Sentence examples for tax margin from inspiring English sources

Morgan Stanley, which has added the supermarket group to its best ideas list, said: We think Tesco has scope to materially improve its UK operations and return to 3.5% earnings before interest and tax margin by 2019.

They said: Our positive outlook for easyJet's summer has proved incorrect (but second half earnings before interest and tax margin are still set to be above 22%) though the shares remain a consensus buy.

Analyst Alistair Davies at Investec said: Next has had a stellar first half, but numbers are a little short of consensus (£5m at a pretax profit level)... Within the numbers, retail had an exceptional first half – the strength of full price sales (up 8.6%) having a key role in improving the earnings before interest and tax margin by 180 basis points.

We forecast earnings before interest and tax margins to improve to 6.0% by 2017 and 6.9% by 2019, and we expect Royal Mail to be able to deliver 8.7% EBITDA and 16% earnings growth over 2014-2017.

Without too many of us taking notice on the day, they guided earnings before interest and tax margins for next year down to between 1.2% and 2.8% (versus consensus of 2.9%), and down as much as 160 basis points on last year.

Despite these gains, Panera said its restaurant margins fell 2.6% and earnings before interest and tax margins fell 2.0%.

We had already expected 1Q auto EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) margins to be below 6% but reflecting the provision we believe it is possible BMW could be loss making," Citi Research analyst Raghav Gupta-Chaudhary said.

At our current after-tax margin and price-earnings ratio, those extra revenues increase our market capitalization by nearly one-quarter of a billion dollars.

The target of a 20% pre-tax margin at MSSB by 2012 has been quietly dropped.Another worry is that the increased emphasis on the retail business will, over time, sap the cachet of the more venerable institutional business.

The Ofgem data reveals that the average pre-tax margin among the major power companies rose to 4.48% in 2016, up from 4.15% the year before and just 0.89% in 2009, when the regulator began collecting figures.

Combined with the lowest cost base in Asia, that has made for impressive financial returns.Baoshan Iron & Steel, the Shanghai-listed subsidiary of Baosteel, with capacity of some 12m tonnes, will generate a pre-tax margin of 21% in 2003, forecasts ING, a bank unheard of for a steelmaker.