Segment Margin

Segment Margin
The amount of profit or loss produced by one component of a business. With large companies, just knowing the gross margin for the entire business is not always enough. Knowing the segment margins for each division of the company that generates both expenses and revenues provides a more accurate picture of where the company is creating the most value and where its strengths and weaknesses lie.

For example, an athletic shoe company might report its profit margin for the company as a whole. To provide greater detail, it could report segment margins - the profit margins for different components of the business, such as women's shoes, men's shoes, children's shoes and athletic accessories. If the company has multiple locations, it could also report the segment (geographic) margins for its Seattle stores, its Chicago stores and its Philadelphia stores, for example.


Investment dictionary. . 2012.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Сегментная маржа (SEGMENT MARGIN)  — Маржинальная прибыль сегмента предприятия за вычетом постоянных затрат, отнесенных на этот сегмент. Сегментная маржа может использоваться для оценки прибыльности сегмента в долгосрочной перспективе …   Словарь терминов по управленческому учету

  • Margin of error — This article is about the statistical precision of estimates from sample surveys. For safety margins in engineering, see Factor of safety. For tolerance in engineering, see Tolerance (engineering). Not to be confused with Margin for Error. The… …   Wikipedia

  • segment — ▪ I. segment seg‧ment 1 [ˈsegmənt] noun [countable] 1. ECONOMICS a part of the economy of a country or of a company s work: • The shipbuilding segment has reported higher earnings. • Within the health care segment, pharmaceuticals sales increased …   Financial and business terms

  • Passive margin — A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental crust which is not an active plate margin. It is constructed by sedimentation above an ancient rift, now marked by transitional crust. Continental rifting creates new ocean basins …   Wikipedia

  • Net Margin — The ratio of net profits to revenues for a company or business segment typically expressed as a percentage – that shows how much of each dollar earned by the company is translated into profits. Net margins can generally be calculated as:… …   Investment dictionary

  • fern — fernless, adj. fernlike, adj. /ferrn/, n. any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a… …   Universalium

  • Fern — /ferrn/, n. a female given name. * * * Any of about 10,000–12,000 species (division Filicophyta) of nonflowering vascular plants that have true roots, stems, and complex leaves and reproduce by spores. Though ferns were once classified with the… …   Universalium

  • Sales force management system — Sales force management systems are information systems used in marketing and management that help automate some sales and sales force management functions. They are frequently combined with a marketing information system, in which case they are… …   Wikipedia

  • Lindsaeaceae — Taxobox name = Lindsaeaceae regnum = Plantae divisio = Tracheophyta(Subdivision Euphyllophytina) classis = Polypodiopsida ordo = Polypodiales familia = Lindseaceae subdivision ranks = Genera subdivision = * Cystodium * Lindsaea * Lonchitis *… …   Wikipedia

  • сегментная маржа — Маржинальная прибыль сегмента предприятия за вычетом постоянных затрат, отнесенных на этот сегмент. Сегментная маржа может использоваться для оценки прибыльности сегмента в долгосрочной перспективе. [http://www.lexikon.ru/dict/uprav/index.html]… …   Справочник технического переводчика

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”