The historical rank and industry rank for Nimble Storage's Operating Margin % or its related term are showing as below:
NMBL's Operating Margin % is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 3.37 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Operating Margin % only.
Nimble Storage's 5-Year Average Operating Margin % Growth Rate was 0.00% per year.
The historical data trend for Nimble Storage'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 Nimble Storage's Operating Margin %
For the Computer Hardware subindustry, Nimble Storage'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.
Nimble Storage's Operating Margin % Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Nimble Storage's Operating Margin % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Nimble Storage's Operating Margin % falls into.
Nimble Storage 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.
Nimble Storage's Operating Margin % for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2017 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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Nimble Storage (Nimble Storage) Business Description
Nimble Storage Inc was incorporated in the state of Delaware in November 2007. The Company designs and sells a flash-optimized storage platform; comprised of a Unified Flash Fabric that provides single consolidation architecture with common data services across a portfolio of All Flash and Adaptive Flash arrays and InfoSight predictive analytics with integrated support and service offerings. It enables IT organizations to optimize performance, capacity and cost for all applications running across the data center and maintain a 99.9997% measured uptime with InfoSight cloud-based management software. Adaptive Flash that it believes is disrupting the market by enabling improvements in application performance and storage capacity with superior data protection, while simplifying business operations and lowering costs. With the combination of the Company's file system, CASL, and its cloud-based storage management and support service, InfoSight, the Company's platform serves a broad array of enterprises and cloud-based service providers, and the Company's software and storage systems effectively handle mainstream applications, including virtual desktops, databases, email, collaboration and analytics. Its storage systems are optimized for the mainstream IT applications used by mid-sized enterprises, large enterprises and cloud-based service providers. The Company offers a CS-Series of systems with a range of capacities and processing power. Its systems provide adaptive performance for high-I/O applications and high-capacity environments, including Exchange, Oracle, SharePoint, SQL Server, virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI, and server virtualization. The Company packages its CASL file system software with all of its systems and offer InfoSight as a service to all its customers. Its products include CS210, CS215, CS300, CS500, CS700, ES-1 Expansion Shelves and All-Flash Shelf. Its contract manufacturer generally procures the components used in its products directly from third-party suppliers. Its marketing strategies include product marketing, programs marketing, field marketing, channel marketing, and public relations functions. Marketing activities include demand generation, advertising, managing its partner portal, trade shows and conferences, press and analyst relations, and customer awareness. The Company competes to a lesser extent with a number of other smaller companies and certain well-established companies. Its competitors fall into two categories which includes large storage system vendors such as EMC and NetApp that offer a broad portfolio of storage systems targeting varied use cases and end markets; and large systems companies such as Dell and HP that have acquired specialist storage vendors in recent years to complement their internally-developed storage offerings and have the technical and financial resources to bring competitive products to the market. The Company have registered the trademark Nimble Storage in the Un
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