Sentence examples for margins decline from inspiring English sources

As share prices fall, margins decline and revenues may fail to cover fixed costs.

Fed officials are hoping that companies absorb the cost of higher wages by letting their profit margins decline, not by passing on price hikes to customers.

And if profit margins decline sharply — by about 10 percent or so — history suggests that it's time to say goodbye to the bull market.

How? Cardinal has the industry's lowest cost structure, which allows it to raise operating margins even as gross margins decline.

The portable chips also bring in bigger profits for Intel, which has seen its profit margins decline over the past year as a result of stronger competition primarily from Applied Micro Devices amd and National Semiconductor nsm –at the low end of the desktop market.

Gross margins declined 0.8 percentage points to 27.5percentt.

Pro forma operating margins declined 6.1 percent as well.

Gross profit margins declined to 25.9percentt in the quarter, down from 28.9percentt a year ago.

Its margins declined for four quarters before rebounding in the fourth quarter.

Revenue increased 13 percent to $136.3 billion, but profit margins declined to 5.4 percent, from 6.1 percent in 2010.

But with the resurgence of Japan and Western Europe in the 1960s and '70s, American profit margins declined and workers got squeezed.