Melissa Horton is a financial literacy professional. She has 10+ years of experience in the financial services and planning industry. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with ...

As a small business owner, focusing on the bottom line ensures that your establishment is financially sustainable. Profit ratio can help you measure how profitable your business is. You can compare ...

One of the most essential aspects of launching and operating a business is selling enough goods or services to pay for the company's costs. If a company can't earn enough to cover its costs, it loses ...

Operating margin is a profitability ratio that measures a company’s operating efficiency after cost of goods sold and operating expenses have been deducted from revenue. Below is an example of the net ...

Financial ratios are calculations that compare two (or more) pieces of financial data that are normally found in a company's financial statements. Ratios can be invaluable to investors making ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Being an entrepreneur for more than 30 years has taught me how important it is to track data about my business. But, I didn’t always take ...

In this post I want to talk about profitability, which is a good indicator of a company's quality and a key driver of dividend growth. I’ll cover return on equity, net return on capital and profit ...

Most owner-operators know how to figure out what it costs to run their truck — that’s your breakeven point. But there’s another number that rarely gets enough attention in this industry. It’s the one ...

Root Inc.’s ROOT profitability is underpinned by its combined ratio, a key measure of underwriting performance. A combined ratio — defined as sum of loss ratio and expense ratio — below 100% signals ...

The Progressive Corporation’s PGR profitability is underpinned by its combined ratio, a key measure of underwriting performance in the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry. The combined ...