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Solution Provider Adopts Microsoft Software, Sees Profit Margin Rise By 30 Percent
White Papers Sysnet - a longtime IBM Business Partner - resisted the IBM focus on licenses and wanted a more solutions-based approach to selling. When the IT provider learned more about Microsoft and its partnership philosophy, Sysnet enthusiastically joined...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Will The Merger Dull HP's Crown Jewel?
News The printing and imaging division's fourth-quarter profit margin was 10.5 percent, down from 12.6 percent in the same period a year earlier. Lexmark, one of HP's main rivals at the low end of the market, recently reported 2001 gross margin of 31.5...
[February 10, 2002, 6:31]
Sony Ericsson Issues Stark Profit Warning
News However, Sony Ericsson expects gross margin to remain "relatively stable" for the first quarter of 2008 when compared with the same quarter in 2007, which saw a gross margin of 30.3 percent. Sony Ericsson has issued a profit warning a month ahead...
[March 19, 2008, 13:39]
IBM Beats Street In Q2 But Asia Takes Its Toll
News The software gross profit margin improved 6 percent. For the quarter, IBM's overall gross profit margin was 38 percent in the second quarter compared with 39.2 percent in the year-ago period. IBM beat Wall Street estimates by a penny a share in its...
[July 21, 1998, 11:43]
IBM Cruises In Record Q4
News Most impressive, IBM's software business checked in with a gross profit margin of 75.2 percent, up more than 3 percent from last year. Its total gross profit margin, however, declined from 40.1 percent to 39 percent in the quarter.
[January 22, 1999, 9:34]
Online Sales Help Dell In Q3
News The company, which saw gross margin of 20.2 percent in the third quarter, suffered from a 150 percent increase in memory chip prices. In fiscal 1998, Dell saw gross margin of 22.5 percent. During a conference call with analysts, Dell executives...
[November 12, 1999, 10:09]
Online Price Deflation Threatens E-tailers
News He argues that on the Web there is a smaller profit margin as the prices are naturally more competitive -- an increased volume is necessary to compensate. E-tailers are finding themselves in the worst of all worlds, where they have a small profit...
[October 12, 2000, 8:15]
Electronics Sales Boost Amazon's Results
News In the same quarter last year, the company posted a profit margin of $128m, or 22 percent of sales. Gross profit margin is the difference between what a company charges consumers for its goods and services and what its costs the company to provide...
[April 25, 2001, 9:08]
Hot Chips Boost Micron
News We are pleased with the improvements in gross margin accomplished over successive quarters," Steve Appleton, Micron's chief executive and president, said in a statement. The first-quarter gross margin of 26 percent is, in part, a result of...
[December 29, 2003, 10:35]
Intel Earnings Surpass Expectations
News One issue for Intel in the quarter was its gross margin, which contributed to the profit drop mentioned above and a sharp decline in the price of Intel shares during after-hours trading. The company's gross margin percentage (revenue minus the cost...
[July 18, 2007, 12:40]
Startup Spotlight: Netstore
News The vast majority of their profit comes from selling Compaq computers, where they only get a four per cent margin. My profit margin is, however, reasonable, which is very different to the average dotcom business, where it is unusual for their...
[March 29, 2000, 15:35]
EMC, Hitachi Squabble Over Big Customer
News Now that has changed completely, with the 57.7 percent gross margin in the company's third quarter of 2000 plunging to 30 percent in 2001. We believe that HDS is less willing to decimate its margin structure than its competition," Seyrafi said.
[November 9, 2001, 10:17]
Intel Earnings Beat Targets
News Intel saw increases during the quarter both in the average selling price of its processors used in PCs and servers and in gross margin percentage. Gross margin came to 51.6 percent, compared with 49 percent in the third quarter.
[January 15, 2003, 7:50]
Yahoo! Profitable Again
News In marketing services, the company's core online advertising business and its high-margin relationship with Overture accounted for $177.5m in revenue, up 31 percent from last year. s earnings report) says is they're getting traction in high-margin...
[January 16, 2003, 10:02]
The Day Ahead: Web Brokers' Profits Can't Buy Wall Street's Love
News If margin trading declines or is capped, brokers may lose a good revenue stream. Meanwhile, margin trading has been pegged as one of the reasons the Nasdaq was so volatile in the first place. When stocks tank, margin calls happen.
[May 2, 2000, 11:42]
Profit Check
Downloads It is a price list equipped with a margin and markup calculator, an intensive product database, and a currency converter of over 170 monetary values. Price list - margin, markup, costs, and prices of products are included; by default, products, and...
[September 23, 2006, 14:46]
Novell: Microsoft 'sucked $60bn' Out Of The Industry
Talkback Derek R> When MS are running on an 85% profit margin, I would say they're sucking money too.
[September 16, 2004, 12:22]
How Avaya Maintenance Services Puts Dollar Rent A Car In The Driver's Seat
White Papers With annual revenues exceeding $769 million and the highest profit margin of any car rental company serving airport customers, Dollar Rent A Car's results-oriented culture has given it oriented culture has given it the added distinction of having...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Vista Architect Quits Microsoft For Amazon
Talkback Or are you more about selling whatever leads to the highest overall profit margin and who cares about the customer (until they stop generating profit because then we move in some account manager to wine and dine them into their next mistake, errr...
[September 8, 2006, 22:56]
Fighting Microsoft's Licence Check
Talkback If everyone paid for Windows, Microsoft wouldn't reduce the price they would just enjoy a lager profit margin! To Softstag post Piracy is not theft! It's Copy Right Infringement! Think of the root of the problem why people used pirated software...
[June 23, 2006, 1:41]
