ROIC – How to Calculate ROIC – NOPAT Vs. Net Income

How to Calculate Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) – Why use NOPAT?

Return on invested capital (ROIC) is usually calculated with Net Operating Profit After Taxes (NOPAT) instead of just corporate profits more commonly measured as Net Income (NI).  What about NOPAT makes it a superior indicator of corporate profitability vs. net income?

NOPAT Definition

NOPAT (Net Operating Profit After Taxes) is the profit that a company realizes from ongoing profit generating operations of the company.  For example, a stereo store will count earnings from selling stereos using NOPAT, but will not count income from leasing out extra space in it’s stereo store building as an office to another business, as that is not a part of it’s primary business activity.  This is different than net income, which counts all income a company generates, even if it is not generated from it’s primary business activity.

How to calculate NOPAT

Here is how to calculate NOPAT:

Net Sales – Operating Expenses = Operating Profit (Also known as EBIT or Profit from Operations)
EBIT – Taxes = NOPAT

A good thing about NOPAT is that it starts with net sales instead of net income, which eliminates income and expenses that are not associated with the main profit making operations of a company.  This eliminates items like interest expense and interest income. 

By focusing on profits (earnings) that are generated from the ongoing operations of a company, instead of the overall net income of a company, which contains GAAP related items that create financial noise, a clearer picture will emerge to help you find companies that are growing and may make good investments.

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