Table 65-3
Professional, scientific and technical services — Selected ratios

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Professional, scientific and technical services — 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) 0.657 0.949 0.830 0.729 0.674
Profit margin (percent) 6.2 8.8 8.4 9.4 9.8
Return on equity (percent) 7.1 -22.1 21.2 17.2 18.4
Return on capital employed (percent) 5.3 -10.0 12.8 11.0 11.8
Working capital (ratio) 1.939 1.668 1.749 1.741 1.585
Quick ratio (ratio) 1.857 1.584 1.645 1.628 1.467
Inventory turnover (ratio) 29.495 30.547 25.158 22.750 21.930
Receivables turnover (ratio) 4.697 4.813 4.871 4.815 5.289
Income taxes to taxable income (percent) 22.4 21.6 20.9 20.7 20.3
  percentage change
Selected items  
Operating revenue, year-over-year change -2.5 7.9 8.6 4.3 6.6
Operating expenses, year-over-year change -3.0 4.9 9.1 3.2 6.1
Operating profit, year-over-year change 6.2 53.3 4.1 16.7 11.3
Taxable income (tax base), year-over-year change -4.2 16.4 14.0 14.1 9.7
Taxes, year-over-year change -3.3 11.7 10.6 12.8 7.7
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