ 0.27 per share in 2011 - Raised $ 50M in gross proceeds from IPO Q1 2011 Revenue was $ 83.5 M, gross profit was $ 56.8 M. On May 11, 2011, FriendFinder completed its IPO, and issued 5M shares of common stock at a price of $ 10.00 per share.

Whenever adding a 3rd party reseller, you always have to raise prices to account for the resellers profits.

But to do that, Venture plans to raise the price of the car for customers such as Cox and cut into Series 1 dealer gross profits.

-- Use the combination of new designs and technologies to minimize the need for high - cost incentives to sell cars, raising transaction prices and profits.

How did Amazon become the bad guys during an investigation into whether or not Apple and several publishers violated anti-trust laws in order to artificially raise prices for reading consumers, thereby resulting in an increase in their own profits as well?

This, combined with the fact that Amazon hasn't announced that it plans to raise the price of its electronic books, offers hope that Amazon's profits will soar even higher (according to that PW article I just referenced, Amazon's stock already climbed by 63.1 % in that period from December 31 to June 30.

«Collusion between firms to set minimum prices is «slam dunk» illegal, especially when one of the first effects of the price fixing, after increasing consumer cost, has been to raise publisher profits.»

Lower sales might be the start of a trend, but when it gives us room to all raise our prices, the trend might be higher profits.

I believe that they have raised the prices to make a bigger profit AND protect their paper book industry.

The moment they start raising prices to earn a fair profit is the moment they lose their competitive edge.

HTC, Samsung, Motorola, etc., would have to make a profit, which would raise the price of the tablets.