Table 45-3
Clothing, department and other general merchandise stores — Selected ratios

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Clothing, department and other general merchandise stores — Selected ratios
Table summary
This table displays selected financial ratios and items. The row headers provide information on selected ratios and year-to-year change in percentage of selected items. The column headers provide a yearly breakdown for the five years covered in this tabulation.
  2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Selected ratios  
Debt to equity (ratio) 0.790 0.655 0.585 0.517 0.649
Profit margin (percent) 3.9 4.8 3.9 4.0 3.4
Return on equity (percent) 9.7 12.5 8.8 9.8 8.2
Return on capital employed (percent) 7.3 9.3 7.7 8.7 7.6
Working capital (ratio) 1.406 1.441 1.569 1.554 1.538
Quick ratio (ratio) 0.477 0.491 0.518 0.556 0.621
Inventory turnover (ratio) 5.415 5.405 5.332 5.299 5.425
Receivables turnover (ratio) 41.507 35.782 35.996 35.997 36.760
Income taxes to taxable income (percent) 29.0 27.9 26.4 25.3 25.0
  percentage change
Selected items  
Operating revenue, year-over-year change 0.3 5.4 1.5 0.7 1.7
Operating expenses, year-over-year change 0.9 4.4 2.5 0.6 2.3
Operating profit, year-over-year change -12.9 31.5 -17.6 2.5 -12.7
Taxable income (tax base), year-over-year change 3.3 11.9 17.2 -1.5 10.2
Taxes, year-over-year change 3.0 7.8 10.8 -5.5 8.7
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