Associated British Foods (CHIX:ABFL) Operating Income : £1,834 Mil (TTM As of Aug. 2024)

Associated British Foods Operating Income Chart

Associated British Foods Annual Data
	Trend	Aug15	Aug16	Aug17	Aug18	Aug19	Aug20	Aug21	Aug22	Aug23	Aug24
Operating Income		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					891.00	876.00	1,268.00	1,340.00	1,834.00

Associated British Foods Semi-Annual Data
	Feb15	Aug15	Feb16	Aug16	Feb17	Aug17	Feb18	Aug18	Feb19	Aug19	Feb20	Aug20	Feb21	Aug21	Feb22	Aug22	Feb23	Aug23	Feb24	Aug24
Operating Income	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															623.00	611.00	729.00	880.00	954.00

Associated British Foods Operating Income Calculation

Operating Income, is the profit a company earned through operations. All expenses, including cash expenses such as cost of goods sold (COGS), research & development, wages, and non-cash expenses, such as depreciation, depletion and amortization, have been deducted from the sales.

Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £1,834 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Associated British Foods  (CHIX:ABFl) Operating Income Explanation

1. Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition.

Associated British Foods's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2024 is calculated as:

where

Note: The Operating Income data used here is two times the semi-annual (Aug. 2024) data.

2. Joel Greenblatt's definition of Return on Capital:

Associated British Foods's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2024 is calculated as:

where Working Capital is:

When net working capital is negative, 0 is used.

Note: The EBIT data used here is two times the semi-annual (Aug. 2024) EBIT data.

3. Operating Income is also linked to Operating Margin %:

Associated British Foods's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2024 is calculated as:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

4. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the Operating Income growth rate using Operating Income per share data.

Be Aware

Compared with a company's EBITDA margin, Operating Margin can be manipulated by adjusting the rate of depreciation, depletion and amortization (DDA).

If a company is facing competition, its Operating Margin may decline. Often the Operating Margin declines well before the company's revenue or even profit decline. Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important indicator of whether the company is facing problems.

For instance, by 2012, Nokia (NOK)'s problems were well known and its stock had lost more than 90% of its market value since 2007. But Nokia's Operating Margin had already been in decline since 2002, although its earnings per share were still rising. Investors who paid attention to Operating Margin would have avoided this huge loss. The same can be said for Research-in-Motion (RIMM).

Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important screening filter for GuruFocus. GuruFocus's Buffett-Munger screener requires that the profit margin is either consistent or expanding. The Model Portfolio of the Buffett-Munger screener has outperformed the market every year since inception in 2009.

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