| KLAMarine said: It's difficult for me: I'm not in the habit of looking up financial reports but going off of some recent articles, sounds like Nintendo has done pretty well: Nintendo: $190 million in profit out of $1.38 billion in net sales https://mynintendonews.com/2017/07/26/nintendo-returns-to-profit-thanks-to-nintendo-switch/ PlayStation: $160 million in operating profit out of revenue of $3.15 billion I'm not a business major, far from it. I believe profit and operating profit are two different things as are net sales and revenue so these figures are likely not directly comparable... Also, are these for the same periods of time? I often hear about quarters and to this day, I'm not entirely sure what time periods these quarters span... Seriously, this financial stuff just doesn't interest me much. I just hope the games I like are successful. |
Operating profit means the profit that is made from core operations.
For example, I believe Nintendo sold their stakes in the mariners recently. This would show up as a profit, since they made money, but it's not operating profit, because it's not part of their normal business.
Basically this is so investors can determine long term viability. Nintendo isn't going to sell a baseball team every year, so if you were to invest in them, you probably wouldn't want to consider that very heavily.
