Alcatel-Lucent (Alcatel-Lucent) Cost of Goods Sold : $6,865 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2016)

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What is Alcatel-Lucent Cost of Goods Sold?

Alcatel-Lucent's cost of goods sold for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $1,597 Mil. Its cost of goods sold for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 was $6,865 Mil.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. Alcatel-Lucent's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was 26.56%.

Cost of Goods Sold is also directly linked to Inventory Turnover. Alcatel-Lucent's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was 0.91.

Alcatel-Lucent Cost of Goods Sold Historical Data

The historical data trend for Alcatel-Lucent's Cost of Goods Sold can be seen below:

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13,114.47

13,253.28

13,415.07

10,813.81

9,947.71

Alcatel-Lucent Quarterly Data
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Cost of Goods Sold	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															2,290.04	2,523.01	2,521.89	2,746.19	1,596.63

Alcatel-Lucent Cost of Goods Sold Calculation

Cost of Goods Sold is the aggregate cost of goods produced and sold, and services rendered during the reporting period. It excludes Total Operating Expense, such as Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense.

Cost of Goods Sold for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $6,865 Mil.

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) Cost of Goods Sold Explanation

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin.

Alcatel-Lucent's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	(Revenue	-	Cost of Goods Sold)	/	Revenue
	=	(2174.157	-	1596.629)	/	2174.157
	=	26.56 %

A company that has a moat can usually maintain or even expand their Gross Margin. A company can increase its Gross Margin in two ways. It can increase the prices of the goods it sells and keeps its Cost of Goods Sold unchanged. Or it can keep the sales price unchanged and squeeze its suppliers to reduce the Cost of Goods Sold. Warren Buffett believes businesses with the power to raise prices have moats.

Cost of Goods Sold is also directly linked to another concept called Inventory Turnover:

Alcatel-Lucent's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 is calculated as:

Inventory Turnover	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Average Total Inventories
	=	1596.629	/	1752.3585
	=	0.91

Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year. A higher inventory turnover means the company has light inventory. Therefore the company spends less money on storage, write downs, and obsolete inventory. If the inventory is too light, it may affect sales because the company may not have enough to meet demand.

Usually retailers pile up their inventories at holiday seasons to meet the stronger demand. Therefore, the inventory of a particular quarter of a year should not be used to calculate inventory turnover. An average inventory is a better indication.

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Alcatel-Lucent SA was incorporated on June 18, 1898. The Company is engaged in designing, manufacturing, operations and sales of equipment, material and software related to domestic, industrial, civil, military or other applications concerning electricity, telecommunications, computers, electronics, aerospace industry, nuclear energy, metallurgy, and, in general, of all the means of production or transmission of energy or communication. The Company's core Networking segment includes three business divisions: IP Routing, IP Transport and IP Platforms. The IP ROUTING focus is on the intelligent IP router market and emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) markets and related professional services. In IP TRANSPORT segment company designs, manufactures and markets optical networking equipment to transport information over fiber optic connections over long distances on land or under sea, as well as for short distances in metropolitan and regional areas. The portfolio also includes related professional services and microwave wireless transmission equipment. In IP PLATFORMS, the Company offers software and services to service providers that allow them to meet the market evolution needs of mobile and fixed networks. The Company's access segment includes four business divisions: WIRELESS are committed to a wireless access portfolio that is suited to the operators that are moving to 4G/LTE quickly and decisively. FIXED ACCESS IP-based fixed access products and related professional services provides support for both DSL and fiber, allowing service providers to extend Ultra-Broadband access to the customer's premise regardless of technology and to seamlessly combine copper and fiber access technologies and FTTx deployment models to achieve the fastest return-on-investment and time-to-market. In LICENSING the Intellectual Property Business Group works to monetize the patent portfolio through licensing and patent sales while also maintaining and prosecuting patents. The managed services portfolio includes Build-Operate-Manage-Transfer (BOMT) Solutions, Operations Transformation Solutions, and Network Operations Services. These services can be delivered across a wide array of network technologies including Network Access (FTTx), Next generation wireless (LTE, Small Cells, 4G), and IP Networks. The Company's Other segment includes Enterprise and Government businesses to provide end-to-end products, solutions and services for small, medium, large and extra-large companies to improve conversations and collaboration across employees, customers and partners. The Company sells all of its products and services to the world's telecommunications service providers through its direct sales force. The Company's competitors include Avaya, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN), Samsung, Adtran, Calix, Ciena, Juniper, Ericsson and Huawei.