Small consolation that Xerox edges out HP in net profit margin, 8% to 7.3%.
However, its net profit margin was halved owing to discounting and a supply glut.
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That helps explain why ACS boasts a net profit margin of 5.2%, to 4.5% for EDS and CSC.
They have an average net profit margin of 7.6 percent, which is improved from 4.6 percent a year earlier.
Net profit margin has been adjusted to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries.
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Sageworks calculates net profit margin using pretax net profit, with owner compensation added back in to reflect true operational profits.
The average private company had a 7.6 percent net profit margin for the period, compared to 4.6 percent a year earlier.
Nevertheless, well-run Carnival uses its size to great effect and has a superior net profit margin of 19%, to Royal's 10%.
These two factors--bulging inventory and vertical integration--help explain why Tiffany's net profit margin sits at 9.6% while Graff puts his at 12%.
Net profit margin for the private companies has been adjusted to exclude taxes and include owner compensation in excess of their market-rate salaries.
In fact, for at least each of the past ten years, the industry has had a net profit margin of less than 2 percent.
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In particular, why does EMC do so well, with a 35% market share in its line of business and a 19% net profit margin?
That compares with an average net profit margin of just over 5 percent in 2011 and a recessionary low average of 2.7 percent in 2009.
The manual shows that GSK's net profit margin is in the same range as that of General Electric, Coca-Cola and Weight Watchers (see story, p. 86).
However, its net profit margin was halved amid a supply glut. (See related story here.) The company distributes Jaguar, BMW, Cadillac, Lamborghini and other makes.
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If digital photography sales bomb, Plaza Create will end up with a lot of costly assets that do nothing to boost its paper-thin 1.1% net profit margin.
Net profit margin, meanwhile, has been around 7 percent in 2011 and around 6 percent in the last 12 months, according to current Sageworks data for those periods.
In the last 12 months, net profit margin was 6.15%.
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Bierman said the healthy increase in the average net profit margin shown in the Sageworks data could allow companies to absorb some of the additional labor costs, if necessary.
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Lucrative service revenue, which can often represent a multiple of the initial purchase price and bring in a net profit margin well above the companywide 11% enjoyed last year.
Meanwhile, the average private company had a 7.3 percent net profit margin, based on financial statements from the six months ended March 2013, compared to 4.5 percent a year earlier.
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Average net profit margin, meanwhile, was 5. 1 percent in the period ended January, compared with 1.8 percent a year earlier and unchanged from the period using statements filed through December.
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Private residential construction companies, including remodelers, posted an adjusted net profit margin of nearly 4 percent in 2011, following flat margins in 2010 and -1 percent margins in 2009, Sageworks data shows.
Auto dealers have notched improvements in net profit margin from 2008, when they were barely at break even, to 2012, when they were approximately 3.8 percent, according to preliminary estimates by Sageworks.
Between 2004 and 2005, the adjusted net profit margin of the privately held oil and natural gas producers analyzed increased from 8.43 percent to 11.13 percent, which has been the recent peak in profitability for these companies.
The sales growth is slightly lower than the 10.2 percent average annual growth for statements filed in the six months ended January 2012, but net profit margin is better than the 4.6 percent margin among statements in that period.
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Ford Motor reported a slight drop in net income for the third quarter compared to a year ago, and said its profit margin would be squeezed for the remainder of the year on higher costs.
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