ESTIMATING THE PROFITABILITY OF POOL COOPERATIVES

Zvi Lerman () and Claudia Parliament

No 13788, Staff Papers from University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics

Abstract: Profitability measures are omitted from performance analyses of marketing pool cooperatives that do not include raw products in their reported costs. A procedure to estimate the profitability of these cooperatives is proposed, converting net proceeds to a figure comparable to standard net profit or net margin. The median ROE calculated using the proposed adjustment was found to be significantly different from the median ROE of "net-margin-reporting" pools over the period 1971-1987. Application of this procedure will allow pool cooperatives to compare their profitability to other cooperatives and investor-owned firms.

Keywords: Agribusiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.13788

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