Sentence examples for overall operating margin from inspiring English sources

eBay earns a fee per transaction, enjoying an overall operating margin of 35%.To keep the sellers and buyers coming back, eBay has to innovate with new features.

While steel shipments for the company, which is based in Luxembourg, rose 1.7 percent to 21.3 million tons, compared with the first quarter of 2013, the overall operating margin for the first half of 2013 was 1.9 percent, compared with 4.5 percent for the first half of 2012.

The company's overall operating margin slid to minus 5% on a quarterly basis, according to the company statement.

While the overall operating margin is up a hair, in the Tyson chicken segment it has fallen from 7% in 2005 to 3.8% recently.

Information technology comprises nearly 60%of Wipro's revenues, but the group's overall operating margin of 14%is less than half that of firms specializing in software, such as Infosys Technologies, says R. Ravi, an analyst at Birla Marlin Securities in Bombay.

As sales at Skype grow, it could drag down eBay's overall operating margins.

As software's growth — 50%annually, predicts Ravi — continues to outpace the rest of the company, overall operating margins will rise to 18% in four years' time.

Lenovo's overall operating profit margin was just 2.1% for its 201314 financial year; the analyst Richard Windsor points out that its total operating profit of $231m, in the quarter just gone, is about the same as Motorola has been losing while under Google's wing.

He said that while the company's overall 2011 operating margin, a measure of profitability, was about 7 percent, that figure disguised the wide variation between the Audi division, with a margin of more than 11 percent, and the VW division, which was likely on the order of 4-5 percent. 4-5 percent

Overall the company's operating margin (earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation as a percent of revenue) has fallen from 11% in 2005 to 7% last year.

We excluded companies whose sickly division is on the mend or seemingly essential to the overall firm for example: Xerox's paper and media operation has a 5% operating margin, while the remaining operations rake in 21%.