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Profit Margin

You collect revenues from sales. You have expenses that go with them. Subtract B from A and you get profits. Then put profits in the numberator and sales in the denominator, and you get the margin.

Margins are fractions. Duh.

See: Gross Margin. See: Operating Margin. See: Net Margin.

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