Profitability Metrics

How much of each rupee of sales or capital the business keeps as profit. 21 topics.

EBITDA

Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization. A proxy for cash operating profit before capital spending.

Earnings before interest and tax. In practice this is operating profit when there are no large non-operating items inside it.

Profit after all expenses including interest, and before the tax charge.

Profit left after tax. It is the bottom line that belongs to shareholders before dividing by the share count.

Profit after operating costs and interest, before income tax. The Indian-statement name for earnings before tax.

Revenue minus the direct cost of producing the goods or services sold.

Gross profit as a percentage of revenue.

Profit from the core business after operating expenses, including depreciation, and before interest and tax.

Operating profit as a percentage of revenue.

Profit after tax as a percentage of revenue.

Profit after tax divided by shareholders' equity. The return owners earned on the book capital they have in the firm.

Operating profit relative to the capital used in the business, both equity and interest-bearing debt.

Profit relative to total assets. It shows how hard the asset base works.

After-tax operating profit divided by the capital investors have put into operations.

Profit after tax divided by net worth. In Indian filings this is the regulatory cousin of ROE.

Profit attributable to shareholders, divided by the number of shares.

Earnings per share after assuming that dilutive options, warrants, and convertibles have become shares.

Earnings per share using only the shares currently outstanding, weighted for how long they were outstanding.

EBITDA as a percentage of revenue.

EBIT as a percentage of revenue. The operating margin after depreciation and amortization.

A cash version of return on capital, using cash earnings in place of accounting profit.