Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Dow Industrials Just Edge Non-Profit Hospitals in 2012 Bottom Line Profit Margins.....9.6% to 9.4%

Below here are the US GAAP Bottom Line Net Income, Revenues and Profit Margins of the 30 Companies that were in the Dow Industrials Index for most of the last year:


Net



Income


From
Profit


Continuing Total Margin

FYE Operations Revenues %


mil $s mil $s
Dow Industrials








Hewlett Packard Oct 12          -12,650         120,357 -10.5%
Alcoa Dec 12               162           23,700 0.7%
WalMart Jan 13           17,756         469,114 3.8%
Boeing Dec 12             3,903           81,698 4.8%
United Health Dec 12             5,526         110,618 5.0%
Bank of America Dec 12             4,188           83,334 5.0%
AT&T Dec 12             7,539         127,434 5.9%
Home Depot Jan 13             4,535           74,754 6.1%
DuPont Dec 12             2,493           35,310 7.1%
Caterpillar Dec 12             5,722           65,875 8.7%
United Technologies Dec 12             5,200           57,708 9.0%
Verizon Communications Dec 12           10,557         115,846 9.1%
Travelers Dec 12             2,473           25,740 9.6%
Exxon Mobil Dec 12           47,681         482,295 9.9%
General Electric Dec 12           14,902         147,359 10.1%
Chevron Dec 12           26,336         241,909 10.9%
Merck Dec 12             6,299           47,267 13.3%
Procter & Gamble Jun 13           11,402           84,167 13.5%
American Express Dec 12             4,482           31,582 14.2%
Walt Disney Sep 12             6,173           42,278 14.6%
3M Dec 12             4,511           29,904 15.1%
Johnson & Johnson Dec 12           10,514           67,224 15.6%
IBM Dec 12           16,604         104,507 15.9%
Pfizer Dec 12             9,518           58,986 16.1%
Coca Cola Dec 12             9,086           48,017 18.9%
McDonalds Dec 12             5,465           27,567 19.8%
Cisco Systems Jul 13             9,983           48,607 20.5%
Intel Dec 12           11,005           53,341 20.6%
JPMorgan Chase Dec 12           21,284           97,031 21.9%
Microsoft Jun 13           21,863           77,849 28.1%





Total all 30 Corps
        294,512      3,081,378 9.6%

In comparison to this 9.6% Profit Margin for the Dow Industrials, in my most recent post, I showed that the 41 largest Not-For-Profit Hospital Organizations generated a Total Bottom Line Profit Margin of 9.4%.

Does it make any sense for these Profit Margins to be so close?  Absolutely not!

And the 9.4% Profit Margin of the 41 Not-For-Profit Hospital Organizations exceeded that of 12 of the Dow Industrial Companies.  And Exxon Mobil's 9.9% Profit Margin just edged that of these Hospitals.

The clear conclusion here is that these Hospitals have been operating on all cylinders financially during Obamacare.  And their Hospital Operating Income will be doing even much better when the Uninsured get insurance and the Underinsured get much better insurance in 2014 and beyond when Obamacare totally kicks in.

Hospitals have done a great job so far in substantially reducing the percentage increase in Total US Health Care costs in each of the most recent three years.  But with their substantially enhanced Net Asset Positions, or Financial Strength, during the first 4 1/2 years of the Obama Administration, they will be doing an even better job in future years.  I think the CBO is substantially overstating both future Total US Health Care Costs as well as the future US Deficits resulting from Health Care.

I'm just saying!