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by msgilligan 294 days ago
There are multiple ways of calculating market share (e.g. units vs dollars or for different time periods) but assuming it is measured in dollars for a quarterly time period, how would you calculate the market share based upon my sample data above?
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(company sales in period - company returns for sales made in said period) / (industry sales in period)
With this formula market share for past periods can keep changing arbitrarily far into the future (depending on the companies' return policies).
Yes.