Safeway (FRA:SWY) Operating Income : €419 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2014)

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What is Safeway Operating Income?

Safeway's Operating Income for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €73 Mil. Its Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 was €419 Mil.

Operating Margin % is calculated as Operating Income divided by its Revenue. Safeway's Operating Income for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €73 Mil. Safeway's Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €6,447 Mil. Therefore, Safeway's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 1.13%.

Safeway's 5-Year average Growth Rate for Operating Margin % was 0.00% per year.

Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition. Safeway's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 2.92%. Safeway's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 0.71%.

Safeway Operating Income Historical Data

The historical data trend for Safeway's Operating Income can be seen below:

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-431.29

876.51

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540.49

463.84

Safeway Quarterly Data
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Operating Income	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															65.75	214.55	39.55	91.41	73.10

Safeway Operating Income Calculation

Operating Income, is the profit a company earned through operations. All expenses, including cash expenses such as cost of goods sold (COGS), research & development, wages, and non-cash expenses, such as depreciation, depletion and amortization, have been deducted from the sales.

Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €419 Mil.

Safeway (FRA:SWY) Operating Income Explanation

1. Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition.

Safeway's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as:

	ROC % (Q: Sep. 2014 )
=	NOPAT	/	Average Invested Capital
=	Operating Income * ( 1 - Tax Rate % )	/	( (Invested Capital (Q: Jun. 2014 )	+	Invested Capital (Q: Sep. 2014 ))	/ count )
=	292.396 * ( 1 - 34.37% )	/	( (6455.456	+	6696.57)	/ 2 )
=	191.8994948	/	6576.013
=	2.92 %

where

	Invested Capital		(Q: Jun. 2014 )
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	Excess Cash
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	-	max(0, Total Current Liabilities	-	Total Current Assets	+	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	))
=	10089.53	-	1990.954	-	( 1643.12	-	max(0, 2221.984	-	3943.709	+	1643.12	))
=	6455.456

	Invested Capital		(Q: Sep. 2014 )
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	Excess Cash
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	-	max(0, Total Current Liabilities	-	Total Current Assets	+	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	))
=	9933.421	-	2190.26	-	( 1046.591	-	max(0, 2248.15	-	3522.342	+	1046.591	))
=	6696.57

Note: The Operating Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Sep. 2014) data.

2. Joel Greenblatt's definition of Return on Capital:

Safeway's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as:

	ROC (Joel Greenblatt) %		(Q: Sep. 2014 )
=	EBIT	/	Average of (Net fixed Assets	+	Net Working Capital)
=	EBIT	/	Average of (Property, Plant and Equipment	+	Net Working Capital)
			Q: Jun. 2014		Q: Sep. 2014
=	EBIT	/	( ( (Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital)	+	(Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital) )	/	count )
=	39.42	/	( ( (5413.133 + max(66.534, 0))	+	(5671.629 + max(-173.435, 0)) )	/	2 )
=	39.42	/	( ( 5479.667	+	5671.629 )	/	2 )
=	39.42	/	5575.648
=	0.71 %

where Working Capital is:

	Working Capital		(Q: Jun. 2014 )
=	(Accounts Receivable	+	Total Inventories	+	Other Current Assets)	-	(Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	+	Defer. Rev.	+	Other Current Liabilities)
=	(0	+	1680.141	+	377.347)	-	(1990.954	+	0	+	0)
=	66.534

	Working Capital		(Q: Sep. 2014 )
=	(Accounts Receivable	+	Total Inventories	+	Other Current Assets)	-	(Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	+	Defer. Rev.	+	Other Current Liabilities)
=	(0	+	1798.458	+	218.367)	-	(2190.26	+	0	+	0)
=	-173.435

When net working capital is negative, 0 is used.

Note: The EBIT data used here is four times the quarterly (Sep. 2014) EBIT data.

3. Operating Income is also linked to Operating Margin %:

Safeway's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %	=	Operating Income (Q: Sep. 2014 )	/	Revenue (Q: Sep. 2014 )
	=	73.099	/	6446.93
	=	1.13 %

4. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the Operating Income growth rate using Operating Income per share data.

Be Aware

Compared with a company's EBITDA margin, Operating Margin can be manipulated by adjusting the rate of depreciation, depletion and amortization (DDA).

If a company is facing competition, its Operating Margin may decline. Often the Operating Margin declines well before the company's revenue or even profit decline. Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important indicator of whether the company is facing problems.

For instance, by 2012, Nokia (NOK)'s problems were well known and its stock had lost more than 90% of its market value since 2007. But Nokia's Operating Margin had already been in decline since 2002, although its earnings per share were still rising. Investors who paid attention to Operating Margin would have avoided this huge loss. The same can be said for Research-in-Motion (RIMM).

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Safeway Inc was incorporated in the state of Delaware in July 1986 as SSI Holdings Corporation and, thereafter, its name was changed to Safeway Stores, Incorporated. In February 1990, the Company changed its name to Safeway Inc. The Company is a food and drug retailers in the United States, with 1,335 stores at year-end 2013. The Company's U.S. retail operations are located principally in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Colorado, Arizona, Texas and the Mid-Atlantic region. The Company also has a network of distribution, manufacturing and food-processing facilities. The Company retail business operates into seven geographic retail operating segments; Denver, Eastern, Northern California, Phoenix, Northwest, Texas and Southern California. In all geographical retail operating segments, it operates one store format, where each store offers the same general mix of products with similar pricing to similar categories of customers. The Company does not operate supercenters, warehouse formats, combination clothing/grocery stores or discount stores. It owns and operates GroceryWorks.com Operating Company, LLC ("GroceryWorks"), an online grocery channel doing business under the names Safeway.com and Vons.com. Safeway's stores provide grocery items tailored to local preferences. Its stores offer a selection of food and general merchandise and feature a variety of specialty departments such as bakery, delicatessen, floral and pharmacy. In addition, its stores offer Starbucks coffee shops and adjacent fuel centers. The Company also owns more than 300 other trademarks registered and/or pending in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and other jurisdictions, including trademarks for its product and services such as Safeway, Safeway SELECT, Rancher's Reserve, O Organics, Lucerne, Primo Taglio, Eating Right, mom to mom, waterfront BISTRO, Bright Green, Pantry Essentials, Open Nature, Refreshe, Snack Artist, Signature CafÃ©, Priority, just for U, My Simple Nutrition, Ingredients for Life, and other trademarks such as Pak'N Save Foods, Vons, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, and Carrs Quality Centers. Blackhawk, a subsidiary of Safeway, provides third-party gift cards, prepaid cards, telecom cards and sports and entertainment cards to a group of top North American retailers for sale to retail customers. The competitive factors that affect the Company's business are location, quality, price, condition of assets, marketing and promotional strategies, service and consumer loyalty to other brands and stores. It faces intense competition from traditional grocery retailers, non-traditional competitors such as supercenters and club stores, as well as from specialty supermarkets, drug stores, dollar stores, convenience stores and restaurants. The Company's compliance with the federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations have been adopted regulating the discharge of materials into the environment or otherwise related to the p

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