| 31. | Gross profit margin for the quarter was 39 . 1 percent, the company said.
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| 32. | This differs from the cost-plus and resale price methods that compare gross profit margins.
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| 33. | Retail PC sales plunged 30 percent and gross profit margins are below 5 percent.
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| 34. | Dell said its gross profit margin was 18 percent, flat with the previous quarter.
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| 35. | On the applications business, the gross profit margins are more than 80 percent, analysts estimate.
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| 36. | That hurt companies'gross profit margin, or the percentage of sales after product costs are subtracted.
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| 37. | To meet quotas, dealers may be willing to cut the gross profit margins extra slim.
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| 38. | That helped push its gross profit margin to 14.8 percent of sales from 14 percent.
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| 39. | Gross profit margin increased nine percentage points since May to 40 percent, the company said.
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| 40. | The step has also increased gross profit margins by about three percentage points, Parker said.
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