How to Use profit margin in a Sentence

profit margin

noun

• But the result has been a steady erosion of its once-hefty profit margin.
  — Esha Dey, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
• Number one is growth and number two is the profit margin.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2023
• Pilgrim’s Pride’s profit margin rose to 22 cents per pound, up from 12 cents.
  — H. Claire Brown, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• That's before the ribbon is hand-sewn on, all adding up to a cost of $13 per medal and leaving little profit margin for Hasty.
  — Mitchell Gladstone, Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2023
• At the time of the deal, 99 Cents Only had the second-highest profit margin and the most sales per square foot among its rivals, Bloomberg reported.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• Diminished demand has lowered the profit margin derived from the difference in the cost of crude oil and the sale price of gasoline at the pump.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• Its net profit margin has been a little under 2% lately, which is about half of normal.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Most of the profit margin for that company is skimmed off by Jeff Bezos [Amazon’s founder and executive chairman] in the form of cloud rent.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024
• The chain recorded a 30 percent decline in gross profit margin last quarter, largely because of shrink.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• Glauser attributed Elf Bar’s quick rise to its profit margin.
  — Matthew Perrone, Fortune Asia, 19 Dec. 2023
• That number will include the contractor’s overhead costs and profit margin.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Most business experts consider a 20% profit margin to be rich.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2023
• The company expects podcasts to have a higher profit margin than music.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• The company said its profit margin declined in the first quarter, hurt by higher promotions and changes in foreign currency.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2023
• The retailer recorded a 30 percent decline in gross profit margin last quarter, largely because of shrink.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• Favor companies that are profitable, but don’t rule out a company just because of a low profit margin — some companies make up for that via high volume.
  — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 9 July 2023
• With the Hollywood strikes in the rearview mirror, Netflix reported a blockbuster quarter, with subscribers surging, and its profit margin staying strong.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
• From the first electric self-starter in 1912—on a Cadillac—to automatic transmissions, disc brakes, turbochargers, and all the rest, high-end vehicles offered more profit margin to offset the costs of the new technologies.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
• The big four freight-rail companies are hauling in profits of around 50 percent (the average profit margin in American business is just under 10 percent).
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
• In many cases, people who have side hustles are busy performing and not accurately setting a price that ensures a positive profit margin.
  — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
• Sanofi’s rebrand comes at a time when the company is under pressure to prove to investors why its strategy involving big spending on its drug pipeline (while slashing its 2025 profit margin target) could be good.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 10 Jan. 2024
• While their profit margin on a movie ticket will be 33 percent, that number shoots up to 56 percent on a concession, according to one industry executive with access to data.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
• Flagship says the increases are needed to restore the company’s profit margin to 10 percent on ferry operations.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023
• Just weeks after the division of UnitedHealth Group that provides care to patients posted its lowest profit margin in a decade, the company has shuffled around several top executives.
  — Bob Herman Reprints, STAT, 14 Aug. 2023
• New measures will include a performance measure mix of various cash flow and profit margin metrics to link leaders to GM's long-term transformation strategy and share price performance.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2024
• The beleaguered company said its commercial airplane unit’s operating profit margin would plunge to around -20%.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• Prior to the pandemic, railroads were the U.S.'s most profitable industry, with a 50% profit margin, according to research from business advising firm Comparisun.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Despite the company’s upcoming assessment of physical property, Markell said the system is looking to grow and reach a 3 percent profit margin by the next fiscal year, which will begin after September.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
• Our focus on high-quality growth also yielded solid net profit margin expansion.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 May 2024
• While LayerZero Labs takes a fee for every piece of data sent through its messaging protocol, its significant stash of funding allows the company to look beyond pure profit margin, says Pellegrino.
  — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 4 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Aug 2024