I wonder what's the profit margin for an average fortune 500 company ?

[jimmyhaha]

I wonder what's the profit margin for an average fortune 500 company ?

friends told me that some product have a 500% markup, but I think most retail industry don't make much on selling a product, but a SH!TLOAD on shelf displaying or inclusion of the brand in their store ?

what about other industry ?

anyone happen to have a link.

Thanks.

 

[StageLeft]

Considering fortune 500 covers all industries you're right it would definitely depend on the industry they're in or what they're selling!

 

[jimmyhaha]

> Considering fortune 500 covers all industries you're right it would definitely depend on the industry they're in or what they're selling!

I am saying AVERAGE.. and Retail industry ... ?

anyone have info ?

 

[conjur]

$1.83

It's all in the volume.

 

[jimmyhaha]

1.83

It's all in the volume.

percentagewise...

WTF I am going to with the number above ?

 

[vi edit]

10% bottom line

 

[StageLeft]

I don't think anybody here is going to have the number for you. I defy you to find it anywhere on the net either

 

[jimmyhaha]

lol.. maybe I should find some place with all the data online like

total earnings, revenue, and put them into a databse and crunch out the result myself...

or someone else is already doing it and availabe on the web ?

 

[Hector13]

Here are some numbers from 98:

Agriculture -- Beef Cattle: 3%
Agriculture -- Lawn & Garden Services: 3.9%
Manufacturing -- Men's Shirts: 5.5%
Manufacturing -- Men's footwear (except athletic): 4.8%
Manufacturing -- Semiconductors and related devices: 4.2%
Retail -- Department Stores: 1.5%
Retail -- Grocery Stores: 1.5%
Retail -- Jewelry Stores: 4.2%
Services -- Beauty Shops: 5.7%
Services -- Colleges & Universities: 11.2%

These numbers come from the "industry norms and key business rations" by dun & bradstreet. The numbers are medians and the industry classifications/names are from D&B, I guess.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Yeah the D&B and the Moores are the 2 places to look for this info. You'd probably be pretty suprised, they are a lot lower than a lot of people think. Volume=winnar

 

[jimmyhaha]

thanks guys... much appreciated for your info.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Hector13
Here are some numbers from 98:

Agriculture -- Beef Cattle: 3%
Agriculture -- Lawn & Garden Services: 3.9%
Manufacturing -- Men's Shirts: 5.5%
Manufacturing -- Men's footwear (except athletic): 4.8%
Manufacturing -- Semiconductors and related devices: 4.2%
Retail -- Department Stores: 1.5%
Retail -- Grocery Stores: 1.5%
Retail -- Jewelry Stores: 4.2%
Services -- Beauty Shops: 5.7%
Services -- Colleges & Universities: 11.2%

These numbers come from the "industry norms and key business rations" by dun & bradstreet. The numbers are medians and the industry classifications/names are from D&B, I guess.

Wow?

A lot of those seem exceedingly low.. especially jewelry?

 

[Mday]

you should realize those are averaged numbers. there are companies that have higher margins. and recall competition exists in a fair market society.

just a reminder, debeers has a monopoly on diamonds.

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: Mday
you should realize those are averaged numbers. there are companies that have higher margins. and recall competition exists in a fair market society.

just a reminder, debeers has a monopoly on diamonds.

the numbers above are medians, not averages. Also, I don't know the specifics about the industry classifications, but I don't think debeers fits under jewelry retairs.

FYI, for jewelry retailers, the top quartile has a profit margin of 9.8% (the bottom quartile has 1.4%). The median turnover (sales/assets) is 159%