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How is net profit margin calculated? Some weighted average or is it net profit of every company divided by revenue of every company?


This article will provide some insight: https://insight.factset.com/sp-500-reporting-higher-net-prof...

In short, yeah, it depends. You need to carefully look at each data source and decide what exactly they mean by "net profit %" for an index.




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