Tao Francis
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430 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2022
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are really on the rise.
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You know, when companies really start getting going, when the economy starts growing, there's more demand for a lot of this, for energy, for commodities, for labor.
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And as we all know, in sort of Econ 101, demand goes up, the cost tends to go up as well.
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So companies are facing these higher costs at the same time that they're seeing higher demand.
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Certainly, analysts and investors seem to be expecting continued growth.
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The fact that profit margins may not be growing as dramatically going forward does not mean that companies will suddenly start losing money or will start making less money.
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What we're talking about is a slowdown in the growth of profit margins.
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In other words, how much
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can companies make for every dollar of sales that they bring in.
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Analysts are seeing a pretty rosy next few quarters.
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Now, the caveat is that the farther out in the future you go, the more optimistic analysts tend to be.
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So you can't go by that entirely, but it certainly doesn't seem like they're expecting the profit growth to stop.
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It just will increase a little more slowly.
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Well, technology has certainly been going like gangbusters.
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You're seeing industrial companies do pretty well
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as well.
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It's fairly broad-based.
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There are some sectors that are not doing so great.
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Utilities have been lagging a little bit.
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But for the most part, you're really seeing a fairly broad-based growth in profits.
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