Business ratio report: oil and gas exploration, refining and distribution. 6. ed.

The value of this publication is that it not only complies and assimilates a vast wealth of information, but it also presents it in an easily digestible form. Relative company performance is ranked in a series of tables and compared with an overall average for the industry. Performance is measured using a series of business ratios, a simple and familiar method of permitting otherwise unlike data to be compared. A number of complementary growth rates add a further dimension to the analysis. The Report analyses a fixed sample of companies over a three year period. As an indication of the longer-term trend a graphical representation of the return on capital, profit margin, stock to sales, credit period, profit per employee and sales per employee ratios are featured for a period of up to seven years. (author)