"But you don't like to see them give it all away in gross margins."

In the third quarter, it reported gross margins of 43 percent.

"Can you really get away with charging $3,500 per year, especially when your gross margins are 82 percent?"

Such a change could be one logical cause for the fall in its gross margin.

Some analysts said they expected the gross margin to fall to 19 percent, which is low by industry standards.

In the previous quarter, the company's gross margin was 69.3 percent.

"They knocked the cover off the ball on gross margin."

Some investors have focused on the difference in gross margins at the companies.

He said the gross margin for the service business had also risen because of lower overall costs.

He estimated that the company's gross margins for the year would be 35.4 percent, compared with 37.8 in 1987.

The agency's gross profits were $175 million on billings of $1.25 billion last year.

However, gross profit was down only £2m to £94m.

Yesterday he traded it three times for a gross profit of $50.

If so, it would mean a gross profit of $165 million.

But combined with service and support, he said, the big machines account for almost a third of the company's gross profit.

Last year, it posted a gross profit of $12.4 million.

I had to pay back 100 percent of the gross profit every week until my debt was retired.

Positively, gross profit per unit from new car sales was up 13pc.

The gross profit from our plant sales was $836 million.

But the cost of sales also climbed, meaning gross profits fell yet again.