Executive & Board / Financial Strategy
Net Profit Margin Net Margin / Net Income Margin (the "bottom line")
The share of each revenue dollar left as profit after every cost, operations, interest, and taxes.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
In a board deck the single word "margin" points to different rungs of the P&L ladder, and the speaker rarely names which.
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: SEC Regulation S-X Rule 5-03 · FASB ASC 220 (Income Statement presentation)