Profit margins

Even though inflation has subsided, interest rates are heading down, and the labor market is loosening up, many business owners say the problems that emerged over the last few years haven’t gone away.

Netflix will stop disclosing subscriber numbers next year. Companies revising what measures they use to indicate performance is nothing new.

Margins can be as little as 1%. But there are three ways to look at rate of return, and other factors to consider.