Polycom (STU:PLY) Pretax Margin % : -0.39% (As of Jun. 2016)

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What is Polycom Pretax Margin %?

Pre-Tax margin is calculated as Pre-Tax Income divided by its Revenue. Polycom's Pre-Tax Income for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was €-1 Mil. Polycom's Revenue for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was €256 Mil. Therefore, Polycom's pretax margin for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was -0.39%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Polycom's Pretax Margin % or its related term are showing as below:

STU:PLY's Pretax Margin % is not ranked ^*
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Industry Median: 3.57
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Polycom Pretax Margin % Historical Data

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Polycom Pretax Margin % Chart

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9.35

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Polycom Quarterly Data
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Pretax Margin %	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															7.81	6.38	4.51	2.23	-0.39

Competitive Comparison of Polycom's Pretax Margin %

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Polycom's Pretax Margin %, along with its competitors' market caps and Pretax Margin % data, can be viewed below:

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Polycom's Pretax Margin % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Polycom's Pretax Margin % distribution charts can be found below:

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Polycom Pretax Margin % Calculation

Pretax margin - also known as pretax profit margin is the ratio of Pretax Income divided by net sales or Revenue, usually presented in percent.

Polycom's Pretax Margin for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

Pretax Margin	=	Pre-Tax Income (A: Dec. 2015 )	/	Revenue (A: Dec. 2015 )
	=	78.874	/	1163.313
	=	6.78 %

Polycom's Pretax Margin for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 is calculated as

Pretax Margin	=	Pre-Tax Income (Q: Jun. 2016 )	/	Revenue (Q: Jun. 2016 )
	=	-0.995	/	256.123
	=	-0.39 %

Polycom (STU:PLY) Pretax Margin % Explanation

The pretax margin, as know as pretax profit margin, is widely used to measure the operating efficiency of a company before deducting taxes.

The pretax margin is sometimes preferred over the net margin as tax expenditures can make profitability comparisons between companies misleading.

It is a useful tool to compare companies operating in the same sector and less effective when comparing companies from other sectors as each industry generally has different operating expenses and sales patterns.

The long term trend of the pretax margin is a good indicator of the competitiveness and health of the business.

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Polycom Inc was incorporated in December 1990 in Delaware. The Company provides an open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice, video and content collaboration solutions. Its solutions are powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich application programming interfaces (APIs) that interoperate with a set of communication, business, mobile, and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video collaboration across different environments. The Company is engaged in helping organizations achieve new levels of teamwork, efficiency and productivity by unleashing the power of human collaboration. The Company sells its solutions through a high-touch sales model that leverages its network of channel partners, including distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators; communications services providers, and retailers. The Company serves in three geographical segments; Americas, EMEA and APAC. Its products and solutions are; UC Group Systems, which includes immersive telepresence, group video and group voice systems. UC Platform, which includes collaboration servers, virtualization management "distributed media optimization", resource management, recording and streaming, open API's and remote access technologies that constitute the RealPresence Platform, and UC Personal Devices, which includes desktop video devices and desktop voice products. It competes in the UC&C market with products and solutions that enable voice, video and content collaboration on-premises, across intranets, extranets, mobile devices, and the Internet via its customer premises-based RealPresence Platform, web-based social-collaboration business platforms, and video collaboration-as-a-service offerings delivered from the cloud. These competitors include but are not limited to Cisco Systems, Inc., Acano, Avaya Inc., Blue Jeans Networks, Inc., ClearOne Communications, Inc., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Logitech International S.A./LifeSize, PexIP, Snom Technology Ag, Vidyo, Inc., Yamaha Corporation/Revolabs, Inc., Yealink, ZTE Corporation and others. Its products and services are subject to various federal, state, local, and foreign laws and regulations.

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