GlossaryProfit margin
Profit margin
The company's net margin as a line in its own pane below the chart: how much of revenue is left as earnings, per quarter or over twelve months. When the margin rises, the company earns more on every euro of revenue; when it falls, something is eating into earnings.
Good to know
- Stocks only, and only for periods in which the margin means something: if earnings exceed revenue or there is hardly any revenue, the line pauses there and the pane header says why.
- The margin goes back as far as the company's revenue and earnings, for US companies usually to around 2008.
- Compare margins mainly within an industry: software works with very different margins than a retailer.