The historical rank and industry rank for Meade Instruments's Operating Margin % or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:ME1N's Operating Margin % is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 3.44 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Operating Margin % only.
Meade Instruments's 5-Year Average Operating Margin % Growth Rate was 0.00% per year.
Meade Instruments Operating Margin % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Meade Instruments's Operating Margin % can be seen below:
* 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.
Competitive Comparison of Meade Instruments's Operating Margin %
For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Meade Instruments's Operating Margin %, along with its competitors' market caps and Operating Margin % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Meade Instruments's Operating Margin % Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Meade Instruments's Operating Margin % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Meade Instruments's Operating Margin % falls into.
Meade Instruments Operating Margin % Calculation
Operating Margin % - also known as operating income margin, operating profit margin and return on sales (ROS) - is the ratio of Operating Income divided by net sales or Revenue, usually presented in percent.
Meade Instruments's Operating Margin % for the fiscal year that ended in Feb. 2013 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.
Just like Gross Margin %, it is important to see a company maintains its operating margin over time. Among the same industry, a company with higher operating margin is more efficient in its operation. It is also more stable during industry slowdown or recessions. Peter Lynch prefers those with higher margins than those with lower margins.
Be Aware
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 Nokias Operating Margin % had already been in decline since 2002, although its Earnings per Share (Diluted) 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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Meade Instruments Corporation is a Delaware Corporation. The Company is a consumer products company that designs, manufactures, imports and distributes telescopes, telescope accessories, binoculars, spotting scopes, and other consumer optical products.. The Company's brands include Meade and Coronado. They are associated with the amateur astronomy, consumer optical and sporting goods markets. Products such as the LX200 series of telescopes that combine the state-of-the-art LX200 with the precision of Advanced Coma Free (ACF) optics; the LX90GPS that brings GPS capabilities to a moderately priced Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope; LS, the newest addition of fully computerized telescopes using 'Lightswitch' technology, which provides a revolutionary self-alignment routine, allowing users with no astronomy experience to enjoy a multi-media guided-tour of the night sky; also, the new LT series, which is its value platform, using the same high-quality mechanics of the LS, but the Deep Sky Imager series of high-performance charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras that have advanced astro-imaging to near point-and-shoot simplicity,. It competes in the United States and Canada with SW Technology Corporation, and Bushnell Performance Optics, Inc., and to a lesser extent, with other smaller companies which service niche markets.
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