First, take the net income figure, which is the company's bottom-line profit after paying out all operating expenses, interest, and taxes. In this example, let's say Acme Widgets' net income amounts to $7.1 million in its last complete fiscal year.
Next, locate net revenue, which can also be called net sales. In this case, Acme booked $46 million of revenue last year. Now we have everything that we need to perform our two-step calculation:
- Divide net income by net revenue – ($7.1 million)/ ($46 million) = 0.1543.
- Multiply that result by 100 – (0.1543) X (100) = 15.43%.