They have an average net profit margin of 7.6 percent, which is improved from 4.6 percent a year earlier.
That compares with an average net profit margin of just over 5 percent in 2011 and a recessionary low average of 2.7 percent in 2009.
Bierman said the healthy increase in the average net profit margin shown in the Sageworks data could allow companies to absorb some of the additional labor costs, if necessary.
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Average net profit margin, meanwhile, was 5. 1 percent in the period ended January, compared with 1.8 percent a year earlier and unchanged from the period using statements filed through December.
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No wonder South Korean car makers' net profit margins average below 2%.
Indian tech companies have held up well in the global slump, with the top six IT services companies reporting an average 135% rise in net profit in the final quarter of 2000 against the same period in 1999, according to Salomon Smith Barney.
Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg before the earnings announcement were projecting a net profit of Y66bn on average.
Preliminary estimates show that private-company sales increased nearly 8 percent in 2012, and net profit margins, on average, increased to around 8 percent from around 5 percent in 2011.
According to financial statements filed in the six months ended January 2013, privately held companies saw average annual sales growth of 9 percent and net profit margins of 8.1 percent.
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The average private company had a 7.6 percent net profit margin for the period, compared to 4.6 percent a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the average private company had a 7.3 percent net profit margin, based on financial statements from the six months ended March 2013, compared to 4.5 percent a year earlier.
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Net profit margins, meanwhile, have increased to an average of 6.84 percent so far this year, compared with 5.87 percent during 2011.
Adjusted net profit margins were at a 10-year high average of about 6.5 percent in 2011, compared with nearly 5 percent in 2010.
Even more relevant they registered average five year pre-tax margins of 10.1 percent and net profit margins of 6.4 percent.
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The sales growth is slightly lower than the 10.2 percent average annual growth for statements filed in the six months ended January 2012, but net profit margin is better than the 4.6 percent margin among statements in that period.
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Net profit margins are about 6 to 7 percent, compared with around 4 percent on average in 2009, Sageworks data shows.
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