Europe had a more pronounced (negative) impact on profitability, with CRH's
underlying operating profit margin falling to just 4.0 %.
Anglo - Dutch rival Unilever, which this year rebuffed a $ 143 billion takeover bid from Kraft Heinz, has set a goal of 20 percent for
its underlying operating profit margin by 2020.
Not exact matches
The group wants to achieve an
underlying trading
operating profit margin of 17.5 to 18.5 percent by then, up from 16 percent in 2016.
We can obviously treat all prior research expenditure as a «free option» at this point, and amortize the 2013 expense accordingly (by adding back two thirds of the spend), which reveals an
underlying 18.9 % adjusted
operating profit margin.
The
underlying (adj)
operating profit margin has increased somewhat, to about 5.2 %.