Gasoline prices often rise and fall with crude oil prices, and so complex refineries that can process lower priced crude feedstock typically see their margins improve during rising oil prices.
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Stewart is dealing with this by investing heavily in cremation outfits-which typically earn higher margins than the 30% Stewart makes on traditional funerals-and inexpensive "alternative service" funeral homes that paradoxically tend to appeal to higher-income customers.
They are no longer content to do the grunt work for Western firms, for two simple reasons: non-branded companies typically earn gross margins of 3-8% and are constantly at risk of being undercut by cheaper rivals.
Typically, profit margins also rise during the Christmas-fueled fourth quarter.
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But in fact, these businesses typically operate on thin margins.
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They account for just 4% of total health care spending and typically have had lower gross margins than drugs--50% versus 80%.
There's no reason Cummins can't do at least as well as Caterpillar's engine group, which typically posted 9% operating margins before its acquisition of Britain's Perkins Engine.
Despite charging what may seem high interest rates, MFIs typically have wafer-thin margins because of the high costs of making and collecting payments on millions of tiny loans.
Instead of the estimated 20% margins they make on Casablanca, they can typically get 45% on even the cheapest Craftmade fans.
Others observe that the business has historically enjoyed profit margins of some 20%, double those typically earned by Big Oil.
Professional graphics are high profit margin products that typically having 2x -3x the profit margins of desktop graphics cards.
Typically about the business model, profit margins, distribution etc.
Operating margins here approach 20%, four times what Rouge typically gets for raw steel.
Typically, investors sell stocks when companies report lower margins because they worry it is a sign of increased operating costs or less-effective management execution.
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The competition means that margins are thin and the net profit of jewelry chains, including Alukkas, is typically a tiny sliver of the total sales.
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The brothers' movies are typically set in small Belgian towns and their characters are on the economic margins, but the films focus on the ambition of their principals.
But Greenwald knows he cant nourish those cherished profit margins unless he attracts more full-fare travelers like last- minute businessmen, who typically pay 15 cents more per passenger mile than vacationers.
The second half of the year should see an improvement in the margins in the absence of one time investments associated with the product launches and a higher price that is typically associated with a model upgrade.
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