A profitability trend is the evolution of profit within a business. An upward trend means that profit has generally increased over time in the short or long run. A downward profitability trend means profits are declining. Recognizing problems early in profitability trends gives you a better chance to address revenue and cost issues in play.
Profitability refers to a company's relative ability to generate a profit currently and into the future. However, a new business may not have yielded a quarterly profit, but it could have increasing profitability if its profit trend is improving.
On the contrary, an established business may have generated profit in a recent period, while its recent profitability trends call its future viability into question. In the long run, net profitability is vital to achieving for-profit business objectives. However, profit trends are often a strong sign as to big-picture profitability.
The demonstration of Profitability Trend performance shows the comparison of different quantile portfolios. Portfolios were rebalanced monthly using a market-cap weighted method, with 20 bps deducted as costs per transaction.
| Annual Return |
| Cumulative Return |
| Volatility |
| Sharpe ratio |
| Calmar ratio |
| Max Drawdown |
| Omega ratio |
| Sortino ratio |
| Skew |
| Kurtosis |
| Tail ratio |
| Monthly value at risk |
| Alpha |
| Beta |
| SPY |
| 9.37% |
| 678.46 |
| 14.47% |
| 0.69 |
| 0.18 |
| -52.56% |
| 1.68 |
| 1.04 |
| -0.61 |
| 1.40 |
| 0.99 |
| -0.06 |
| 0.00% |
| 1.00 |
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6 | Q7 | Q8 | Q9 | Q10 |
| 11.41% | 7.91% | 9.32% | 9.55% | 9.16% | 9.78% | 10.47% | 10.74% | 10.89% | 9.47% |
| 1090.09 | 471.78 | 671.07 | 709.07 | 645.10 | 747.79 | 879.03 | 936.85 | 969.25 | 695.72 |
| 20.02% | 17.95% | 19.29% | 18.47% | 17.39% | 17.04% | 16.73% | 16.77% | 16.31% | 17.41% |
| 0.64 | 0.52 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.59 | 0.63 | 0.68 | 0.70 | 0.72 | 0.61 |
| 0.22 | 0.14 | 0.18 | 0.17 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 0.24 | 0.23 |
| -52.63% | -54.55% | -50.75% | -56.48% | -45.99% | -48.74% | -48.81% | -50.34% | -45.17% | -42.02% |
| 1.73 | 1.53 | 1.61 | 1.63 | 1.60 | 1.65 | 1.69 | 1.72 | 1.76 | 1.60 |
| 1.05 | 0.78 | 0.85 | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.99 | 1.10 | 1.10 | 1.14 | 0.97 |
| 0.18 | -0.40 | -0.32 | -0.11 | -0.24 | -0.21 | -0.07 | -0.20 | -0.14 | 0.01 |
| 5.16 | 4.97 | 6.74 | 4.39 | 3.05 | 2.51 | 1.95 | 2.78 | 1.93 | 2.43 |
| 1.34 | 1.20 | 1.03 | 1.07 | 1.05 | 1.23 | 1.15 | 1.13 | 1.17 | 1.17 |
| -0.08 | -0.08 | -0.08 | -0.08 | -0.07 | -0.07 | -0.07 | -0.07 | -0.07 | -0.07 |
| 3.70% | 0.50% | 1.24% | 1.59% | 1.40% | 2.04% | 2.73% | 3.06% | 3.29% | 1.91% |
| 1.11 | 1.06 | 1.16 | 1.12 | 1.08 | 1.06 | 1.05 | 1.04 | 1.02 | 1.05 |