In November New York City-based Gordon Brothers Capital, an investment concern, stepped in and bought the business at what was apparently a rock-bottom price.
When low-income household members buy PCs, they tend to purchase systems that are more sophisticated than computers with rock-bottom price tags, according to Dave Tremblay, InfoBeads senior industry analyst.
And this race to the bottom line price may have led many retailers to sacrifice the very features that differentiated themselves in the marketplace to begin with, such as product quality, merchandise selection, and customer service.
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The double bottom frequently precedes big price moves.
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We may well see spectacular, possibly 10-30% share price bounces before we bottom.
Since the market hit bottom in late December, the price of a ton of hot-rolled steel has risen by more than 50% (see chart).
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By taking a narrow view of costs, with a principal focus on labor costs, it could appear on a spreadsheet that shipping factories and jobs to China would help the bottom line and pop the share price, and along with that, eye-popping management bonuses.
This creates a bottom for the market by putting a price on the most problematic paper.
The biggest price tag of all is the bottom line on total cost of care.
Sidney Frank made billions by selling Grey Goose vodka, nearly indistinguishable from bottom-shelf brands, at a rich price.
People base their choice of airline not on the desirability of the product but on price particularly on the bottom end.
He explained this with a chart (see the bottom of story) in which the gold price is overlaid against the U.S. monetary base, showing both have risen dramatically over the last several years.
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The bottom line: Greenfield seems to think the current price talk range looks, well, bubbly.
Penney, its brand, and its bottom line, will be the ones paying the price.
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Rather than focusing entirely on the price, sellers should look at the bottom line: Their net profit.
The bottom line, Savant said, is that the price of gold in India slipped from 27, 611.71 rupees for 10 grams as of April 8 to 23, 869.73 on Monday.
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The leverage aspect comes from the fact that as the price of gold increases since their cost of production is steady the increase in the price of gold will fall to their bottom line.
Finally, U.S. housing is recovering with a house price-to-income ratio at the bottom of its 40-year range.
The bottom line: payday lenders deliver convenience at a high price, even when borrowers might qualify for cheaper loans elsewhere.
If the effect is to, say, halve the rate of further home-price decline, then stocks might be near the bottom right now and the economy will probably recover in 2009.
If there is a good rally in copper on Thursday, that would hint that price action Tuesday put in a near-term market bottom.
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Gold bears have the overall near-term technical advantage and the bulls still have heavy lifting to do to suggest a market bottom is in place, let alone that a near-term price uptrend can be sustained.
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Price wars in the UK and elsewhere are hurting the bottom line as well, and like other operators Vodafone has seen its average revenues per subscriber fall by more than half during the past four years.
Determining the actual marginal cost of production is somewhat tricky since the commodity is priced globally in dollars, but the bottom lines for South African mining companies are ultimately determined by the price they receive in South African rand, with their expenses also paid in rand.
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Recent upside price action does begin to suggest a near-term market bottom is in place.
The bottom line here: Microsoft has put out half a product for the full price.
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Bottom line, Wal-Mart represents a rare investment treat at the current price.
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However, price action recently suggests prices have put in a near-term bottom.
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