The "million-dollar" measure refers to either total revenue generated or the value of the enterprise built (as opposed to the size of the total profit pile).
Total net operating profit exceeded JPY 23 trillion.
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But to suggest, as the Obama campaign ad does, that Bain shuttered GST simply to make a profit betrays a total misunderstanding of the outside forces affecting all U.S. steel production.
Even a 50 basis point increase in annual growth of customers per restaurant beyond our projections would boost our price estimate by almost 3% assuming we hold the total number of restaurants and profit margins flat.
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Gross profit is the difference between total revenue and cost of goods sold and for many small business owners this measure is intuitive and nothing new.
Revenue from audio products is down 13% and sales of video gear and TV sets are flat, pulling down overall profit margins--and total profits--by more than half in the past two years.
We analyzed 26 industries (excluding trading companies) of the Global 2000 and scored each company on long-term and short-term sales growth, profit growth, return on capital and total return to shareholders.
To find these companies we analyzed 26 industries (excluding trading companies) of the Global 2000 and scored each company on long-term and short-term sales growth, profit growth, return on capital and total return to shareholders.
In 1996, Enron earned a profit equaling 4.3% of its total assets--already sub-par.
Twenty-five-year contracts signed in the early and mid-1990s had management fees as high as 3.5% of total revenues, plus 6-10% of gross operating profit.
The total cost to society of a credit hour of instruction at for-profit institutions is vastly lower than at not-for-profit schools.
With a 24% decline in HDD ASPs, s, a 50% unit shipment growth and a 13.5% increase in total revenues over five years it is obvious that HDDs have been experiencing declining profit margins over this period.
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WPP's profit centres into closer contact and has shifted two-thirds of its total services to a fee-based system.
Other theoreticians say we should add the profit and the wages paid out by the company together and this gives us the total value added.
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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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Gaming revenue as a percentage of total revenue is much higher in Macau than it is in Las Vegas and its no secret that profit margins on gambling are much better than they are for food service and other tourist-related businesses like entertainment and hotel rooms.
But it won't show a profit for at least several years, so it must keep investors entranced with fabulous growth in total revenue, revenue per customer and customer base.
Profit margins for feature phones may be very thin (they contributed just half of Nokia's total phone revenue), but these economies are rapidly getting richer.
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Total real business investment rose by 1.1%, much better than might have been expected from the dispiriting profit figures that American companies have been reporting.
This is the measure of output (taken as operating profit after tax and some other adjustments) less input (taken as the annual rental charge on the total capital employed, both debt and equity).
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