Profit requirement (margin)

What this is

The operator's profit requirement: a share of ticket revenue that has to remain as operating profit.

This is the return an operator would need for the service to be worth running, and it is deducted in the net result alongside the real costs, which is why it sits as a peer of the operator and infrastructure totals rather than inside either.

The operator's profit requirement: deducted in the net result, not paid to anyone.

The formula

$$C_{EBIT} = \sum_{od} R_{od} \times q_{EBIT}$$

	Symbol	Meaning	Unit	Where it comes from
Input	R_od	Ticket revenue per connection and year	€/year	ticket_revenue_eur
Input	q_EBIT	Required operating profit as a share of revenue	fraction	operator_ebit_margin_per
Result	C_EBIT	Annual profit requirement	€/year	—

Feeds into: net_eur

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