Sentences with phrase «weak profit margins»

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The company attributed the performance to its international business, where it saw higher expenses, lower profit margins and weaker gains from sales of assets.

Those have included fewer sales events and the departure from many department stores like weak Macy's locations, even if that hurts sales in the short term; the aim is to protect profit margins and stave off the cheapening of the brand.

HOUSTON, April 27 (Reuters)- Weak refining margins hurt Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp's first - quarter profit, cutting into overall gains from rising oil prices.

The Business Outlook Survey says executives are feeling better because of stronger demand for exports and a weaker currency that is boosting their profit margins.

The deterioration in operational performance, profit margins and financial strength of weaker listed companies could weigh down their stock prices when interest rates are moving higher.

Profit margins and earnings growth have remained at record levels, despite weak global growth and a number of other macro threats.

The top three US equity benchmarks closed mixed with the Dow slipping as IBM plunged 7.5 per cent after it reported narrower profit margins in the first quarter and no revenue growth unless one factors in help from a weak US dollar.

Over the past year, I've emphasized that the main risk in the market was the likelihood of weak capital spending and collapsing profit margins.

From my perspective, that look would tell them several things: 1) the U.S. economy is in recession, 2) the combination of weak producer prices and rising wage and benefits costs means that profit margins continue to be under pressure.

Our own concern about elevated profit margins is not that earnings will be weak over the completion of the current cycle (though that increasingly appears likely), but that investors are using historically extreme profit margins and record earnings as if they are completely representative of decades and decades of future earnings, and are using those earnings figures as a sufficient statistic for valuation.

Though Wall Street's estimates of forward operating margins imply soaring earnings in the next couple of years, it's useful to understand that in available data since the early 1980's, the higher Wall Street's expectations of profit margins have been, the weaker the subsequent performance of the S&P 500 has been over the following 3 - year horizon.

Credit Suisse says profit margins are likely to stay high due to two primary factors — an accommodative Fed and a weak labor class:

In the short - term, Samsung is planning to increase shipments of its mid-range smartphones in Q1 2017 but is expecting to see slightly weaker phone profits as its flagship devices with largest profit margins likely won't launch until the second quarter of the year.