In fact, most notebook contract makers are now posting much lower profit margins than the 5 to 6 percent reported. A five-percent margin is already a good deal to most.
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Related The profit outlook is especially good for makers of electronic components. Sales will rise by at lea... ATSUSHI OSA The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of t... L. NEIL SMITH The profit margin index is well above the 50%-level, indicating that, for most firms, profit margins... DONALD A. NORMAN The fact is an ARM that you took a year ago could easily adjust to 6.5 percent or 7 percent percent ... GREG MCBRIDE A billion dollars in annual savings translates to a 10-point improvement in our margins. We did bett... JEFF HENLEY You don't need much of a reason these days to go down 5 or 6 percent. And we have some good reasons ... PHIL ROTH Now we're in slash and burn time. We think that analysts are going to take down estimates to 5 or 6 ... JOE COOPER Because most things are 50 percent or 75 percent off, you can really get a deal. I think this is the... 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I think most people were looking at the 7- to ... DAN NILES Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS Business is tough, now people are trying to travel but at much lower cost. (In total) business trave... DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS Here we are, before there's even been a shovel put into the earth, and we're already effectively 31 ... JOE NATION the most disappointing. Nobody expected 'Invasion' to hold the 'Lost' lead-in. But it's losing a goo... MARC BERMAN The latest PMI data point to a slight moderation in the pace of global manufacturing output, to a st... DAVID HENSLEY The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable state... CONAN O'BRIEN Just because you pay 5 percent less than somebody else doesn't mean it is a good price. THOMAS SKINNER Most of the production growth now is from gas, and gas is at a much lower price than oil. ADRIAN JACKSON Turkey is seeing a fatality rate of 20 percent which is lower than the fatality rate observed in Asi... CRISTIANA SALVI We achieved a solid gross margin of 54 percent for the full year and reduced our R&D expenditure to ... SVEN LOFQUIST The 'full employment' unemployment rate is about 5 percent, ... It's still the case that the unemplo... GUS FAUCHER The Fed is going to finish at about 5 percent, or certainly pause at 5 percent. RICHARD GRACE I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 t... GABE NEWELL Our self-pay as a percentage of our overall business isn't that high, from a relative standpoint, ..... MIKE GREEN In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000... DAVE REICHERT Neither side reached 50 percent (in the lower house) and the margin is under 25,000 votes. Such a ti... PAOLO BONAIUTI Some people are looking at breakevens that are lower than feeder contract prices. The summer contrac... JASON SAWYER We look for actual GAF (General Merchandise, Apparel, and Furniture/Furnishings) spending - which ac... IRWIN COHEN We look for actual GAF (General Merchandise, Apparel, and Furniture/Furnishings) spending - which ac... IRWIN COHEN In a series of three studies, the offenders who claimed they were abused as a child were 67 percent,... ANNA C. SALTER We make a profit from time to time, but there is a minimal profit margin in the restaurant business ... JEFF YATES Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a... AMY CUTTS Even with rising mortgage rates over the last four weeks, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates remain a... AMY CREWS CUTTS We are in desperate need of immediate help. For most of us, the profit margin has become nonexistent... JOE SMITH Fifteen percent is a humanitarian emergency and we are already at 25 percent. NICK HAAN There is less enthusiasm to borrow and we think that is going to translate into lower consumer spend... DENNIS JACOBE We surveyed 125 retailers late last week, and 21 percent had at least one Xbox 360 Core ($299 versio... PJ MCNEALY This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis... ALBERT CAMUS He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�... SUZAN TISDALE A majority of people in these surveys also said that America gives too much aid--but when they were ... PETER SINGER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS If we see (after-Thanksgiving) sales growth over 5 or 6 percent, that's a very positive indication o... DARRELL RIGBY Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD Buyers are nervous that they're buying at the top of the market. Most offers now are coming in under... AARON ZAPATA The likelihood of stumbling is much higher if [like Nokia] you have 80 or 85 percent of earnings com... PER LINDBERG This is effectively a complete reversal in market share position from two or three years ago, ... We... ED ZANDER The president should be worried. With 55 percent, if there's is a margin of error of 4 percent, he c... HORACIO SERPA Even though we increased overall revenues 50 percent year-over-year, the lower-than-expected selling... CRAIG MCHUGH It's the largest, most prestigious poker tournament in the world. And he finished in the top 6 or 7 ... JEFF FADNESS Twenty percent of the world's energy gets wasted by inefficient light creation. If the world moved t... HANS ROHRER It's not that we've given up on the 5 percent margin [goal] but it's certainly not likely to be atta... TONI SIMONETTI We can't afford it. It's going to cost much more than this 5 percent increment in the NASA budget th... ALEX ROLAND He'll play this week. He's not 100 percent, but 90 percent of Brian is better than most people at 10... BRAD CLANTON Most retailers only advertise 5 percent of their products. We can let them advertise all of them. TIM ARMSTRONG Looking forward into the fourth quarter, at this point we are not highly optimistic that there will ... KAREN HAUS Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. DOUG PLANK About 5 cents of the upside was driven by better-than-expected margins. The other 11 cents was a low... JAMES JANESKY Businesses are realizing that an effective loss-prevention program can become a competitive advantag... JOE DAVIS The recent moves to eliminate the worst-performing 10 percent of brokers and rein in the training pr... GUY MOSZKOWSKI I think it's just much-needed profit-taking after a huge run-up and, fundamentally, nothing has real... ROBERT LAUZON College students have a lot of things they are concerned about, but the fact that 39 percent is most... KRISTER ANDERSON The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER At the margin they reinforced our growing sense that Fed tightening might stop before the federal fu... ED MCKELVEY Harden at 40 percent is like most pitchers at 100 percent. When he comes back, it will be a huge boo... DAN JOHNSON Thirty-five percent of the individuals that we arrest for trafficking in child pornography are in fa... RAYMOND SMITH With today's thin margins, aerial chemical applicators are cost prohibitive for me at $5 to 6 an acr... JOE NEWTON Our gross margin forecast is 38.3 percent. However, we think this could be lighter as the company ha... WILLIAM CRAWFORD Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How abou... ALISON SWEENEY The last few months of 2005 marked the first time since mid-2004 that the fixed-rate mortgage was ab... VINCE MALTA To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two perce... JUDITH CRIST It's a much bigger deal for the computer makers than it is for anybody else. DAVID SMITH We are expecting a 6 percent increase in homes sold in 2005 over the number sold in 2004. And that m... GREG DYER Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the ot... THOMAS A. EDISON Contract manufacturers have seen their inventory grow 104 percent year-to-date, versus revenue growt... DANIEL NILES While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as th... JANE LIU It wouldn't be a calamity unless we lost another 5 (percent) to 10 percent of capacity, GENE GILLESPIE It appears that operating earnings per share rose 6 percent to 7 percent in the second quarter, foll... JOSEPH COHEN My opinion is we're seeing market liquidations of many of the former high-flying Internet stocks, ..... CHARLES BIDERMAN Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of the... MATTHEW DESMOND I like this way a lot better. Used to, it would be three or four years before they reappraise. Man, ... BILL TUCKER Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidenc... MICHAEL SPECTER We're going to be able to deliver a lot of services that McAfee currently delivers themselves now. S... JIM HINDY Professional services business continues to improve. Though services revenues for the quarter will b... BETH CHAPPELL That figure...is still higher than the total percentage he gained when he was elected last year, whi... DENNY JANUAR ALI
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