Sentence examples for fall in profitability from inspiring English sources
The phrase "fall in profitability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a decrease or decline in a company's profits or financial performance over a specific period.
Example: "The recent market trends have led to a significant fall in profitability for many businesses in the sector."
Alternatives: "decline in profitability" or "drop in profitability".
Still, the company forecast a slight fall in profitability in the coming year -- flat net profits on a 3.4percentt rise in sales.
The company said the fall in profitability was due to "certain non-recurring overhead costs".
Saipem blamed the fall in profitability on low margin contracts and said in a lengthy presentation on Wednesday that it was taking measures to avoid undesirable deals, including withdrawing bids from some projects.
As a consequence of the fall in profitability, two loss making gas-fired power stations will be closed, and capital investment in the North Sea is being slashed by 40% due to falling oil prices Overall, as Centrica's boss Iain Conn admitted, "2014 was not the year we had planned it to be".However, the company's pain was the consumer's gain even if not enough for some.
While this finding is not robust for all rates, it possibly underscores the banks' need to compensate for the fall in profitability that occurs when more loans become non-performing and losses are provisioned.
Not all the sufferers are high-technology firms Citigroup, Bank of America and Continental Airlines all opened the week with announcements of large falls in profitability.
Despite the forecasted falls in profitability of up to 40% at the investment banking arms of Barclays, HSBC and RBS, their combined pay and bonus pool is expected to reach around £5bn for the first half.
Both Barclays and Deutsche are lowering their targets for returns on equity, in Deutsche's case to just 12% after tax, well down on the 25% pre-tax target it once aimed for.There are two main reasons for the sharp falls in profitability at investment banks everywhere.
In those circumstances, the real value of debt increases, consumers stop spending in anticipation of even lower prices and companies go bust because the "stickiness of wages" means the cost of labour falls far less quickly than prices, thereby leading to big falls in profitability.
Although it raised its estimate for earnings last year to $18 billion from an earlier estimate of $16 billion, the forecast of an even steeper than expected fall in airline profitability makes a gloomy backdrop for the 49th Paris air show at Le Bourget airfield this week.
This drop in profitability has caused many to increase their production to offset falling prices.
