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Profit margin

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-003955

A measure of a company's profitability, calculated by dividing net income by revenue and expressed as a percentage. It indicates how many cents of profit the business generates for each dollar of sales. There are several types of profit margin, including gross profit margin, operating profit margin, and net profit margin, which account for different sets of costs.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-003955
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-003955",
  "term": "Profit margin",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "A measure of a company's profitability, calculated by dividing net income by revenue and expressed as a percentage. It indicates how many cents of profit the business generates for each dollar of sales. There are several types of profit margin, including gross profit margin, operating profit margin, and net profit margin, which account for different sets of costs.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/profit-margin/"
}

Record 3,997 of 5,441 in Law terminology (MLC-0107). Request the full dataset.