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Return on sales is an investment metric that reflects the profitability of a company.
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- 00:00
Finance allah shmoop what is return on sales or r
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o s This is your return This is your return
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on sale Any questions Oh i see a lot of
- 00:14
hands raised Ok then return on sales are roos is
- 00:18
an investment metric which basically reflects how profitable a company
Full Transcript
- 00:23
is that is return here is profits and sales is
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well the stuff you sold so return on sales is
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a profitability index It speaks to how profitable and given
- 00:35
industry or company runs take wear hauser the paper and
- 00:39
pulp company that kills trees and makes them into paper
- 00:42
in a good year They have five billion dollars in
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sales and profits of two hundred fifty million Really low
- 00:48
profit margin business especially when you consider that so many
- 00:52
years are well not good But the google search biz
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well it's a bunch of servers and algorithm and not
- 00:58
much else So in a given year on sales of
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twenty billion box it'll have returns of something like fifteen
- 01:04
billion pretax The basic notion is that you will see
- 01:08
the term return on a ton of other terms like
- 01:11
return on capital return on assets return on equity and
- 01:14
almost always the return that they're referring to There is
- 01:18
profits or earnings And from that ratio of return on
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whatever in this case return on sales Investors can impute
- 01:26
a profit margin just a fraction which then derives the
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valuation and or various other metrics Important toe Understanding a 00:01:33.812 --> [endTime] given security investment that's Why we study it
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