106% of profits? How is it possible to have more than 100% of of something. Better title would be apple samsung had 100 % of the profits! The remaining few lost 6 % . Bundeling loss and profit in one number is misleading !
How is it possible to have more than 100% of of something.
Better title would be apple samsung had 100 % of the profits!
The remaining few lost 6 % .
Bundeling loss and profit in one number is misleading !
Imagine if the others lost almost exactly as much as Samsung and Apple earned, so the total industry profit was ten cents. Apple and Sumsung would be earning 100000000000000000000% of the industry profits. Cool!!!!
Imagine if the others lost almost exactly as much as Samsung and Apple earned, so the total industry profit was ten cents. Apple and Sumsung would be earning 100000000000000000000% of the industry profits. Cool!!!!
Imagine if the others lost almost exactly as much as Samsung and Apple earned, so the total industry profit was ten cents. Apple and Sumsung would be earning 100000000000000000000% of the industry profits. Cool!!!!
106% of profits?
How is it possible to have more than 100% of of something.
Better title would be apple samsung had 100 % of the profits!
The remaining few lost 6 % .
Bundeling loss and profit in one number is misleading !
If you add up the gains and the losses it adds up to 100%. Leave out the losses and the gains equal 106%. This has all been discussed before.
It's funny, every time this metric is mentioned there has to be a handful of dumb-asses coming here to proclaim that "you can't have more than 100% of something". Ok then, what if you have something, say a company that grows 150%? Or you can't have any company grow more than 100% either? It all depends on what you compare.
You know, it's not rocket science. The industry as a whole made X amount of money. Apple & Samsung combined made more than X. That is all.
It's like having a company with multiple divisions, some which are profitable, some which are not. Should the company then only report the profit from profitable divisions because the losses from the others "aren't profits"? LOL! SEC would have a field day with that one!
I'm going to get dinged but Apple should seriously consider Wozniaks suggestion and have Apple offer Android cell phones. If Apple buys, HTC...they get contracts, licenses, etc. as well. HTC is considered by the Industry the best Android phone worldwide. Image it would shake the very foundation of Samsungs plastic phone.
Yeah... Apple, a company that makes most of the profits already, should buy a company that makes zero profit to support a botched OS that is inferior to iOS. Great plan.
It is called profit AND loss for a reason. Growing them together to form a pross is bad math on many levels.
Where exactly is it "called profit AND loss"? It's profit OR loss, you can't have both profit & loss simultaneously. You add up all the profits & all the losses and you end up with either a net profit or a net loss. You might want to refresh your math skills, this isn't bad math.
How is it possible to have more than 100% of of something.
Better title would be apple samsung had 100 % of the profits!
The remaining few lost 6 % .
Bundeling loss and profit in one number is misleading !
What would be the point of reporting something that is always true? All the profitable companies put together always make 100% of the profits. It just takes up space and provides zero insight. There's nothing misleading about "bundling it in one number" it shows the relative strength of Apple & Samsung compared to the rest of the industry.
I don't understand why these smartphone manufacturers continue to hang in and lose money. It doesn't make any sense to just keep getting pounded quarter after quarter. I'm sure there must be other things they can do where they can be profitable. With Google's stupid, freely licensed Android OS, everyone and their mother thinks they can be some smartphone mogul building dirt-cheap smartphones out from their garages and basements. There's simply just too much of a glut of Android smartphones on the market and why can't these people see that there are no profits to be made by being a minor player. I thought the Android tablet market would also have shaken out the peanut-gallery manufacturers by now. It's like they don't know when to quit. Are they stupid or do they think they're going to get lucky? Why are there so many smartphone manufacturers? There's probably more smartphone manufacturers than microwave oven or toaster companies. It's just so absurd for them all to think they can take down the big boys that are flush with cash. Every other day on Engadget there's some new Android smartphone that's supposedly going to put Apple's iPhone business into ruins. A month later and the company is never heard from again.
Google's Android OS gave all these nobodies dreams of grandeur and the sooner it stops the better. Please, no more Android smartphones.
Where exactly is it "called profit AND loss"? It's profit OR loss, you can't have both profit & loss simultaneously. You add up all the profits & all the losses and you end up with either a net profit or a net loss. You might want to refresh your math skills, this isn't bad math.
Exactly? One's quarterly financial statement is a "Profit and Loss Statement" -- not a "Profit or Loss Statement".
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Because they gave 110% effort, right?
rolleyes
No. Because others are contributing negative profits. It all adds to 100% as it should.
How's that for a headline?
Because they gave 110% effort, right?
rolleyes
They felt good, they played good, they gave it 110%. How does someone make 106% of the profits? How does that "happen"? LOL.
How is it possible to have more than 100% of of something.
Better title would be apple samsung had 100 % of the profits!
The remaining few lost 6 % .
Bundeling loss and profit in one number is misleading !
These other companies need to listen to the analysts and cut their prices/margins and make up for the losses by selling in greater volumes. /s
106% of profits?
How is it possible to have more than 100% of of something.
Better title would be apple samsung had 100 % of the profits!
The remaining few lost 6 % .
Bundeling loss and profit in one number is misleading !
Imagine if the others lost almost exactly as much as Samsung and Apple earned, so the total industry profit was ten cents. Apple and Sumsung would be earning 100000000000000000000% of the industry profits. Cool!!!!
LoL
Except there isn't a 'loss' column in financial reports so a negative number is used in the 'profit' column to indicate a loss.
If you add up the gains and the losses it adds up to 100%. Leave out the losses and the gains equal 106%. This has all been discussed before.
It's funny, every time this metric is mentioned there has to be a handful of dumb-asses coming here to proclaim that "you can't have more than 100% of something". Ok then, what if you have something, say a company that grows 150%? Or you can't have any company grow more than 100% either? It all depends on what you compare.
You know, it's not rocket science. The industry as a whole made X amount of money. Apple & Samsung combined made more than X. That is all.
It's like having a company with multiple divisions, some which are profitable, some which are not. Should the company then only report the profit from profitable divisions because the losses from the others "aren't profits"? LOL! SEC would have a field day with that one!
I'm going to get dinged but Apple should seriously consider Wozniaks suggestion and have Apple offer Android cell phones. If Apple buys, HTC...they get contracts, licenses, etc. as well. HTC is considered by the Industry the best Android phone worldwide. Image it would shake the very foundation of Samsungs plastic phone.
Yeah... Apple, a company that makes most of the profits already, should buy a company that makes zero profit to support a botched OS that is inferior to iOS. Great plan.
It is called profit AND loss for a reason. Growing them together to form a pross is bad math on many levels.
Where exactly is it "called profit AND loss"? It's profit OR loss, you can't have both profit & loss simultaneously. You add up all the profits & all the losses and you end up with either a net profit or a net loss. You might want to refresh your math skills, this isn't bad math.
I guess either way of representing it has value, but one way seems to generate a lot more consternation than the other.
106% of profits?
How is it possible to have more than 100% of of something.
Better title would be apple samsung had 100 % of the profits!
The remaining few lost 6 % .
Bundeling loss and profit in one number is misleading !
What would be the point of reporting something that is always true? All the profitable companies put together always make 100% of the profits. It just takes up space and provides zero insight. There's nothing misleading about "bundling it in one number" it shows the relative strength of Apple & Samsung compared to the rest of the industry.
I don't understand why these smartphone manufacturers continue to hang in and lose money. It doesn't make any sense to just keep getting pounded quarter after quarter. I'm sure there must be other things they can do where they can be profitable. With Google's stupid, freely licensed Android OS, everyone and their mother thinks they can be some smartphone mogul building dirt-cheap smartphones out from their garages and basements. There's simply just too much of a glut of Android smartphones on the market and why can't these people see that there are no profits to be made by being a minor player. I thought the Android tablet market would also have shaken out the peanut-gallery manufacturers by now. It's like they don't know when to quit. Are they stupid or do they think they're going to get lucky? Why are there so many smartphone manufacturers? There's probably more smartphone manufacturers than microwave oven or toaster companies. It's just so absurd for them all to think they can take down the big boys that are flush with cash. Every other day on Engadget there's some new Android smartphone that's supposedly going to put Apple's iPhone business into ruins. A month later and the company is never heard from again.
Google's Android OS gave all these nobodies dreams of grandeur and the sooner it stops the better. Please, no more Android smartphones.
Where exactly is it "called profit AND loss"? It's profit OR loss, you can't have both profit & loss simultaneously. You add up all the profits & all the losses and you end up with either a net profit or a net loss. You might want to refresh your math skills, this isn't bad math.
Exactly? One's quarterly financial statement is a "Profit and Loss Statement" -- not a "Profit or Loss Statement".
So I can one for <$15k?