Lonrho (FRA:LOY) Cost of Goods Sold : €181.6 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2012)

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What is Lonrho Cost of Goods Sold?

Lonrho's cost of goods sold for the six months ended in Dec. 2012 was €68.3 Mil. Its cost of goods sold for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2012 was €181.6 Mil.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. Lonrho's Gross Margin % for the six months ended in Dec. 2012 was 33.61%.

Cost of Goods Sold is also directly linked to Inventory Turnover. Lonrho's Inventory Turnover for the six months ended in Dec. 2012 was 2.48.

Lonrho Cost of Goods Sold Historical Data

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

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Lonrho Cost of Goods Sold Chart

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Cost of Goods Sold

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19.56

81.47

-93.08

119.83

180.84

Lonrho Semi-Annual Data
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Cost of Goods Sold	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-135.10	53.45	66.62	113.29	68.32

Lonrho 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 Dec. 2012 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €181.6 Mil.

Lonrho (FRA:LOY) Cost of Goods Sold Explanation

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

Lonrho's Gross Margin % for the six months ended in Dec. 2012 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	(Revenue	-	Cost of Goods Sold)	/	Revenue
	=	(102.913	-	68.321)	/	102.913
	=	33.61 %

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:

Lonrho's Inventory Turnover for the six months ended in Dec. 2012 is calculated as:

Inventory Turnover	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Average Total Inventories
	=	68.321	/	27.543
	=	2.48

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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Lonrho (FRA:LOY) Business Description

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Website

http://www.lonrho.com

Lonrho PLC is engaged in providing the infrastructure and services required for the growing oil, mineral and agricultural sectors in Africa. The Company has a diverse portfolio of investments across Sub-Saharan Africa in four core operating sectors: Agribusiness, Infrastructure, Hotels and Support Services. Agribusiness vertically integrates the production, sourcing, logistics, processing and distribution of agricultural products from Sub-Saharan Africa to the consumer. The division supplies to its retailers in Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, the USA, Middle East, Scandinavia and the Far East. The division also distributes agricultural and heavy machinery. Infrastructure division develops and manages oil logistics terminals. Luba Freeport, the oil service terminal in the Gulf of Guinea, has attracted oil service companies to be long term tenants at the port to service oï¬€shore exploration and production rigs. The Company's Hotel division includes hotels centred on the commercial, conference and business related markets across the Continent. It owns or manages hotels in Lubumbashi and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Maputo in Mozambique, Gaborone in Botswana and Mutare in Zimbabwe. IT business is a full systems integrator and manager that designs, builds, develops and integrates IT solutions for large corporate clients, banks and governments and then undertakes management contracts to run and manage installations. The IT division is a distributor for Cisco, Microsoft, Dell and Hewlett Packard systems and equipment.

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