Operating margin
AccountingOperating profit as a percentage of revenue.
In plain terms
How much of each rupee of sales survives the cost of actually running the business.
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Other operating income
AccountingIncome arising from a company’s ordinary operations but not from the sale of its principal goods or services, presented within revenue from operations.
In plain terms
Where scheme receipts, scrap sales and export incentives usually land. Because it is inside revenue it is also inside EBITDA, which is how an operating margin improves without the manufacturing improving.
RoDTEP
Fundamental analysisAlso called: Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products
Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products — a scheme refunding embedded duties and taxes on export value as transferable electronic scrips, notified rate by rate against the customs tariff.
In plain terms
It replaced the earlier MEIS after India’s export incentives were found inconsistent with WTO rules, and it is framed as a remission rather than a subsidy for that reason. It generally sits above EBITDA, so it lifts the operating margin rather than just the tax line.