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 I have concerns because annuities (where margins are high) are a smaller proportion of sales. |
| Despite the macro concerns, today's strong results should remind investors that Lowe's is executing as well in retailing today, has some significant sales and earnings drivers in installed sales, commercial and distribution, and faces a competitor that is slowing square footage and looking to improve operating margins in its core. |
| A high proportion of contract sales can shield the company from declining spot coal prices. |
| Bulk annuities did compensate this quarter, but this weakness remains an issue given that annuities supply 50% of Legal & General's new business profits. |
| Despite the high US dollar exchange rate, export sales volumes to North America have been maintained and margins improved. |
| We are encouraged by the better-than-expected (comparable-store sales) ... but we note that high promotional activity will likely continue to pressure merchandise margins. |
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| While this increase improved total sales revenue for the quarter, margins on these products are lower than margins on the company's finished products. |
| Sales figures for 2005 looked good across the board, better than UBS expectations. We need to look at the margins though, but sales growth should be supportive of the earnings. |
| If Americans expect China to take into account their concerns, it would be only logical and natural that we would expect our American friends to address out concerns, security concerns, among which the (U.S.) arms sales to Taiwan is most important. |
| We've found time and time again that sales taxes did not have a significant impact (on online sales decisions), ... Sales tax is a smaller issue for consumers. |
| It could have been a lot worse given the expectations. We had lackluster sales through the spring, through summer, terrorist attacks, and a recession, so an increase of 1 or 2 percent is decent. The bigger factor is: What were the margins of those sales? |
| Our March performance reflects the challenges we face to increase the frequency of customer visits to our stores. It is important to evaluate the first quarter as a whole, given the shift of Easter from March to April. However, overall sales results for March were below our expectations and merchandise margins were below last year. Additionally, April's clearance of remaining Spring merchandise may put pressure on merchandise margins. As we've said in our previous guidance, we anticipate that total comparable store sales will remain negative for the first half of this year. |
| Although Circuit City's first-quarter sales slightly exceeded expectations, we anticipate that the merchandise sales mix will result in lower overall gross profit margins than we initially estimated. |
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