SKVY (Sentry Technology) Operating Income : $-0.27 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2011)

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What is Sentry Technology Operating Income?

Sentry Technology's Operating Income for the three months ended in Jun. 2011 was $-0.18 Mil. Its Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2011 was $-0.27 Mil.

Operating Margin % is calculated as Operating Income divided by its Revenue. Sentry Technology's Operating Income for the three months ended in Jun. 2011 was $-0.18 Mil. Sentry Technology's Revenue for the three months ended in Jun. 2011 was $2.18 Mil. Therefore, Sentry Technology's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2011 was -8.45%.

Sentry Technology's 5-Year average Growth Rate for Operating Margin % was 0.00% per year.

Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition. Sentry Technology's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2011 was -9.36%. Sentry Technology's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2011 was -38.24%.

Sentry Technology Operating Income Historical Data

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-0.11

Sentry Technology Quarterly Data
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Operating Income	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-0.04	0.17	-0.11	-0.15	-0.18

Sentry Technology 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 Jun. 2011 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-0.27 Mil.

Sentry Technology (OTCPK:SKVY) Operating Income Explanation

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

Sentry Technology's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2011 is calculated as:

	ROC % (Q: Jun. 2011 )
=	NOPAT	/	Average Invested Capital
=	Operating Income * ( 1 - Tax Rate % )	/	( (Invested Capital (Q: Mar. 2011 )	+	Invested Capital (Q: Jun. 2011 ))	/ count )
=	-0.736 * ( 1 - 0% )	/	( (7.8	+	7.923)	/ 2 )
=	-0.736	/	7.8615
=	-9.36 %

where

	Invested Capital		(Q: Mar. 2011 )
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	Excess Cash
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	-	max(0, Total Current Liabilities	-	Total Current Assets	+	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	))
=	4.797	-	1.814	-	( 0.365	-	max(0, 8.967	-	4.15	+	0.365	))
=	7.8

	Invested Capital		(Q: Jun. 2011 )
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	Excess Cash
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	-	max(0, Total Current Liabilities	-	Total Current Assets	+	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	))
=	4.41	-	1.893	-	( 0.33	-	max(0, 9.197	-	3.791	+	0.33	))
=	7.923

Note: The Operating Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Jun. 2011) data.

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

Sentry Technology's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2011 is calculated as:

	ROC (Joel Greenblatt) %		(Q: Jun. 2011 )
=	EBIT	/	Average of (Net fixed Assets	+	Net Working Capital)
=	EBIT	/	Average of (Property, Plant and Equipment	+	Net Working Capital)
			Q: Mar. 2011		Q: Jun. 2011
=	EBIT	/	( ( (Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital)	+	(Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital) )	/	count )
=	-0.768	/	( ( (0.468 + max(1.766, 0))	+	(0.458 + max(1.325, 0)) )	/	2 )
=	-0.768	/	( ( 2.234	+	1.783 )	/	2 )
=	-0.768	/	2.0085
=	-38.24 %

where Working Capital is:

	Working Capital		(Q: Mar. 2011 )
=	(Accounts Receivable	+	Total Inventories	+	Other Current Assets)	-	(Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	+	Defer. Rev.	+	Other Current Liabilities)
=	(1.091	+	2.089	+	0.605)	-	(1.814	+	0.205	+	0)
=	1.766

	Working Capital		(Q: Jun. 2011 )
=	(Accounts Receivable	+	Total Inventories	+	Other Current Assets)	-	(Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	+	Defer. Rev.	+	Other Current Liabilities)
=	(1.012	+	2.126	+	0.323)	-	(1.893	+	0.243	+	-1.7763568394003E-15)
=	1.325

When net working capital is negative, 0 is used.

Note: The EBIT data used here is four times the quarterly (Jun. 2011) EBIT data.

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

Sentry Technology's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2011 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %	=	Operating Income (Q: Jun. 2011 )	/	Revenue (Q: Jun. 2011 )
	=	-0.184	/	2.177
	=	-8.45 %

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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).

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Sentry Technology Corp through its subsidiaries is engaged in designing, manufacturing, selling and installing a complete line of video surveillance systems, Robotic CCTV systems, Electro-Magnetic and Radio Frequency Identification based library management systems, as well as radio frequency and EM electronic article surveillance systems. The company also manufactures travelling, robotic CCTV systems servicing customers in North and South America, Africa and Australia.

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