We continue to focus on year-to-date (YTD) breakeven levels as potential areas of support.
The breakeven volume of MRJ production and sales is said to be 350-400 aircraft.
If it can attract 30, 000 subscribers, it will be at or near the breakeven point.
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Focus on getting companies like these to breakeven, even at a modest level of revenue.
One way to gauge support for the price of oil is to calculate the breakeven price.
That is why it does not affect us if our breakeven target is 12 or 18 months behind schedule.
Its current breakeven point is now reduced significantly to 11 million with a market share of about 19%.
Even in this scenario, Apple just meets the breakeven required rate of return, delivering a 10% compound annual return.
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Online holiday and leisure retailer Lastminute.com has reported widening losses but stuck by forecasts of hitting breakeven in the spring.
Despite selling an awful lot of more cars, the company could barely manage to breakeven in Asia-Pacific, which includes the Chinese region.
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For example, if a portfolio loses 40% of its value, an almost insurmountable subsequent return of 66.7% is needed to simply breakeven.
These breakeven points are arrived at by adding and subtracting the price paid for the long straddle to and from the strike price.
That breakeven number could quickly ratchet up, as oil companies quash plans to invest in Algeria in favor of friendlier territories like Texas.
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You could also lower breakeven by selling an out-of-the-money call, such as the November 130 strike, but you would also limit your potential profit.
Even with my policy's poor recent performance I am still only down to breakeven point and nowhere near the 30% shortfall my letters suggest.
Each of the Detroit Three, for example, he said, has lowered its breakeven point to a 9.5- to 10-million-unit year in overall industry sales.
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Even with dealers taking unneeded cars, the manufacturers are operating at around 65% of capacity when 80% is thought to be the breakeven point.
One problem facing solar, wind and most other alternative energy sources is that the payoff or breakeven period for investments is long term.
Echelon Corp (ELON): Visibility stays constrained and compounded by tough comps (wind-down of large projects), as sustained breakeven goals remain difficult in this macro environment.
Nimble appears to be outrunning its competitors and if it can keep adding customers while staying close to breakeven, its investors will become even richer.
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Perhaps breakeven levels have been reduced in this new world order.
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As the company burns through cash in order to fight on all fronts, it will become increasingly difficult to operate at or near breakeven levels.
This Friday is the breakeven point for many businesses known in the trade as Black Friday, during which many retailers hold massive sales.
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It tells you how far the company is from cashflow breakeven, and hence gives an indication of how much money will be needed to get there.
Losses for long calls are limited to the premium paid (if PETM is trading south of the purchased strike), while gains are unlimited above the breakeven point.
Our restructuring efforts are designed to simplify our product development cycles, reduce our breakeven point and enable us to fund differentiated product roadmaps and strategic breakaway opportunities.
Stock prices readjust on the ex-dividend date to reflect the pending payment, and there is no guarantee the shares won't slip below the trader's breakeven point, resulting in losses.
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Moreover, we find it quite interesting that the popular 200-day moving averages for each of the major domestic benchmarks that we follow are sitting around these respective YTD breakeven points.
While the figure was below the 50 'breakeven' level, and meant that US manufacturing had suffered its 17th successive month of contraction, it was higher than Wall Street had expected.
We estimate we need 500 to get to breakeven.
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