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Monday, November 28, 2011

Operating Income and Operating Profit Margin

Operating revenue and operating profit
Operating income or operating profit, as it is sometimes called the pre-tax profits from its business activities. What are the owners of a few other things to pay, for example, preferred stock dividends and income taxes (do not worry - we include all those other things later in the lesson).

Can be used to assess the overall health status of its principal activities or business income. Everything else being equal, it is one of the key figures you will ever need to know. The reason is simple and intuitive, unless the company has many assets that it can sell, but the money that will flow to the shareholders must be received from the sale of something like a product or service.

If the company is experiencing declining operating income will be less money to the owners, development, debt reduction, or even someone's management hopes to achieve. This is one of the reasons that it is closely watched by lenders and shareholders. In fact, the income used to calculate the interest coverage ratio and operating margin.

Income calculation
Operating Income = Gross Profit - Operating Expenses
Operating profit margin (operating profit or margin), operating profit margin of other management metrics. He compares the quality of the company's competitors. Business, operating profit margin higher than other industries, tend to have better, as long as profit does not come piling debt or very risky speculation on the shareholders' money.

The most common reason for the large differences in performance compared to its competitors, is a low-cost business model, which means that the company can deliver the goods or services to customers, much cheaper than competitors prices and still make money. A classic example is Wal-Mart, which can get everything from toothpaste to socks to the store much lower prices for its warehouse distribution system performance. I explained the low-end commodity Like corporate risk business model of beauty. They are the few exceptional cases, when you can do a lot of money otherwise unattractive industry.

Calculating the operating profit margin

To calculate the operating profit margin, divide the income of all income.
Operating income to sales, operating profit margin =
Likewise, how did you find the gross profit margin, what is considered "good" depends on the industry. There is one very important thing to learn, though. I'm serious. Stop what you're doing, and focus on the following statement: The most important figure in the non-operating income. This is the unleveraged returns. It may not make sense to you now, but at the end of lessons. It is possible (though unlikely), a business that generates a 3% operating margins than the lucrative business, which has a 20% operating margins owners. Again, there is no reason to worry, we will get later. Just realize. Remember. Write down some of the paper. It is that important.

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