The report's main author, Richard Jolly, says: "The world is rushing headlong into greater integration, driven mostly by a philosophy of market profitability and economic efficiency".
Stocks outperform the market when profitability improves more than investors expect.
The new iPhone allowed third parties to create and sell mobile applications through the App Store, an important development that led to increased market share and profitability.
With peak season demand in the fourth quarter expected to increase 30 percent on-quarter, Samsung aims to outperform the market and enhance profitability through marketing and sales expansion of premium products such as LED TVs and Smart TVs supported by customized TV applications.
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We are confident that these initiatives will strengthen our business and enable us to improve profitability as the market recovers.
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Shipping lines are still placing orders partly because some of them still think in terms of market share, rather than profitability.
Despite expectations of higher corporate profitability, the market is shining a spotlight on profit margins which shortly could top out at their pre-recession level.
Victor Menezes, a 29-year Citi veteran and its emerging-markets boss, figures that the bank will boost market share and increase its profitability through the current crisis.
While its rivals were dealing with government bailouts, Ford grabbed more than two points of market share, returned to profitability and began repairing its heavily leveraged balance sheet.
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While the Las Vegas market is saturated resulting in lower profitability, Singapore continues to battle slow economic growth and tighter administrative restrictions on gambling.
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Thirdly the collapses led not merely to better financial regulation but, more importantly, to a corporate focus on profitability over size and market share.
Despite sluggish market conditions, Samsung maintained solid profitability through its differentiated memory solutions and cost leadership based on its migration to 30-nanometer-class DRAM production.
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In the past decade, HP has consistently taken measures to ensure profitability in the PC market through increased operational efficiency, expanded build-to-customer-order capabilities and supply chain improvements.
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But now the impact on exports of higher oil prices, coupled with a sharp rise in the yen since last summer a consequence largely of financial-market volatility throws that profitability into question.
So cutting back on fleet sales is good for profitability, but bad for market share.
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Pricing and profitability are often determined by market power and payer mix.
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Worldwide, companies like Hunter Douglas (manufacturer of custom-made window fashions in North America) and Vitamix (world leader in high-performance blending equipment) are finding out that the flexibility of our solutions can help improve productivity and profitability in a market where both supply and demand is changing.
Not good if you believe that the latest legs of the bull market have rested on a widening of corporate profitability.
We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long-term market leadership considerations rather than short-term profitability considerations or short-term Wall Street reactions.
While the Las Vegas market has become saturated and led to low profitability, Singapore continues to battle slow economic growth and tighter administrative restrictions on gambling.
Although weak seasonality led to a quarter-on-quarter dip in revenue, strong sales of premium TVs in developed markets and LED TVs in emerging markets saw shipments outstrip market growth and drive a sharp increase in profitability.
Fierce competition in the travel market and doubts over Lastminute.com's profitability further hurt the firm's share price.
The Semiconductor Business sustained profitability in the quarter, amid weak market demand, thanks to a mix of high-margin products such as servers and Solid State Drives (SSDs) coupled with differentiated 20-nanometer class NAND flash chips.
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With limited visibility into future profitability, Amazon is currently overvalued in the market.
The question now is how well Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's profitability has stood up to the bond-market crunch.
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That price translates into a price to economic book value ratio of 0.5, which means the market is predicting a permanent 50% decline in its profitability, an awfully pessimistic assumption.
Sometimes paradoxically in the Venture Capital start-up world, it is easier to raise money than to execute a strategy, specifically in achieving victory as the top firm globally in terms of subscribers and market share (in hyper-growth, revenues and profitability stand behind world domination).
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GKN's market dominance in its chosen niches is the key to increased profitability, says Beresford.
The authors compare the profitability of small banks operating in only one local market in two periods, 1982-90 and 1991-2000.
In other words, the market price already prices in a pretty huge turnaround in the profitability and growth of this business.
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