All these businesses are growing at least 5% a year, with gross margins above 30%.
So Ford has decided it needs to increase profit margins on its passenger car business.
High-tech and futuristic smart cars can bring high demand, premium prices and high margins.
At the same time, significant cost overruns on U.K.-based projects pressured profit margins further.
Those margins helped overcome Democratic dominance of urban areas and tighter contests in suburbs.
Pretty slim margins for dishing out meat loaf and Jell-O (or rather, sesame-crusted tuna).
If labor costs increase faster than productivity and sales, then profit margins will be squeezed.
Research firm IDC says net margins on business PCs are at 5%, down from 20% in 1995.
While gross margins on its DSL modems are 33% and rising, competitors will someday take those margins away.
More importantly, Burns and TPG helped clean up Chobani's operational mess, returning its profit margins to the black.
Once on the road, with the narrow margins of profit versus costs in travel, I never saved money.
While net income was above consensus estimates, both sales and margins were a cause for concern.
By contrast, Dell managed just 18.28% percent gross margins and Hewlett-Packard 24.67% in their latest quarters.
Its big rivals aren't in this line, which yields better margins and brings in other business.
In other words, Wal-Mart has been successfully milking a mature business for higher margins.
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It has a predictable ongoing revenue stream that produces gross margins that yield big net profits.
Mr. Pope restructured Smithfield to concentrate more on packaged-meats products that carry higher profit margins.
Fund managers go after big cap stocks like IBM that can increase their margins.
Median margins for the Forbes 500s slipped to 6.3%last year, from 6.4% the year before.
They sported high valuations on top of very high earnings, with profit margins at multi-decade highs.
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The problem today is that most of the big blue chips report record profit margins.
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Operating margins in the Eastern Hemisphere showed good improvement in the fourth quarter, he notes.
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Actually, operating profit margins rise almost everywhere in the face of flat to declining revenues.
For years, Apple under Steve Jobs, ridiculously lowballed quarterly forecasts on revenues, gross margins and profitability.
Even so, though mining profits are down because of lower commodity prices, profit margins remain high.
We will look for any impact on its operating margins because of these cuts.
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Operating margins as a percent of consolidated sales improved to 3.2% from 2.7% a year ago.
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Combine that with high gross margins and channel fill and the bar got set very high.
The shift within mobility sales toward lower margin smartphones was the key driver behind declining margins.
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