All five are fabulously profitable as measured by EVA margin (economic profit as a percent of sales).
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It is the true bottom-line measure of how much economic profit, or EVA, a company produces per dollar of sales.
It is then possible to derive a level of economic profit which appears statistically to be the single biggest driver of share-price movement.
The average margin on total sales will fall, but performance actually has improved and shareholders are better off because the company has earned a higher economic profit.
Extremely high readings become increasingly rare over longer periods, however, since it is quite a feat to sustain the growth in economic profit at a high percentage of sales.
As Forbes has observed, companies that consistently score at the top in terms of EVA Momentum (the change in economic profit as a percentage of trailing sales) also tend to produce outsize returns for shareholders.
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But not only will homeowners face falling values, higher interest rates will mean higher mortgage payments just when slowing economic and profit growth may cut into wages.
Looking ahead to 2010, U.S. stocks are expected to rise for a second straight year as the economic and profit outlook brightens, a new Reuters poll finds.
The mining association is a non-profit economic and industry group.
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In my real estate classes, we only discuss things like investment, profit, economic growth and how to increase wealth.
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Yet, knowing the country intimately, as we both do, we believe that in the context of mutual profit and economic growth, secured by lightly armed police, gradual accommodation and reconciliation can emerge.
At times, its critics say, the bank seems to have invested more for profit than for economic transformation.
Privately held companies in most major economic sectors have returned their profit margins to pre-recession levels or better, according to a new analysis of data from Sageworks Inc.
Less profit means less economic capacity to invest risk capital?
When the Real Dow is going up, investors profit from investing in economic growth.
Britain might both welcome, and profit from, straightforward economic migration if politicians made an honest case for it.
They set a goal of 10% profit growth through the economic cycle.
However, with the global economic downturn leading to a fall in economic activity across the world, profit margins fell to around 16% in 2009.
"This is for-profit investment based on economic self-interest, " Winton insists.
As someone who works in the non-profit sector running an economic development organization in Northeast Ohio, I found this concept worth exploring for both business and social sector leaders.
Standard Chartered said it sees a rosier economic outlook in many of its Asian markets this year, after a global economic slowdown put the brakes on profit growth last year.
The latest rally occurred despite some dismal European economic data and a steady downgrade of profit forecasts.
Industrial supplies distributor Fastenal recorded a 36.1% increase in second-quarter profit Tuesday, despite slower economic growth and continued stress on the construction industry.
For me, what is noteworthy about this story is that these governmental entities have the feel of public-private partnerships, effectively mixing the strategic planning of entrepreneurial government agencies with aggressive economic development and a healthy orientation toward profit and efficiency.
Colleges are not immune to the economic factors that affect government and for-profit businesses.
But as Milton Friedman liked to point out, our economic system isn't just based on profit.
In the private sector, the leverage a business is trying to exert is economic, for instance claiming a loss of profit.
Others monitor key economic and financial indicators like market shares operating profit margins, earnings and revenue growth, cash flow, etc. (fundamental analysis).
The authors looked at a range of economic metrics including inflation, unemployment, corporate profit growth, stock market performance, household income growth, economy (GDP) growth, months in recession and others.
Chrysler announced its earnings today, and despite losing money from the time that it exited bankruptcy last year to the end of the year lost money, part of which was a one-time restructuring charge, it achieved an operating profit in the first quarter of 2010, the first quarterly operating profit since the beginning of the economic crisis.
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