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ALBERT CHEN The cable companies are concerned about their profit margins.
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CAI YING Service margins declined due to lower sales of upgrades for older legacy systems, higher training an...
ABE REICHENTAL In the pursuit of low production coast and higher profit margins we lost the American dream
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BILL KLESSE The main thing is cost-savings which radiate out in the form of lower prices for high-tech goods, an...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH Introducing minimum retail prices for cigarettes is against community law and mainly benefits manufa...
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ALEXANDER KLOSE But the last thing you want to see happen is for e-retailers to include their profit margins in the ...
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RON POLLACK Hockey can be a real tough business with the slimmest of profit margins, obviously.
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YOSHIHISA MIYAMOTO Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world...
JEREMY GRANTHAM My intention was to reduce the revenue of the company and increase the [profit] margins.
BOB BISHOP Input price pressures are abating and this should reduce uncertainty and pressure on profit margins ...
DAVID HENSLEY Conditions for manufacturers are getting increasingly tough as costs continue their seemingly inexor...
IAN MCCAFFERTY We already assume we have competitive products. But then there's our top line revenue, margin expens...
JONATHAN SCHWARTZ Profit margins are razor thin. I feel for the farmer, but at the same time, we're all being squeezed...
ANTHONY LONGO We think 2001 earnings could be well above the lower end of the Street range, due to higher operatin...
EDWARD WHITE Very strong on the revenue side, less strong ... on the gross margin side. But given the yields they...
JONATHAN HYKAWY The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's beca...
FRANK LEE People are not able to grasp the distinction between revenue and actual profit. They see revenue rep...
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Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution pa...
NATALIE MASSENET We make a profit from time to time, but there is a minimal profit margin in the restaurant business ...
JEFF YATES We found that to be unfortunate, that the commission adopted a (profit level) higher than its own st...
CHARLIE HIGLEY Their revenue will increase from higher-than-average refining margins, increasing profits. The compa...
DIPAK ACHARYA The index is now well above the break-even level of 50, and points to a solid revival in the manufac...
ANDRé ROUX Rosy earnings results spurred the market. But as firms with poor profit figures often unveil their r...
LIU YU The biggest issues and challenges are that fewer people are going to each of their restaurants. Thei...
ANTON BRENNER The continental business was the main star, showing strong year-on-year growth and improving margins...
BRUNO PAULSON We are in desperate need of immediate help. For most of us, the profit margin has become nonexistent...
JOE SMITH We still believe that the recession will persist through the winter, mainly because major job loss l...
BRUCE STEINBERG While housing prices and margins may be climbing to stratospheric levels, it is important to recogni...
STEPHEN KIM For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT It seems that heavy discounting succeeded in clearing unwanted inventory, but only in some areas of ...
STEPHEN WALTERS The continued stability of the composite index at a relatively high 74, along with the improvement i...
DON NORMAN A billion dollars in annual savings translates to a 10-point improvement in our margins. We did bett...
JEFF HENLEY There's still profit taking pressure but I expect the index to trade around the 17,500 level today.
DENNIS LEUNG The passenger cars are not inherently as profitable as big SUVs or big pickups, but they have to ref...
DAVID HEALY Even though they'll be value priced, they'll still carry hefty profit margins. They'll have better f...
JOE PHILLIPPI It appears they have made fundamental, largely sustainable changes in the business. The guidance the...
CINDY SHAW With some notable exceptions, manufacturers continue to experience difficult times, with high energy...
DOUG GODDEN Even though we increased overall revenues 50 percent year-over-year, the lower-than-expected selling...
CRAIG MCHUGH This gain exceeded any of the quarterly declines in gross margin as we moved throughout the downturn...
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Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can...
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margi...
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Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profi...
JAMES SUROWIECKI Profit margins have been badly affected in some industries. Those who have lent companies money to e...
HUW MCKAY There are not many distressed firms in this space overseas, as margins are quite attractive.
HOSHEDAR PRESS Expectations for them are very low. Any improvement they can show on the merchandising side without ...
ARUN DANIEL For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT Sales of gas-inefficient large SUVs are in a state of near-collapse this month, ... It seems likely ...
DAVID HEALY Sales of gas-inefficient large SUVs are in a state of near-collapse this month. It seems likely that...
DAVID HEALY The level of sales activity remained below the record-setting levels that occurred over the last two...
VINCE MALTA The first quarter marked our second straight quarter of organic revenue growth of approximately 10 p...
CHRIS KEARNEY The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Margins and revenue were better than feared. Inventories did go up as we expected but they basically...
CHARLIE GLAVIN At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid b...
CHARLES DUMAS At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid b...
CHARLES DUMAS We're seeing shrinking builder profit margins, and more and more incentives being offered to attract...
ALEXIS MCGEE Oil services firms really can't control revenues. We look for margin improvement.
JAMES WICKLUND The competitive advantages of the Heart Smart System give us the opportunity to capture significantl...
WALTER LAMBERT Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, ...
BRIAN AMBROSE Improving margins are most of the story.
GENE PISASALE While this increase improved total sales revenue for the quarter, margins on these products are lowe...
JOE CRAWFORD For fiscal year 2006 we expect further sales growth and another improvement of our operating profit.
MANFRED WENNEMER Professional services business continues to improve. Though services revenues for the quarter will b...
BETH CHAPPELL![]()
Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount...
JEFF BEZOS been keeping my normal profit margin.
BILL ELLIOTT Online retailers were very successful in attracting early holiday shoppers by offering incentives su...
JEFFREY GRAU The margins story is better than expected. Things are getting better for manufacturers.
JAMES CARRICK The big qualifier on that is that a lot of the price action we've seen in equity markets and earning...
ALEX SCOTT The margins on the mini are far higher than the shuffle, so if the mini steals sales, it's to Apple'...
CHARLIE WOLF There are an awful lot of cost pressures in the system. While they may not be manifest in final good...
BRIAN FABBRI Utilities that create power have gone from selling their power locally to being able to sell their p...
RODNEY BOURNE We teach firms to be able to step back, look at their company, and identify things that increase sal...
GARY KRAVITZ Stocks are going to be under some pressure over the next six to nine months. Revenue growth is very ...
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ESTELLE MORRIS The good development at the truck division is showing up more than ever in the profit.
ANDREAS RENSCHLER No one knows what the market will look like next year and a profit warning from Intel does not bode ...
HARUKI TAKAHASHI We believe that Compaq also did a good job on the profitability front, which should enable operating...
DAN NILES The Shanghai Composite Index may test the key 1300 level again today, but further gains will be limi...
DING CHAOYU [We reached] the high end of our target margin range of 3.5 to 4 percent reinforces the fact that we...
MERLE GILMORE Through 2001 profit gains are expected to continue slowing, but get back to more sustainable levels....
JOE COOPER This has never worked in history -- getting rid of incentives by cutting dealer profit margins, I do...
GEORGE HOFFER We are higher than we were last year. We are higher than we were in June, but we are lower than a fe...
JO ANNE SANFORD In a declining interest rate scenario, Banks will reprice their liabilities (deposits etc.) faster t...
SANJEEWA FERNANDO Our ongoing investments in people, technology and our brand may cause our profit margin for the seco...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP We are hopeful that with economies of scale, we will be able to hold margins at current levels.
AKHIL GUPTA If you look back, analysts were feeling that margins were going to decline. That hasn't happened, an...
HOWARD WHEELDON We continue to obtain additional gross margin leverage primarily through our outsourcing and electro...
KEVIN WILLIAMS The gross margin expansion is really coming through from switch from urinary to recombinant products...
ANDREW FELLOWS![]()
That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education ...
MARTIN O'MALLEY The profit-taking is quite obvious this morning. The current factors and the fundamentals can't supp...
CASTOR PANG The purchase price represents a nearly 50 percent premium above the company's stock price from the b...
MALLORY FACTOR
JOSEPH CAPURSO In fact, most notebook contract makers are now posting much lower profit margins than the 5 to 6 per...
ALBERT CHEN The cable companies are concerned about their profit margins.
CHRIS CARROLL That means profit margins of the foreign brands in China is even higher than what they have in the g...
CAI YING Service margins declined due to lower sales of upgrades for older legacy systems, higher training an...
ABE REICHENTAL In the pursuit of low production coast and higher profit margins we lost the American dream
KENNETH WATERS JR It all boils down to when is this company going to show us better profit margins and cash flow margi...
DAVID GARRITY Gulf Coast gasoline and diesel margins are at record levels for April. The forward curve is showing ...
BILL KLESSE The main thing is cost-savings which radiate out in the form of lower prices for high-tech goods, an...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH Introducing minimum retail prices for cigarettes is against community law and mainly benefits manufa...
LASZLO KOVACS The profit margins in this market are not outstanding in any direction. China is becoming a regular ...
ALEXANDER KLOSE But the last thing you want to see happen is for e-retailers to include their profit margins in the ...
BILL SWINYARD If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go d...
RON POLLACK Hockey can be a real tough business with the slimmest of profit margins, obviously.
JEFF PHILLIPS The size of the outlook revision, unseen in recent years, was a big surprise. Profit margins are dro...
YOSHIHISA MIYAMOTO Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world...
JEREMY GRANTHAM My intention was to reduce the revenue of the company and increase the [profit] margins.
BOB BISHOP Input price pressures are abating and this should reduce uncertainty and pressure on profit margins ...
DAVID HENSLEY Conditions for manufacturers are getting increasingly tough as costs continue their seemingly inexor...
IAN MCCAFFERTY We already assume we have competitive products. But then there's our top line revenue, margin expens...
JONATHAN SCHWARTZ Profit margins are razor thin. I feel for the farmer, but at the same time, we're all being squeezed...
ANTHONY LONGO We think 2001 earnings could be well above the lower end of the Street range, due to higher operatin...
EDWARD WHITE Very strong on the revenue side, less strong ... on the gross margin side. But given the yields they...
JONATHAN HYKAWY The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's beca...
FRANK LEE People are not able to grasp the distinction between revenue and actual profit. They see revenue rep...
WADE DUTY
Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution pa... NATALIE MASSENET We make a profit from time to time, but there is a minimal profit margin in the restaurant business ...
JEFF YATES We found that to be unfortunate, that the commission adopted a (profit level) higher than its own st...
CHARLIE HIGLEY Their revenue will increase from higher-than-average refining margins, increasing profits. The compa...
DIPAK ACHARYA The index is now well above the break-even level of 50, and points to a solid revival in the manufac...
ANDRé ROUX Rosy earnings results spurred the market. But as firms with poor profit figures often unveil their r...
LIU YU The biggest issues and challenges are that fewer people are going to each of their restaurants. Thei...
ANTON BRENNER The continental business was the main star, showing strong year-on-year growth and improving margins...
BRUNO PAULSON We are in desperate need of immediate help. For most of us, the profit margin has become nonexistent...
JOE SMITH We still believe that the recession will persist through the winter, mainly because major job loss l...
BRUCE STEINBERG While housing prices and margins may be climbing to stratospheric levels, it is important to recogni...
STEPHEN KIM For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT It seems that heavy discounting succeeded in clearing unwanted inventory, but only in some areas of ...
STEPHEN WALTERS The continued stability of the composite index at a relatively high 74, along with the improvement i...
DON NORMAN A billion dollars in annual savings translates to a 10-point improvement in our margins. We did bett...
JEFF HENLEY There's still profit taking pressure but I expect the index to trade around the 17,500 level today.
DENNIS LEUNG The passenger cars are not inherently as profitable as big SUVs or big pickups, but they have to ref...
DAVID HEALY Even though they'll be value priced, they'll still carry hefty profit margins. They'll have better f...
JOE PHILLIPPI It appears they have made fundamental, largely sustainable changes in the business. The guidance the...
CINDY SHAW With some notable exceptions, manufacturers continue to experience difficult times, with high energy...
DOUG GODDEN Even though we increased overall revenues 50 percent year-over-year, the lower-than-expected selling...
CRAIG MCHUGH This gain exceeded any of the quarterly declines in gross margin as we moved throughout the downturn...
BILL AYLESWORTH
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can... RUBEN HINOJOSA
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margi... CARL HIAASEN In FY05, statewide average total and operating margins reached their highest levels since FY94, when...
MARC P. VOLAVKA
Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profi... JAMES SUROWIECKI Profit margins have been badly affected in some industries. Those who have lent companies money to e...
HUW MCKAY There are not many distressed firms in this space overseas, as margins are quite attractive.
HOSHEDAR PRESS Expectations for them are very low. Any improvement they can show on the merchandising side without ...
ARUN DANIEL For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT Sales of gas-inefficient large SUVs are in a state of near-collapse this month, ... It seems likely ...
DAVID HEALY Sales of gas-inefficient large SUVs are in a state of near-collapse this month. It seems likely that...
DAVID HEALY The level of sales activity remained below the record-setting levels that occurred over the last two...
VINCE MALTA The first quarter marked our second straight quarter of organic revenue growth of approximately 10 p...
CHRIS KEARNEY The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Margins and revenue were better than feared. Inventories did go up as we expected but they basically...
CHARLIE GLAVIN At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid b...
CHARLES DUMAS At this point, real wages are falling [and] profit margins are rising, so the offset to the stupid b...
CHARLES DUMAS We're seeing shrinking builder profit margins, and more and more incentives being offered to attract...
ALEXIS MCGEE Oil services firms really can't control revenues. We look for margin improvement.
JAMES WICKLUND The competitive advantages of the Heart Smart System give us the opportunity to capture significantl...
WALTER LAMBERT Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, ...
BRIAN AMBROSE Improving margins are most of the story.
GENE PISASALE While this increase improved total sales revenue for the quarter, margins on these products are lowe...
JOE CRAWFORD For fiscal year 2006 we expect further sales growth and another improvement of our operating profit.
MANFRED WENNEMER Professional services business continues to improve. Though services revenues for the quarter will b...
BETH CHAPPELL
Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount... JEFF BEZOS been keeping my normal profit margin.
BILL ELLIOTT Online retailers were very successful in attracting early holiday shoppers by offering incentives su...
JEFFREY GRAU The margins story is better than expected. Things are getting better for manufacturers.
JAMES CARRICK The big qualifier on that is that a lot of the price action we've seen in equity markets and earning...
ALEX SCOTT The margins on the mini are far higher than the shuffle, so if the mini steals sales, it's to Apple'...
CHARLIE WOLF There are an awful lot of cost pressures in the system. While they may not be manifest in final good...
BRIAN FABBRI Utilities that create power have gone from selling their power locally to being able to sell their p...
RODNEY BOURNE We teach firms to be able to step back, look at their company, and identify things that increase sal...
GARY KRAVITZ Stocks are going to be under some pressure over the next six to nine months. Revenue growth is very ...
HARVEY HIRSCHHORN There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were...
ESTELLE MORRIS The good development at the truck division is showing up more than ever in the profit.
ANDREAS RENSCHLER No one knows what the market will look like next year and a profit warning from Intel does not bode ...
HARUKI TAKAHASHI We believe that Compaq also did a good job on the profitability front, which should enable operating...
DAN NILES The Shanghai Composite Index may test the key 1300 level again today, but further gains will be limi...
DING CHAOYU [We reached] the high end of our target margin range of 3.5 to 4 percent reinforces the fact that we...
MERLE GILMORE Through 2001 profit gains are expected to continue slowing, but get back to more sustainable levels....
JOE COOPER This has never worked in history -- getting rid of incentives by cutting dealer profit margins, I do...
GEORGE HOFFER We are higher than we were last year. We are higher than we were in June, but we are lower than a fe...
JO ANNE SANFORD In a declining interest rate scenario, Banks will reprice their liabilities (deposits etc.) faster t...
SANJEEWA FERNANDO Our ongoing investments in people, technology and our brand may cause our profit margin for the seco...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP We are hopeful that with economies of scale, we will be able to hold margins at current levels.
AKHIL GUPTA If you look back, analysts were feeling that margins were going to decline. That hasn't happened, an...
HOWARD WHEELDON We continue to obtain additional gross margin leverage primarily through our outsourcing and electro...
KEVIN WILLIAMS The gross margin expansion is really coming through from switch from urinary to recombinant products...
ANDREW FELLOWS
That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid... WALTER BECKER The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education ...
MARTIN O'MALLEY The profit-taking is quite obvious this morning. The current factors and the fundamentals can't supp...
CASTOR PANG The purchase price represents a nearly 50 percent premium above the company's stock price from the b...
MALLORY FACTOR
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