Fixed Costs and Economics, 220
The Case of Compaq Computer, 223
The Nature of Costs and Margins, 224
Fixed Costs and the Breakeven point for Sales, 227
Compaq Computer: The Rest of the Story, 229
Operating Leverage and Prediction, 231
Characteristics of Operating Leverage, 232
Operating Trends and Reversals, 235
The Quality of an Operating Margin, 235
A Risky Proposition: Confidence Intervals, 237
Operating Beta, 240
The Unlevered Beta Equation, 241
The Ardco Barbell Company: An Example of Unlevered Beta, 241 “Mom and Pop Store” Betas: Companies Who are Not on the Market, 244 Operations Research for the Investor, 245
Two Masters: Fisher and Buffett, 247
A Brief Operating Analysis of Fed-Ex and Staples for the Year 2000, 249
Staples and Fed-Ex Operating Histories: 1994-1999
Analysis and Statistics
The Confidence Interval Tool
Operating Margin