"industry margin" is a correct phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the difference between the price of a product or service and what it costs for a business to produce. For example: "The small business was not able to make a profit because their industry margin was too low."
But with the outlook for growth subdued in the banking industry, margins down and more costly regulations coming in, investors were unimpressed.
"Our results reflect higher crude oil realizations and stronger chemical margins while the downstream industry margins remained weak," Rex Tillerson, Exxon's chief executive, said in a statement on Thursday.
Chief executive Rex Tillerson described the figures as "solid" and said: "Our results reflect higher crude oil realisations and stronger chemical margins while the downstream industry margins remain weak".
While the Pricelines of the world hack away at industry margins, insiders fear that business travel could subside as teleconferencing and document sharing replace face-to-face meetings.
Cox already owns the Discovery Networks, while Comcast has stakes in the QVC channel and E! This combination of pricier programming and a dearth of new networks on the horizon to supply hefty launch fees for cable companies is one of many factors squeezing industry margins.
AHIP says the health insurance industry profit margin is only 4.4%, and that this "low margin" represents less than one penny out of every dollar spent on all health care in the U.S.
The merchants are also making more on each garment -- a calculation the industry calls margin.
Indeed, we see vulnerabilities in Ocado's business model still from the potential loss of its relationship with Waitrose, a tightening industry gross margin environment and lower delivery fees, driven by Tesco and Morrisons.
Therefore, the production model developed is believed to reflect the industry gross margin for the different beef suckler systems.
"With operating margins of about 30percentthethe stations generally underperform the industry, where margins tend to be in the 40percentt range," he said, adding that the News Corporation gets about $1.5 billion that is on the balance sheet.
