Gross profit margin for the quarter stood at 22.6%, down from 23.1% recorded last year.
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That leapfrogging should put Intel's gross profit margin, already better than AMD's, still further ahead.
The gross profit margin shows you just how much price cuts retailers absorbed to attract customers.
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Due to lower costs, the gross profit margin rose 929 basis points to 25.18%.
Their gross profit margin on new cars has been falling for 40 years, to 6% last year.
Apart from comparable store sales, the other closely watched metric in the industry is gross profit margin.
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Consequently, the gross profit margin was hurt and it may continue to narrow in the fourth quarter.
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Thanks to a more favorable sales mix, the gross profit margin widened 77 basis points to 24.8%.
The gross profit margin increased 67 basis points to 34.36% thanks to fewer markdowns and less promotional activity.
What it does have, he says, is a gross profit margin of 40%.
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North American Iron Ore Gross Profit Margin: The North American iron ore business saw margins of 31.6% in 2010.
Louis, Missouri-based company expanded its gross profit margin 300 basis points to 48%.
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Asia Pacific Iron Ore Gross Profit Margin: The Asia Pacific iron ore business had a healthy 50.4% margin in 2010.
Taiwan Semiconductor also lowered its expectations for gross profit margin and operating profit margin by four percentage points each.
Some firms have much higher associate to partner leverage than others, which lowers the gross profit margin if you count associate salaries.
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During that period the gross profit margin rose from 29% to 40%.
That gave Great Wall, at least temporarily, the global auto industry's fattest gross profit margin at 28 percent, according to Bernstein Research analyst Max Warburton.
Depending on the results on the field, the gross profit margin on fixed-odds World Cup betting is 15% to 23%, according to a Ladbrokes spokesman.
The member forecasts suggest that Juniper Market Share in Edge Routers will trend higher than the Trefis forecast, while Routers Gross Profit Margin will trend lower.
The drink is sweeter than Red Bull, to appeal to more consumers--and in more ways than one: Piranha's gross profit margin is 42%, compared with Red Bull's 33%.
The gross profit margin (excluding occupancy expense as a cost of the merchandise) edged up a percentage point, to 56%, in 1998, but sales growth slowed, to 6% from 14%.
Gross profit increased 69%, attributable to higher revenue and gross profit margin expansion of 350 basis points over the prior-year quarter to 51.8%, driven by printers and materials gross profit margin improvement.
While we expect Pepsi Gross Profit Margin to remain flat over the Trefis forecast period, Trefis members expect the driver to trend below the Trefis forecast till 2012, and then trend above until 2016.
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It now expects fourth-quarter gross profit margin to be in the range of 30.0% to 32.0%, and operating profit margin in the range of 17.0% to 19.0%, when it releases fourth-quarter results on Jan. 22.
So when the yield curve is steeper, banks have a fatter future gross operating profit margin.
The spread between short and long rates is effectively the gross operating profit margin banks can make on their next loans.
It also far exceeds its competitors in a number of different ways: market capitalization, enterprise value, revenue, gross margin, and profit margin.
These non-GAAP measures include non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP income tax expense, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income, or earnings, per share, and free cash flow.
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