Sentence examples for gross margin drop from inspiring English sources

Chico's FAS, a $1.7 billion (sales) retailer of women's apparel, has seen its gross margin drop 3.4 percentage points in the past year as its store count increased to 930 from 763.

The gross margin dropped to 33.6% in 1999, its lowest this decade; the operating margin sank to 8.2%, down 1.2 percentage points for the year.

In October, Amazon reported third-quarter earnings beat expectations, but gross margin dropped to 23.4% from 24.3% in the prior quarter.

Further, second-quarter gross margin dropped 2.4% in the second quarter over the year before, and Lattice said that it expects its margin to stay the same or decline a little more.

It expects its gross margin to drop in the coming quarter.

All that said, gross margin did drop a bit, to 36.9percentt down from 41.8percentt a year ago.

Considering a situation at which gross margin would drop by 10%% and variable cost would rise by the same rate, the treatment with 60 kg ha−1 still will give the highest MRR.

It expects that in Q3 revenues will drop even further to NT$70-80 billion ($2.3-2.7 billion), with the gross margin also dropping down to 25%, and the operating margin also coming down to 7%.

Such a rule could cause gross margins to drop to 10percentt from 20percentt at Amazon, and to negative percentages for eToys, PlanetRx and Drugstore.com, according to Holly Becker, an Internet analyst at Lehman Brothers.

Saks expected its fourth-quarter gross margin rate to drop even more than the third quarter's decrease of 640 basis points as the company continues to enact promotions and markdowns.

The average gross margins have dropped from about 55% to about 50%, and will continue to fall.