We'll start to see improved margins and some very nice flow-through in the third quarter.
James Perry
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Expectations for them are very low. Any improvement they can show on the merchandising side without compromising margins is a positive.
Arun Daniel
Data provided by certain Arizona wholesalers and distributors indicated that they were able to increase their gross margins to 20 or 30 cents per gallon on some sales post Katrina.
Andrea Esquer
A continued focus on margins and little change in activity in database demand will likely keep many investors on the sidelines until some more convincing catalysts are in evidence.
Christopher Shilakes
We have looked at that and it is a doable thing but the margins are small, ... It's better to have a plan, than to not have one.
Wayne Hale
Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter.
Robert Campbell
It's nice to see that kind of improvement. It still doesn't compare to Dell's margins, but HP is headed down the right path.
Cindy Shaw
If you make it more expensive to hire people, businesses won't hire those people on the margins, entry level positions I mean.
Chris Gleason
The picture is stark. These children are on the margins of society.
Mike Aaronson
In general, the business-to-business market has the potential for better margins. When dealing in that market, you don't have all the marketing expenditures you deal with when you're trying to attract consumers.
Sara Zeilstra
Given that the margins are that high, it's probably going to be a trend that continues.
Hal Halpin
Quality was not as high as we would have hoped. Company operated margins were lower than we were expecting.
Larry Miller
Nokia will have a tough time boosting its margins in the future given the tough competitive climate.
Greger Johansson
Despite this decline in prices, we maintained flat gross margins.
James Schneider
Our results and improved outlook reflect a strong commitment to growth, expanding margins and improving how we do business every day.
Jim Mcnerney
They were very close margins. Hopefully this time, we'll take it one step further and get the win.
Alex Loughton
There are some risks and challenges. As they expand internationally, their costs are going to go up. So we'll still see that top-line growth, but we'll see some pinch there on the costs and the operating margins.
Denise Garcia
High margins are an inducement to invest more aggressively.
Jan Hatzius
Non-farm income is essential for covering family expenses in today's farming with tight profit margins.
Roger Derouchey
We are hopeful that with economies of scale, we will be able to hold margins at current levels.
Akhil Gupta
It will negatively affect our profit margins.
Richard Natale
Short-term, chip sets is the fastest-growing part of our business but we have to attack the margins there.
Dave Orton
We're still leading the way but the margins are narrowing and rival countries have learnt from us. I'm in it to win it and we're here to win and the gloves are off.
Peter Fricker
My intention was to reduce the revenue of the company and increase the [profit] margins.
Bob Bishop
There's not much in the way of revenue growth and their margins are not going up. That's not a particularly good story.
Tim Daubenspeck
Falling margins, which is really investment in customers, is very much a part of turning the company around.
Arun Sarin
They'll look to see where they can enhance margins with acquisitions. Will they ever get it up to the corporate average? It's hard to say.
Peter Klein
We are absolutely focused on growing this business in the categories that have better margins.
Larry Pope
If you look back, analysts were feeling that margins were going to decline. That hasn't happened, and instead the margins continue to go up.
Howard Wheeldon
To be able to achieve that, we need to have margins at or above 20 percent.
Craig Mchugh
The profit margins of these companies are utterly unsustainable. And this should be the inflection year for the Indian firms.
Rod Bourgeois
Our margins are better and we maintained asset quality. We will continue to invest in a resurgent Asia but will balance our growth with a stronger focus on productivity.
Jackson Tai
We continue to expect Heinz to divest non-core assets, to generate strong cash flow, to deliver improving margins and eventually to sell or partner the business.
Ann Gurkin
By holding at this power level, we are ensuring we maintain ample margins to ensure plant reliability.
Jay Thayer
If UPS provides access to high growth areas like China and India, we will give them the benefit of the doubt on margins.
Tobias Crabtree
The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan.
Arun Sarin
The profit margin index is well above the 50%-level, indicating that, for most firms, profit margins are higher than one year ago, when margins were showing improvement from their depressed levels throughout 2001-2002.
Donald A. Norman
It's nothing new for HP to cut prices and Dell can still make good money in desktops even though margins have come down.
Thomas Carpenter
We're anticipating margins will go up in the next couple of years.
Jane Coffey
It will be perceived positively. It will improve their margins.
Martin Feldman
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
Bill Russell
Margins are holding up very well, considering growth is in the emerging markets.
Thor Udenaes
Impressive revenue growth came with a degradation of margins.
William Shope
We're going to add some counterweight and start over. We just cut our margins too close.
Mike Sutton
The deep dark-shining Pacific leans on the land Feeling his cold strength To the outmost margins.
Robinson Jeffers
The high margins meant selling cars was one of the most glamorous businesses to be in during the 1950s and '60s.
Will Whitehorn
The continental business was the main star, showing strong year-on-year growth and improving margins.
Bruno Paulson
Obviously, (theft) affects profit margins.
Rob Wacker
We expect strong fourth-quarter results but foresee abating organic growth and falling margins in 2006.
Greger Johansson
The cable companies are concerned about their profit margins.
Chris Carroll
Every year we come up here, it's always close games --sometimes overtime, one or two points. This might be one of the largest margins.
Scott Oltmann
The (wireless data service) forecast is very positive especially because of the significantly higher margins there.
Lex Werkheim
Because of margins, you can lose infinitely greater amounts of money than what you have. You're trading into thin air.
Chris Anderson
Appears to be a good quarter overall, driven by strong top-line growth and continued improvement in gross margins.
Timothy Anderson
We do this as a service to our clients, ... We're not in the exorbitant mark-up business. We're living on margins of 25 percent.
David Lord
The profit margins in the analog area hold up much better than some chip companies that are more cyclical.
Sunil Reddy
We teach firms to be able to step back, look at their company, and identify things that increase sales and improve margins.
Gary Kravitz
Our earnings performance in the fourth quarter met expectations with increased gross margins, lower costs and operational improvements. We delivered another quarter - and another year - of earnings growth.
Anne M. Mulcahy
We took a very conscious decision to lower our margins ... but the result has been, of course, we have sold very much higher volumes.
Brian Duffy
The company has moved a lot of its production abroad and that should help it increase future profit margins and keep its growth targets.
Patrizio Pazzaglia
Cisco have high margins and all the customers know that.
Steve Pusey
Telstra has been able to maintain very high margins in its traditional market.
Paul Budde
This has never worked in history -- getting rid of incentives by cutting dealer profit margins, I don't want to be too negative. It is one of the few things [GM] can do to try to create some excitement.
George Hoffer
The transaction will likely require Watson to raise another $1 billion in debt and will further dilute its already industry-lowest margins.
Megan Murphy
But the last thing you want to see happen is for e-retailers to include their profit margins in the shipping charges.
Bill Swinyard
We expect 2006 to be another good year for Pearson as we continue to increase margins and grow ahead of our markets.
Marjorie Scardino
It's going to push some people who are at the margins of being able to afford it into the consumer category.
Michael Franc
The story in (the first quarter) was soft wireless margins.
David Barden
SES has been arguing that its margins have been depressed because of investments in new services. One would have expected that once those investments in services wound down, there would have been a greater recovery.
Morten Singleton
Despite the high US dollar exchange rate, export sales volumes to North America have been maintained and margins improved.
David Warrick
With some notable exceptions, manufacturers continue to experience difficult times, with high energy costs continuing to add pressure to profit margins.
Doug Godden
Inventory buildup may have near-term negative impact on PC margins.
Richard Gardner
I don't know why you want more of a evaporating business that will slow your revenue growth and lower your margins.
Greg Gorbatenko
The profit margins in this market are not outstanding in any direction. China is becoming a regular market.
Alexander Klose
It's overall a mixed bag. The margins on the earnings were better than expected. The top line was worse than expected.
Richard Petersen
We have a group of guys who believe they can match anyone in this league but all the margins are very tight.
John Brain
The impact of lean initiative has been our operating margins have improved ... and defects have gone down.
Robert Bohn
Our key operational focus is just loans growth and margins and basically in that regard, DBS was able to push some relatively good figures.
Ismael Pili
Gross margins were flat in spite of a fairly easy comparison because of pressure from Reward Zone.
Danielle Fox
The infrastructure market has collapsed and margins have fallen from 20 percent to 4 percent.
Paul Cooper
We expect a poor product mix, with growing price competition in branded PCs to continue depressing its margins in 2006.
Tony Tseng
If they are able to maintain margins at anywhere near a historical level, they are going to shoot the lights out with a cracking result.
Matt Hoult
We believe the fundamentals continue to materially improve and that sales productivity and margins will continue to improve in 2006.
Adrienne Tennant
People have been concerned that Intel's margins are in contraction mode, so what they say about that will be noteworthy.
Ben Halliburton
The company continues to rapidly expand capacity at a time when demand is coming in much weaker than anticipated, which we believe will have a leveraged and negative impact on margins in the fourth quarter and 2001.
Jonathan Joseph
The margins on the mini are far higher than the shuffle, so if the mini steals sales, it's to Apple's benefit.
Charlie Wolf
We weren't racking up the margins we needed in the Bull Run-Linton Hall area. In the areas where Kilgore should have been making up ground, he tied.
Brian Murphy
We certainly could reach these levels sooner, but it depends on the economic environment and the actual revenue and margins achieved.
Bill Teuber
Intel's gross margins tie into the chip cycle. When the cycle starts to peak, margins at Intel peak.
Apjit Walia
We feel increasingly confident that 2006 will be a year when top-line, earnings growth and margins will accelerate.
Michael Steib
Dealers are losing their profit margins, cutting prices to get sales.
Trilby Lundberg
In the Czech Republic, competition is so fierce that there is no way of growing margins. You can only grow volume.
Matthias Siller
Licenses are a little better, though they could have been a bit stronger. Margins were a little weaker than the Street had been looking for.
John Segrich
Cisco front-loaded several quarters of costs into one quarter in order to make its gross margins look better.
Ariane Mahler
Improving margins are most of the story.
Gene Pisasale
Digital sales are growing quite nicely, and that's beneficial because the margins are higher.
Nick Bertolotti
Everyone has bought BP for its U.S. exposure. It's delivered on that to an extent, but not as much as people had hoped, and now the U.S. environment is easing; refining margins are coming back, gas prices are easing off.
Jon Wright
Over time, the competition will become even more intense. There will be a time when the margins are impacted a bit.
James Ragan
On top of that, rates are still very high, which guarantee good margins for the sector.
Alvaro Bandeira
There is not 17 cents a gallon to be taken out of the wholesale margins. It's just not there.
Richard Parry
It's very important to get gross margins moving in the right direction.
Alex Vallecillo
Most of our wins have been by larger margins, so it was good to be in a close game. We know the tradition that Key West has and they played hard.
John Crumbley
The hope is they (Cerberus) can improve sales and improve margins to actually make it a better deal for us.
Richard Auletta
There's a lot that has to be done at this company to get (margins at) the commercial part above 5 percent.
Nicholas Heymann
Gulf Coast gasoline and diesel margins are at record levels for April. The forward curve is showing these record margins continuing through the summer.
Bill Klesse
Although the company lowered guidance, we expect further downside to (analysts) consensus estimates due to lower gross margins.
Christopher Danely
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
J. G. Ballard
With today's thin margins, aerial chemical applicators are cost prohibitive for me at $5 to 6 an acre.
Joe Newton
They will be facing head winds of (component) pricing going up, but they've done a good job of managing margins last several quarters.
Shannon Cross
Margins either must stop shrinking or we will have to close our business.
Peter Wang
Our focus is on increasing pre-tax margins and returns on capital in our core car and truck rental operations.
Sandy Miller
It's not going to affect monetary policy. The Fed is forward looking. The change is at the low end of expectations. At the margins, it may affect investors by refocusing on inflation. They are already concerned about oil prices.
Gary Schlossberg
This is a very good report, as expected. It's clearly a very strong quarter, and they're executing very well to get gross margins to the high end of their expected range.
Eric Rothdeutsch
This is a company that's beaten consensus estimates for a number of quarters in a row. This time it just hit the consensus with margins a little lower softer than expected.
Eric Bosshard
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