Alliance Fiber Optic Products (Alliance Fiber Optic Products) COGS-to-Revenue : 0.70 (As of Mar. 2016)

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What is Alliance Fiber Optic Products COGS-to-Revenue?

Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Mar. 2016 was $8.78 Mil. Its Revenue for the three months ended in Mar. 2016 was $12.49 Mil.

Alliance Fiber Optic Products's COGS to Revenue for the three months ended in Mar. 2016 was 0.70.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Mar. 2016 was 29.65%.

Alliance Fiber Optic Products COGS-to-Revenue Historical Data

The historical data trend for Alliance Fiber Optic Products's COGS-to-Revenue can be seen below:

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Alliance Fiber Optic Products COGS-to-Revenue Chart

Alliance Fiber Optic Products Annual Data

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0.68

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0.62

0.60

0.59

Alliance Fiber Optic Products Quarterly Data
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COGS-to-Revenue	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.59	0.58	0.61	0.59	0.70

Alliance Fiber Optic Products COGS-to-Revenue Calculation

Alliance Fiber Optic Products's COGS to Revenue for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	48.154	/	81.189
	=	0.59

Alliance Fiber Optic Products's COGS to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	8.783	/	12.485
	=	0.70

Alliance Fiber Optic Products (NAS:AFOP) COGS-to-Revenue Explanation

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

Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Mar. 2016 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	1	-	COGS to Revenue
	=	1	-	Cost of Goods Sold / Revenue
	=	1	-	8.783 / 12.485
	=	29.65 %

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.

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Alliance Fiber Optic Products (Alliance Fiber Optic Products) Business Description

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Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc was incorporated in California on December 12, 1995. The Company designs, manufactures and markets fiber optic components and integrated modules incorporating these components, for communications equipment manufacturers and service providers. The Company products including interconnect devices that are used to connect optical fibers and components, couplers and splitters that are used to divide and combine optical power, and dense wavelength division multiplexing, or DWDM, devices that separate and combine multiple specific wavelengths. Its lines of optical products support the needs of current and next generation optical network systems applications. Its connectivity product family provides a comprehensive line of optical interconnect devices, couplers and splitters, PLC (planar lightwave circuits) and related optical products, as well as customized integrated modules incorporating these devices. Its optical passive products include WDM, CWDM and DWDM components and modules that utilize thin film filter technologies to separate optical signals, variable attenuators, optical switches and other optical devices utilizing micro optic lensing technology including integrated electro-optical modules incorporating these products. It sells its products to communications equipment manufacturers in the United States and also maintain a sales support staff in Taiwan to service customers based in the Asia Pacific region. The Companys main competitors in the components market include JDS Uniphase Corp., Oclaro Inc., Oplink Communications, Inc., Senko Advanced Components and TE Connectivity.

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