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Summary table — Operating profit margin by industries

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Summary table — Operating profit margin by industries
  2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
  percent
Total all industries 9.6 9.4 7.7 9.3 9.9
Total finance and insurance industries 27.2 25.2 20.4 25.1 26.0
Banking and other depository credit intermediation 27.8 23.4 25.0 27.9 31.6
Local credit unions 16.8 19.6 9.7 12.3 15.2
Non-depository credit intermediation 46.5 44.3 42.6 63.3 61.8
Central credit unions 17.8 4.9 29.6 24.1 17.8
Financial transactions processing, loan brokers and other activities related to credit intermediation 18.1 17.1 22.7 19.7 21.7
Securities and commodity contracts intermediation and brokerage 24.6 19.2 14.9 15.4 8.5
Securities and commodity exchanges and other financial investment activities 45.8 38.2 34.8 42.3 46.6
Life, health and medical insurance carriers 11.5 23.2 3.1 3.3 0.3
Property and casualty insurance carriers 16.0 9.7 10.0 10.5 10.7
Agencies, brokerages and other insurance related activities 15.3 14.8 15.2 17.1 17.8
Total non-financial industries 7.5 7.7 6.3 7.5 8.1
Agriculture, fishing, hunting, trapping and support activities 9.7 11.7 7.0 10.3 12.5
Forestry, logging and support activities 3.2 1.8 1.1 3.7 4.7
Oil and gas extraction and support activities 14.2 18.2 7.1 7.2 8.5
Mining and quarrying (except oil and gas) 20.4 20.1 12.5 22.6 22.2
Utilities 14.5 13.7 15.0 15.5 16.2
Construction 6.2 6.5 5.7 5.9 6.1
Food and soft drink manufacturing 5.7 5.2 5.8 6.3 6.0
Alcoholic beverage and tobacco manufacturing 24.0 23.6 25.4 23.6 24.0
Clothing, textile and leather manufacturing 1.8 2.5 2.5 3.1 3.9
Wood product manufacturing -0.3 -1.8 -3.2 4.3 1.4
Paper manufacturing 0.9 -1.2 1.6 4.4 3.3
Printing and related support activities 4.2 4.3 2.2 5.6 5.8
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing 14.3 13.3 3.7 6.1 9.3
Basic chemical manufacturing 10.6 3.9 6.7 10.5 13.2
Resin, synthetic rubber, and artificial and synthetic fibres and filaments manufacturing 2.6 2.4 1.4 7.9 9.7
Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing 7.1 8.2 8.8 9.8 10.7
Soap, agriculture, paint and other chemical products manufacturing 9.5 14.4 13.7 14.2 17.2
Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 4.5 2.6 3.4 5.1 4.2
Non-metallic mineral product manufacturing 11.7 11.2 8.9 11.0 10.9
Primary metal manufacturing 11.5 9.7 1.7 9.2 12.2
Fabricated metal product and machinery manufacturing 5.3 5.8 4.7 5.2 7.2
Computer and electronic product manufacturing 9.2 12.0 11.8 15.6 13.9
Electrical equipment, appliance and component manufacturing 13.7 2.1 2.1 3.9 4.7
Motor vehicle and trailer manufacturing 0.5 -4.0 -3.9 0.7 2.3
Motor vehicle parts manufacturing 4.1 1.5 -0.5 4.6 6.5
Air, rail and ship products and other transportation equipment manufacturing 4.5 3.0 4.8 8.1 11.5
Furniture and related product manufacturing 2.5 2.6 2.7 3.5 3.5
Miscellaneous manufacturing 5.6 4.1 4.0 3.6 3.9
Food, beverage, tobacco and farm product wholesaler-distributors 3.2 3.2 3.4 4.2 4.6
Petroleum product wholesaler-distributors 1.0 0.7 1.7 0.3 1.0
Motor vehicle and parts wholesaler-distributors 3.0 3.0 1.9 3.0 3.3
Building material and supplies wholesaler-distributors 5.0 4.9 3.4 4.7 4.8
Farm, construction, forestry, mining and other industrial machinery and equipment and supplies wholesaler-distributors 5.4 4.7 3.7 4.6 6.4
Computer, communications and other machinery and equipment wholesaler-distributors 3.6 2.6 3.4 3.2 3.7
Miscellaneous wholesaler-distributors 4.3 3.9 4.0 4.7 4.3
Motor vehicle and parts dealers 1.6 1.9 2.1 2.2 2.3
Furniture, home furnishings, electronics and appliance stores 3.4 3.9 3.0 4.1 4.1
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers 6.1 5.4 4.1 4.8 3.2
Food and beverage stores 6.1 7.4 7.7 7.8 8.1
Gasoline stations 2.0 2.2 2.2 1.9 2.2
Clothing, department and other general merchandise stores 4.5 4.5 3.9 4.8 4.0
Miscellaneous retailers 5.3 5.5 5.5 6.1 5.7
Air transportation 6.2 2.8 -0.1 5.1 4.4
Rail, truck, water and other transportation 7.3 7.4 7.1 8.7 7.8
Pipelines, warehousing and transportation support activities 13.3 13.1 12.6 12.5 12.2
Publishing industries (except Internet) 13.2 16.3 16.0 16.0 13.1
Broadcasting, motion pictures, sound recording and information services 10.0 9.5 9.0 11.2 11.8
Telecommunications 18.2 17.3 18.0 19.3 19.8
Real estate 21.0 20.8 19.7 21.4 23.6
Automotive, machinery and equipment and other rental and leasing 10.7 11.5 9.4 11.8 14.6
Professional, scientific and technical services 5.7 5.7 6.2 8.8 9.1
Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services 5.3 4.5 5.4 6.5 6.2
Educational, healthcare and social assistance services 13.9 16.4 17.3 18.2 19.0
Arts, entertainment and recreation 20.3 21.3 21.2 20.5 22.0
Accommodation services 12.4 9.9 9.1 10.6 11.0
Food services and drinking places 3.4 3.8 3.4 3.8 4.0
Repair, maintenance and personal services 5.2 5.2 4.7 5.4 6.3
Note(s):
Operating profit margin = (operating profit) / (total operating revenue)
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