Sentences with phrase «small margins on»

Such retailers make very small margins on the hardware and virtually all of their money on the games themselves — giving up consoles will hurt them a lot less than the manufacturers.

Rotem's sales pitch is that while owners may lose a small margin on sales, the new customers that come in should more than make up for it.

A third contingent, the smallest, make a wholesale switch to the new technology or business model, attempting to make smaller margins on a larger number of transactions, with mixed results.

So when I recommend precious metals, I do so not because I make a small margin on bullion sales, but because I believe that they should be in your portfolio.

However, as there's only a small margin on the Vita, the actual profit will be lower.

«Following the razor - blade model, Amazon appears to be taking a small margin on the razor (the Kindle) and planning to make it up on the blades (the e-books),» wrote analyst Paul Ausick of website 247WallSt.com.

Not exact matches

Making your minimum threshold too high: While free shipping on small purchases can eat away at your profit margin, it's a mistake to set your minimum qualifying purchase price too high, says John Lawson, an Atlanta - based e-commerce consultant.

Millennial small business owners have more confidence in their retirement savings than baby boomers, according to our survey, possibly because millennial owners started their business at a younger age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirement plans.

If sunroofs are «just breaking [on their own],» Corsi says, «it's likely to be a manufacturing flaw,» noting «the larger the piece of glass, the smaller the margin of error.»

Smaller financial technology companies can be flexible in crafting creative solutions to serve customers on the margins, said Lisa McFarland, an executive vice president at Ingo Money, which charges between 1 and 4 percent to deposit paychecks through a mobile app.

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.

To critics who say that small businesses will lose out if people can compare prices online, and that the businesses may be forced to charge prices that are too low just to compete, Mason said: «Even if a business might make a little less on each hamburger, they'll sell enough additional hamburgers to far outweigh the reduced margin.

Ted Mallett, VP and chief economist at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, says the difference for common household goods like detergent and diapers is largely due to the fact that retailers need higher margins in the smaller Canadian market; there are no tariffs on most items like these.

The world's largest drug manufacturer is facing steep competition from a slew of smaller generic players, and the recent loss of patent protection on its major branded drug, Copaxone, is threatening Teva's profit margins.

However, it appears many small business owners are instead focusing on slow and steady growth, and driving up productivity to increase margins with the use of technology, fewer workers, and more hours.

Finding clients was easy: The slumped economy fostered creation of the smallest businesses, such as individuals selling items on eBay and Etsy, who needed to keep track of myriad small payments with slight margins.

As a result, you may see a small increase in refining margins for those refiners with firm shipping capacity on Energy East, along with a decrease in refining margins for in - land refineries in Alberta.

Software companies usually sell at larger p / e ratios because they have much higher growth rates and earn higher returns on equity, while a textile mill, subject to dismal profit margins and low growth prospects, might trade at a much smaller multiple.

One effect that remains unclear is whether the growing regulatory burden, including from Dodd - Frank, is adding pressure on small banks to merge, at least on the margins.

Falling fees and rising costs are putting pressure on margins, especially for the smallest (less than $ 100 billion in AUM) managers.

Collect rents and / or for sale (profit margin based on cost to build small, eco friendly small residential communities.

«On the margin, each of these [digital] initiatives is probably a small component.

It's true that the largest of the large - cap stocks are less overvalued today than in 2000, but even on a capitalization - weighted basis, the difference is far smaller than one might think once profit margins are taken into account.

That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our measures of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the Fund can establish leverage only by investing a small percentage of assets in call options (never on margin).

Given 85 per cent of Caltex earnings are from fuel - related sales and refining margins, «even the smallest level of electric vehicle penetration would have a material impact on earnings,» the fund wrote on its website in October.

Margin investing can cause a person to sell a stock too early since small price decreases can turn into bigger losses on mMargin investing can cause a person to sell a stock too early since small price decreases can turn into bigger losses on marginmargin.

This report will also analyze the impact of smaller cabin seat sizes on the Company's profit margin and stock price.

The typical restaurant's profit margins of 3 to 5 percent are small enough, she notes, without awarding free giveaways to loyalty members on top of that.

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.

Indicator rates on variable - rate business loans have been largely unchanged over the past six months, although the average interest rate paid by small business borrowers on variable - rate loans — which includes indicator rates plus applicable risk margins — has continued to fall.

Measured across all loan products, and taking into account changes in customer risk margins, however, it seems that interest rates paid on average by small businesses have increased by a little less than the rise in interest rates directly due to the tightening of monetary policy.

This modestly exceeds the yield available on a 10 - year Treasury, but by a small margin that - outside the late 1990's bubble period - has previously been seen only during the two - year period approaching the 1929 peak, between 1968 - 1972 (which was finally cleared by the 73 - 74 market plunge), and briefly in 1987, before the crash of that year.

But today I want to highlight the importance of focusing on not overpaying aswell as trying to at least get a a small safety of margin.

Since you can control large amounts of a commodity with a relatively small amount of money on margin, you can leverage your portfolio to take advantage of price swings in the commodity without having to actually take delivery of thousands of gallons of gasoline — something that is impractical for everyone other than institutions (such as refiners, airlines, transportation fleets, gasoline retailers, etc.).

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.

If she had added: «Plus, even though we are currently above the Effective Lower Bound on nominal interest rates (which is probably below 0 %) we are worried that the margin of safety is getting a bit small, and are pleased that fiscal policy is making that margin of safety a bit bigger than it otherwise would be» that would also be an internally consistent thing for the Bank of Canada to say.

Banks» margins on small business lending, which have narrowed since mid 1997, might narrow further in figures for the June quarter and beyond as recent reductions in indicator rates begin to affect the figures.

While the average indicator rate on large business variable - rate loans, at 8.0 per cent, is now higher than the corresponding rate for small businesses, the all - up borrowing cost to large business remains lower than for small businesses since customer risk margins for the former are, on average, finer than those for the latter.

He suggests that the tech world is focused on high margin, low volume businesses in which companies fight it out to win over customers and sell high margin software or hardware to a relatively smaller numbers of customers.

On the margin, however, the quantity of new commodity money entering such systems will be small compared to the total supply of the commodity in any given period of time.

The problem is that this is dangerously different from the heart of Jesus and the kingdom he came to declare: small, on the margins, ordinary, obscure, focused on faithfulness and humility that requires dying to ourselves.

While this can separate some churches too much from society, it can also assist the small church in living on the margins of society, where opportunity for mission knocks.

To become a church in mission St. Andrew had to let go of clericalism and convert the members into ministers; let go of the myth of size and develop a vision of what a small church can do; move beyond «coffee fellowship» in its conception of worship and food; and leave behind traditional notions of church in order to focus on the congregation's mission on the margins.

Meanwhile, those on the margins are typically working with less power, smaller platforms, thinner finances, and fewer numbers and in the face of subtle but pervasive stereotypes, prejudices, and disadvantages that make it nearly impossible to advocate for change without causing friction.

The margins on vitamins are small, so their special process is everything to them.

The first signs of bacterial spot on fruits are small, raised, dark - colored spots that are often surrounded by a water - soaked margin.

What concerns me is that for the small manufacturers, many situated in regional towns and producing some iconic Australian brands, this price rise they'll have to pass on is their existing margins.

They work on much smaller margins and the price the consumer pays is in line with the added premiums provided to the farmer (often for quality in addition to organic certification), their own costs involved with organic certification, and the value added by actually roasting high quality beans that taste better.

(20 x 10 inches) Place the wide side in front of you and spread the filling onto the dough, leaving a small 1 cm (0.5 inch) margin on all sides.

Twice he was called offside by small margin, while the other time the ref got it all wrong as replays show he was on.