Profit before interest and tax

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(PBIT).

A measure of the operating profitability of a business, before taking account of the effects of either:

  1. The chosen capital structure; or
  2. Taxation.


The purpose of the PBIT measure is to facilitate comparability of underlying businesses, cleaned of any distortions caused by different capital structures or different tax positions.


See also