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	Profit margin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is calculated using a formula and written as a percentage or a number.
		The profit margin would be (4 / 10) or 40%.
		Profit margin is an indicator of a company's pricing policies and its ability to control costs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Profit_margin (198 words)

	Margin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In finance, a margin is the cash or collateral that a holder of a position in securities or in exchange traded derivatives is required to post to cover potential adverse movements in the value of the position.
		In Medicine, the tissue margins are the edges of an excision (or resection) surgical specimen.
		The margins are examined by a pathologist to evaluate the likelihood that the disease (for example, a cancer) has been completely removed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margin (466 words)

	Profit Margin
		Profit margin is very useful when comparing companies in similar industries.
		A higher profit margin indicates a more profitable company that has better control over its costs compared to the competitors in the industry.
		Profit margin is displayed as a percentage; a 20% profit margin, for example, which means that the company has a net income of $0.20 for each dollar of sales.
	baystreet.investopedia.com /terms/p/profitmargin.asp (186 words)

	Fool.com: Leverage [Return on Equity]
		The profit margin is one of the easiest ways to assess whether or not this group is meeting the test of the profitability side of the equation.
		Profit margins are also an expression of the amount of competition inherent in the business.
		High profit margins tend to indicate that a company either has a high proprietary good or service, possibly "branded" and therefore able to carry a price premium, or the company is in a business where it has a monopoly or is part of an oligopoly over a particular type of goods or services.
	www.fool.com /School/ReturnOnEquity/ReturnOnEquity02.htm (876 words)

	profit margin - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about profit margin
		Profit margin can be expressed as a gross or net figure.
		Gross margin is sales revenue less the cost of goods sold.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /profit+margin (96 words)

	Financial terms 101 - Confusing markup with margin causes profit slippage - Landscape Management
		Margin is calculated differently and defines how much profit a business owner will earn after materials, labor and overhead are deducted.
		If this is done on all of the contractor's jobs throughout the year he will reduce his 10% margin to 9% at the end of year, all because of confusing markup with margin.
		In addition to confusion in markup and margin, there are other factors that may have brought that 10% margin down to 3% at the end of the year from the initial example.
	landscapemanagement.net /landscape/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=282695 (833 words)

	profit margin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although, in reality, there can be no greater than 100% certainty of an event taking place, this excess in the probability value is a useful measure of a bookie's profit margin or over-round.
		For any single match on a fixed-odds football coupon, convert the odds values to probabilities for a home win, draw and away win, and you will invariably find that their sum is greater than 100%.
		Generally, in football betting, where the result is to be forecast simply as a home, draw or away, the profit margin lies between 10% and 14%.
	members.aol.com /the12Xpert/profitm.html (584 words)

	Profit margin: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In business, revenue is the amount of money that a company actually receives from its activities, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers....
		The profit margin therefore is (1 / 5) or 20%
		A financial ratio is a ratio of two numbers of reported levels or flows of a company....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/profit_margin.htm (258 words)

	Profit Margin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Profit margin is a term commonly used in discussions of product margin, business profit, product line profit, business unit profit and company profit.
		The profit margin presentation we coach our clients to adopt, presents profit margin using direct costs with indirect costs being the first category of expenses or the last.
		The Profit System is a process for strengthening the infrastructure of your business so your business is positioned to capture maximum profits when the revenue building module of The Profit System is implemented.
	www.theprofitsystem.com /profitmargin.html (260 words)

	Small Business Calculators: Gross profit margin
		While some ratios uncover trends by looking at the past, the gross profit margin is a tool you can use to chart your company's future.
		A gross profit margin of 0.33:1 means that for every dollar in sales, you have 33 cents to cover your basic operating costs and profit.
		Because costs for raw materials, labor and manufacturing expenses all play into your profit margin ratio, a change in this ratio over time could mean it's time to look for new suppliers or review your pricing structure.
	www.bankrate.com /brm/news/biz/bizcalcs/ratiogross.asp (312 words)

	Disinfotainment: Profit Margin
		Long ago when I worked at a retail computer store, our store had a minimum profit margin on computer sales of 20% (that alone should tell you this is a LONG time ago).
		And the boss was especially infuriated because none of the salesmen could meet their margin quotas, so he started withholding their commission on low profit deals, which just added to the vicious circle of pissed offedness.
		Tyrant Boss watched over us, and he was not satisfied until every salesman demonstrated an ability to calculate the correct profit margin TWICE on his own.
	weblog.ceicher.com /archives/2004/03/profit_margin.html (496 words)

	Profit Margin
		A higher profit margin indicates a more profitable company that has better control over its costs compared to its competitors.
		Profit margin is displayed as a percentage; a 20% profit margin, for example, means the company has a net income of $0.20 for each dollar of sales.
		Imagine a company has a net income of $10 million from sales of $100 million, giving it a profit margin of 10% ($10 million/$100 million).
	www.investopedia.com /terms/p/profitmargin.asp (320 words)

	Profit margin
		My banker asked me what my profit margin was and I was embarrassed to tell him that I have no idea.
		The gross profit on a product sold, or service rendered, is computed as the money you brought in from the sale, less the cost of the goods sold (COGS.) Your COGS is the costs you actually incur in making the product or service.
		While your gross profit is expressed as a dollar amount ($3,000), your gross profit margin is a percentage, computed as follows: Gross Profit divided by Sales equals Gross Profit Margin.
	www.bmpl.cnz.com /june_16_04.htm (537 words)

	Technorati Tag: profit margin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Profit Margin Find top-rated financial advisors in your area: Free matching service.
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	www.technorati.com /tags/profit+margin (429 words)

	Low Profit Margin
		Oftentimes, Centurion Consulting Group finds that firms don't know what their profit margin is. This statistic is important to gauge how you perform against other law firms (30% is the national average -- before partner draws) and to determine which services are most profitable.
		Sometimes firms opt for the volume work which sacrifices that profit margin.
		Calculate your firm's profit and potential work profit margin.
	www.centurionconsultinglaw.com /nl13LAWOCT.html (65 words)

	Profit Margin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Understand the calculation of profit margin and its relevance to benchmarking performance in different industries.
		Be able to use profit margin and profitability ratios to improve the ability to choose among alternative courses of action.
		To give the learner an understanding of the profit margin ratio and how it can be used to compare businesses.
	www.aimlearninggroup.com /aim/lcl_online_intel_IXUS008.html (153 words)

	Profit margin - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is calculated using a formula and written as a percentage.
		For example, suppose a company produces bread and sells it for 5 units of currency.
		The profit margin would be (1 / 5) or 20%.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Profit_margin (224 words)

	After-Tax Profit Margin
		A company's after-tax profit margin is important because it tells investors the percentage of money a company actually earns per dollar of sales.
		This ratio is interpreted in the same way as profit margin - the after-tax profit margin is simply more stringent because it takes taxes into account.
		The amount of profit can increase, but that doesn't mean the company's profit margin is improving.
	www.investopedia.com /terms/a/aftertaxprofitmargin.asp (237 words)

	Profit Margin - Notes - Business Accounts - Accounting and Finance - Business Studies
		The profit margin is the level of profit, divided by the level of sales revenue as a percentage.
		For example the level of profit may have gone up, but the profit margin hasn't.
		This may mean that although the firm has sold more and made more profit, their costs must have gone up by a greater percentage than their sales revenue and so the level of profit that is left is less as a percentage.
	bized.ac.uk /learn/business/accounting/busaccounts/notes/oprof-th.htm (202 words)

	White Paper: "Margin for Profit" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Traditionally, managing margin problems and related risk has been a cumbersome, ineffective end of day process that provides little intraday value.
		In our white paper, "Margin for Profit," you'll learn how outsourced, real-time cross-margining in the securities industry can reduce cost and risk, and improve profitability.
		By exploring the major industry drivers, as well as the worlds of prime brokers, broker/dealers, and professional or active trading firms, we present a new margin paradigm designed to help financial institutions to detect, predict, and resolve margin problems in a dynamic environment.
	www.securities.sungard.com /margin_advisor/information/marginwhitepaper.htm (136 words)

	Gross Profit Margin Ratio – Financial Formulas from American Express
		The gross profit margin ratio indicates how efficiently a business is using its materials and labor in the production process.
		A high gross profit margin indicates that a business can make a reasonable profit on sales, as long as it keeps overhead costs in control.
		A high margin could indicate overpricing if business is slow and profits are weak.
	www133.americanexpress.com /osbn/tool/ratios/grossprofitmargin.asp (259 words)

	Pine Grove Software
		This business calculator calculates the gross profit margin of a series of buy and sell transactions.
		The gross profit margin and the return on investment (mark-up) are also calculated.
		A common use for this calculator is to determine the profit made on a series of stock purchases.
	www.pine-grove.com /calculators/profit.htm (230 words)

	Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: Big 'Bucks
		This abnormally high profit margin is a typical sign of monopolistic pricing; if Microsoft weren't a monopoly then a dozen competitors would have jumped in to carve themselves a part of these profits, thus reducing the profit margin to saner levels.
		For those products the 3x profit multiplier gives you a decent amount of cash, but when you are down at the $3 level a 3x multiplier simply just doesn't throw off enough raw cash to cover the fixed overheads.
		Just as Starbucks can make 1000% profit on a drink (but it's no where close to that, not even remotely), there are other companies that can't make more than 0.5% because the market won't pay more than that.
	www.proudlyserving.com /archives/2005/02/starbuckalypse.html (1373 words)

	profit margin definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		profit margin definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		amount of profit: a measure of profitability determined by dividing income after subtracting related expenses by sales, expressed as a percentage
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861736687 (76 words)

	Markup, profit and margin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I had submitted this question before, however I would like to gove you and example.
		You bought it for $10.00 and sold it for $16.67 so your profit was $6.67.
		I have talked to some people here about margin and we don't have a precise definition.
	mathcentral.uregina.ca /QQ/database/QQ.09.03/ali2.html (206 words)

	Unpeeling Apple's Nano
		It costs Apple $90.18 in materials to build the unit and $8 to assemble it, leaving a profit margin before marketing and distribution costs of about 50%.
		That's consistent with the margins on earlier iPod versions and serves as a reminder of what a profit machine the iPod family of products has become for Apple since it was introduced in 2001.
		Margins on the computer-maker's other products tend to be slimmer.
	businessweek.com /technology/content/sep2005/tc20050921_4557.htm (1264 words)

	Technorati Tag: profit margin
		Determine where your profit comes from and identify how to maximize performance.
		Oh get real they see their asses frying on election day
		A tag is like a subject or category.
	www.technorati.com /tag/profit+margin (429 words)

	Winning the price battle: a margin for profit. \| Construction and Materials Industries
		Winning the price battle: a margin for profit.
		How many more products and services would you have to sell if you usually enjoy a 25% margin; that is, the return on the same amount of profit dollars to your company?
		"Winning the price battle: a margin for profit." is an article from the Construction and Materials Industries category.
	www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/706030-1.html (483 words)

	Profit margin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		My salesman calculates a customers profit margin by dividing what the customer paid by what he sells for, then subtracting that answer from 1.
		Suppose that the customer bought the item for $b and he sold it for $s.
		Your salesman calculates the profit margin (I will call it m) by
	mathcentral.uregina.ca /QQ/database/QQ.09.03/chet1.html (230 words)

	Wealth @ HandOverFist.com (Hand Over Fist) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, physical capital, as it came to be known, consisting of both the natural capital (raw materials from nature) and the infrastructural capital (facilitating technology), became the focus of the analysis of wealth.
		Adam Smith saw wealth creation as the combination of materials, labour, land, and technology in such a way as to capture a profit.
		A cubicle worker may not be aware in how many ways their work is creating something which is of more value to their employer than the amount that employer paid to produce it.
	www.handoverfist.com (4858 words)

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