margin vs net income

net income vs margin

margin and net income both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
margin	Yes	No	No	No
net income	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, net income is a hypernym of margin; that is, net income is a word with a broader meaning than margin:

margin: (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
net income: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Other hypernyms of margin include earnings, lucre, net, net profit, profit, profits.

margin (noun)	net income (noun)
an amount beyond the minimum necessary	the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
the blank space that surrounds the text on a page
the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities
(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

Difference between margin and net income

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