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A good operating margin is needed for a company to be able to pay for its fixed costs, such as interest on debt. A higher operating margin means that the company has less financial risk. Operating margin can be considered total revenue from product sales less all costs before adjustment for taxes, dividends to shareholders, and interest on debt.
A company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (commonly abbreviated EBITDA, [1] pronounced / ˈ iː b ɪ t d ɑː,-b ə-, ˈ ɛ-/ [2]) is a measure of a company's profitability of the operating business only, thus before any effects of indebtedness, state-mandated payments, and costs required to maintain its asset base.
A professional investor contemplating a change to the capital structure of a firm (e.g., through a leveraged buyout) first evaluates a firm's fundamental earnings potential (reflected by earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and EBIT), and then determines the optimal use of debt versus equity (equity value).
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Profit margin is calculated with selling price (or revenue) taken as base times 100. It is the percentage of selling price that is turned into profit, whereas "profit percentage" or "markup" is the percentage of cost price that one gets as profit on top of cost price.
Gross profit in the fourth quarter of 2024 was $698 million, an increase of 9% versus the fourth quarter of 2023. Gross margin in the fourth quarter of 2024 improved by 70 basis points (a) to 40%. Income from operations for the fourth quarter of 2024 was $219 million, an increase of $40 million, or 23%, versus the fourth quarter of 2023.
Contribution margin analysis is a measure of operating leverage; it measures how growth in sales translates to growth in profits. The contribution margin is computed by using a contribution income statement, a management accounting version of the income statement that has been reformatted to group together a business's fixed and variable costs.
“I’m proud of our performance in 2024. Our utility operations led continued improvement in our consolidated earnings, even with the headwinds we experienced from higher power supply and operating costs during the year,” said Avista President and CEO Heather Rosentrater.