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Dot Hill Systems (Dot Hill Systems) Operating Margin % : 1.26% (As of Jun. 2015)


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What is Dot Hill Systems Operating Margin %?

Operating Margin % is calculated as Operating Income divided by its Revenue. Dot Hill Systems's Operating Income for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $0.8 Mil. Dot Hill Systems's Revenue for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $61.5 Mil. Therefore, Dot Hill Systems's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was 1.26%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Dot Hill Systems's Operating Margin % or its related term are showing as below:


HILL's Operating Margin % is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 3.44
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Operating Margin % only.

Dot Hill Systems's 5-Year Average Operating Margin % Growth Rate was 0.00% per year.

Dot Hill Systems's Operating Income for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $0.8 Mil. Its Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015 was $13.4 Mil.


Dot Hill Systems Operating Margin % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Dot Hill Systems'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.

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Dot Hill Systems Operating Margin % Chart

Dot Hill Systems Annual Data
Trend Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14
Operating Margin %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -2.79 -4.24 -4.96 2.73 3.81

Dot Hill Systems Quarterly Data
Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15
Operating Margin % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.02 0.17 12.48 6.37 1.26

Competitive Comparison of Dot Hill Systems's Operating Margin %

For the Computer Hardware subindustry, Dot Hill Systems'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.


Dot Hill Systems's Operating Margin % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Dot Hill Systems's Operating Margin % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Dot Hill Systems's Operating Margin % falls into.



Dot Hill Systems 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.

Dot Hill Systems's Operating Margin % for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as

Operating Margin %=Operating Income (A: Dec. 2014 ) / Revenue (A: Dec. 2014 )
=8.303 / 217.665
=3.81 %

Dot Hill Systems's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 is calculated as

Operating Margin %=Operating Income (Q: Jun. 2015 ) / Revenue (Q: Jun. 2015 )
=0.773 / 61.539
=1.26 %

* 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.


Dot Hill Systems  (NAS:HILL) Operating Margin % Explanation

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 Nokia’s 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).

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Dot Hill Systems (Dot Hill Systems) Business Description

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Dot Hill Systems Corp was formed in 1999 by the combination of Box Hill Systems Corp., or Box Hill, and Artecon, Inc., or Artecon. It reincorporated in Delaware in 2001. It designs, manufactures and markets a range of software and hardware storage systems for the entry and mid-range storage markets. The Company sells its products through server-based original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Hewlett-Packard, or HP, Dell Inc. or Dell, Lenovo Group Limited or Lenovo, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD, and Stratus Technologies or Stratus; as well as into vertical markets through embedded solutions OEM's, such as Teradata Corporation or Teradata, CGG Veritas or CGG, Motorola, Inc. or Motorola, Tektronix Inc. or Tektronix, Samsung Electronics or Samsung, Concurrent Computer Corporation or Concurrent, Autodesk Inc. or Autodesk, Harris Broadcast Communications and Nokia Siemens Network or Nokia Siemens, which primarily include media and entertainment, telecommunications, high performance computing, digital image archive, big data and oil and gas. The Company's products, from small capacity direct attached to complete multi-hundred terabyte, or TB, storage area networks, or SANs, provide end-users with a cost-effective means of addressing increasing storage demands at compelling price-performance points. The Company's current product family based on its AssuredSAN architecture provides high performance and large disk array capacities for a broad variety of environments, employing Fibre Channel, Internet Small Computer Systems Interface, or iSCSI and Serial Attached SCSI, or SAS, interconnects to switches and/or hosts. In addition, its Assured family of data protection software products provides additional layers of data protection options to complement its line of storage disk arrays. The Company's current mainstream 2000 and 3000 series of entry-level storage products and Just a Bunch of Disks, or JBOD, arrays are targeted primarily at mainstream enterprise and small-to-medium business, or SMB, applications. The Company's AssuredSAN products have been distinguished by certification as Network Equipment Building System, or NEBS, Level 3 (a telecommunications standard for equipment used in central offices) and are MIL-STD-810F (a military standard created by the U.S.government) compliant based on their ruggedness and reliability. In February 2010, it launched the latest AssuredSAN 3000 series of storage arrays that provide high speed interface options including 8 gigabyte, or GB, Fibre Channel, 1GB and 10GB iSCSI over Ethernet and 6GB SAS connectivity. The Company's AssuredUVS product line, formerly known as the intelligent storage networking system, or iSN TM, is based on the technology it acquired in January 2010 from Cloverleaf Communications, Inc., or Cloverleaf, a privately held software company focused on heterogeneous storage virtualization and unified storage technologies. AssuredSnap is its DMS software that introduces p
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