Operating profit: the meaning
The profit or loss from normal business, after all operating costs and depreciation, before interest and taxes.
Operating profit is one of the four components of Altman's health check (return).
How to read it
Positive: the core business makes money. Negative: the business itself costs money, regardless of funding.
On Nummo you find this figure in the Figures tab of every company that filed annual accounts, over the years. In the tables, a small card gives this explanation in short.
How to calculate it
item 9901
The item numbers follow the official format of Belgian annual accounts, which builds on the European Accounting Directive.
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