Where does your company stand in the x axis? (parte II)

Parte I.

Let us consider the example of a company with annual sales of 6 000 000 euros.
Let us consider that variable costs are 60% of price.
Let us consider that fixed costs are 1 500 000 euros.
So, that company has a net profit of 900 000 euros.

What happens when that company decides to increase price in order to improve net profit?
What happens to market share?

In the following table you can see how much the market share can decrease in order to just keep the same net profit.

For a 60% variable costs scenario: if you increase your price 10% you can lose 20% market share and still earn the same net profit.

For a 40% variable costs scenario: if you increase your price 10% you can lose 14% market share and still earn the same net profit.

In the following graphic you can see the same relationship but for different variable costs weights:

Do you know where does your company stand in the x axis?

Beware of market share delusion. Volume is vanity profit is sanity.

We are not inviting you to start increasing prices out of thin air without any justification. We are reinforcing the message: beware of market share delusion.