The least we can do, as professionals, is to normalise between economic boom and economic bust, between low profit margins such as those in 1982 when they were 1/2 normal and
very high profit margins such as those of today.
Not exact matches
Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as
very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering
profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially
higher credit losses, fewer available
high - quality,
high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.
Other industries might have
very small costs of goods sold that produce
high gross
margins, but large operating expenses can eat up most or all of that gross
profit and thereby lead to less attractive net income figures.
The aviation sector is
high - capital intensive and dollar - denominated but with
very low
profit margin.
I feel that the
profit margins on a ten inch tablet is not
very high for Amazon and they are having more success with their seven and eight inch models.
Note Amazon is supposedly losing $ 50 per Kindle Fire, and historically Amazon, despite
high revenues, has
very low and minuscule
profit margins.
It proves to be
very advantageous for the banks as they are able to increase the
profit margins through
higher interest rates and the borrower will have some revolving credit that they can use.
We have to be careful, however, because each strategy has its own norm for relative valuation; for example, by its
very definition, value always trades cheap relative to growth, whereas a portfolio of companies with
high profit margins will always trade expensive relative to a portfolio of low -
margin companies.
You are going to find their trading platforms extremely user friendly, they all offer new customers some
very generous sign up bonuses, and being our top rated sites they offer
high profit margins, low and cost effective Banking options and around the clock customer support.
While I did that, William Hester, who I have met at a BCFAS meeting, commented on the
very item I was looking for — if the
profit forecasts occur,
profit margins will be unusually
high.
«We make (our product) with electricity, we bake it with gas, we refrigerate and freeze it with electricity and we distribute it with gas and oil,» said McArthur, who said he worries that
high prices could cost his company up to $ 15,000 a year in an industry with a
very tight
margin for
profit.
In some cases the premiums are lower but not as low as they aught to be... as a result their
profit margins are
very high.
Electronics stores like these services because they're
very high -
margin and almost pure
profit.