| Risk assets are being grown at a cracking pace, while the profit margin earned on them is shrinking. |
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| My banker asked me what my profit margin was and I was embarrassed to tell him that I have no idea. |
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| That's because falling unit costs increase the profit margin on each good or service sold. |
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| All we know is that they approached the matter on the basis of achieving their desired profit margin, which included the full impost of the tax. |
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| Cargoes were of unequal value, and the profit margin surely much higher for some than for others. |
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| At this stage, you should primarily concentrate on stock, which offers a high profit margin. |
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| Go to the income statement again to find the gross profit margin, which is revenue less cost of revenue. |
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| An example of this is where there is a drop in the gross profit margin which could be due to increased competition. |
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| Blindly and prematurely renting links does nothing but squeeze the profit margin out of your business. |
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| Its gross profit margin also improved, rising to 52.1 per cent from 50 per cent. |
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| The gross profit margin slipped to 42.3 per cent from 43 per cent a year earlier. |
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| The digit wheel in Gary's mind is spinning, adding more and more zeroes to his mental profit margin. |
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| Instead they hope you will sit passively as they progressively whittle your deposit rate down and their profit margin up. |
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| Subtract an acceptable profit margin, and you're left with the target cost of the product. |
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| Dealers make a profit margin of about 10 per cent when organising the finance for a new car. |
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| It has since clawed back market share, but only at the cost of sacrificing a good chunk of profit margin. |
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| Sales of gifts and entertainment services generally have a higher profit margin than sales of airline tickets. |
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| The only way, therefore, a farmer can maintain their profit margin is by cutting costs. |
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| Add to this a low profit margin and you could easily assume that the manufacturer is selling at a loss just to have the business. |
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| You have to have access to some product that you can sell at a healthy profit margin. |
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| Film exhibition is a hard business with a nasty profit margin, and the studios hold most of the cards. |
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| Managers need current data to be able to see things like the profit margin on sales and how fast items are selling, he says. |
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| At the end of the day he compares the tally of customers with the takings to ensure his profit margin. |
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| The recycling business has a wider profit margin than the leasing side, Lane said. |
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| Turn a potato into a potato crisp and you have gone from something with a tiny profit margin to a problematic foodstuff that has an enormous one. |
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| Governments can borrow money more cheaply and don't have to build in a profit margin. |
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| The costs may include a return on capital or profit margin reflecting the degree of risk transferred. |
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| It all adds grist to the mill of those who claim that unless trained police officers are in charge, corners will always be cut by firms with one eye on the profit margin. |
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| In doing so it will wipe out its profit margin on that business. |
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| What's more, you can set your own profit margin on each sale and at the end of the month, they just send you a cheque for the amount you've earned. |
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| These surplus, unexperienced books represent a sizable part of the literary profit margin, such as it is. |
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| Gross profit margin is the ratio of your gross profit to your total revenue. |
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| Although raw material prices continued to rise, the gross profit margin was maintained at previous year's level. |
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| Some business owners will use an anticipated gross profit margin to help them price their products. |
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| While some ratios uncover trends by looking at the past, the gross profit margin is a tool you can use to chart your company's future. |
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| Inventory markdowns accounted for a high percentage of the loss for the quarter and gross profit margin were also reduced. |
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| It's an easy way to bump up your profit margin and provide customers with more choice. |
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| The user claimed that its profit margin was already very low and close to break even. |
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| The Group's strategy consists of prioritising top-of-the-line products with a high profit margin. |
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| That of course will lead to concerns about the profit margin, with a lot of money for fuel and less money for profit. |
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| This is due to the price and profit margin differential between engines starters and engines. |
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| These developments resulted in lower expenses and an improved new business profit margin. |
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| According to Silzer, there is a decent profit margin raising bison right now. |
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| This is the highest profit margin posted since the beginning of the decade. |
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| The high costs of imported equipment increased the investment costs and narrowed the profit margin of wind farms. |
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| Then, in calculating the net loss to Delisle during this period, he applied Delisle's normal profit margin to the income lost during the year. |
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| Selling local is no guarantee of profitability, but there are ways to protect your profit margin. |
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| When the cost of natural gas is high, the profit margin for this period is not sufficient to offset the ceiling on electricity prices. |
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| There is no profit margin to indicate whether the organization is becoming more or less efficient. |
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| This strategy will allow the company to significantly reduce its manufacturing time while helping to raise its profit margin. |
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| In particular, this structure allows it to achieve a better profit margin in international markets. |
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| This will help farmers because they will have larger profit margin to protect them from small price fluctuations. |
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| Framers must do the math to decide upon incentives that strike a good balance between being meaningful to customers and keeping the shop's profit margin intact. |
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| So if you reduce the profit margin by restricting advertising or imposing cost control, you will simply force companies to reallocate their resources. |
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| Millions of the less well-off are in hock to money lenders because banks won't handle their affairs since the profit margin involved isn't big enough. |
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| The gross profit margin variable was not transformed into natural logarithm as some observations were negative. |
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| Gross profit margin is not a complete picture. |
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| But you might miss out on a few basis points of profit margin if you do. |
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| Steel production remained at the core of the company, but under increasing profit margin pressure. |
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| These commodities provided a lower profit margin and therefore required a larger sales volume to generate the same amount of revenue. |
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| The point was made by Mueller that the profit margin on adulterated olive oil was three times that on the illegal narcotic drug cocaine. |
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| For unincorporated businesses, operating profit margin includes unpaid remuneration to partners and proprietors, which is not recorded as salaries, wages and benefits. |
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| But the profit margin for producing these gewgaws is very small. |
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| And even taking into account the cost of production, the profit margin of dehydrated food is high: dehydrating a kilo of onions costs 50 rupees, but the market value is 100 rupees. |
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| That's a pathetic 1.4-percent profit margin. |
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| It should be noted that the lower the price per pound of cheese, the more difficult it is to cover expenses other than milk, and the lower the profit margin, if any, per pound of cheese. |
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| Targeted therapeutics offer superior pharmacological benefits due to which profit margin of tyrosine kinase inhibitors are expected to increase in coming years. |
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| One of the principal reasons for low profitability in CPA firms is that owners pay too much attention to profit margin and not enough to profitability. |
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