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