Country Road (ASX:CTY) Gross Profit : A$503.5 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2013)

Country Road Gross Profit Chart

Country Road Annual Data
	Trend	Jun04	Jun05	Jun06	Jun07	Jun08	Jun09	Jun10	Jun11	Jun12	Jun13
Gross Profit		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					198.19	208.05	241.14	243.58	440.69

Country Road Semi-Annual Data
	Jun04	Dec04	Jun05	Dec05	Jun06	Dec06	Jun07	Dec07	Jun08	Dec08	Jun09	Dec09	Jun10	Dec10	Jun11	Dec11	Jun12	Dec12	Jun13	Dec13
Gross Profit	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															127.80	115.78	203.67	237.02	266.44

Competitive Comparison of Country Road's Gross Profit

For the Apparel Retail subindustry, Country Road's Gross Profit, along with its competitors' market caps and Gross Profit data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Country Road's Gross Profit Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Country Road's Gross Profit distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Country Road's Gross Profit falls into.

Country Road Gross Profit Calculation

Gross Profit is the different between the sale prices and the cost of buying or producing the goods.

Country Road's Gross Profit for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2013 is calculated as

Country Road's Gross Profit for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Gross Profit for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2013 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was A$503.5 Mil.

Gross Profit is the numerator in the calculation of Gross Margin.

Country Road's Gross Margin % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

A positive Gross Profit is only the first step for a company to make a net profit. The gross profit needs to be big enough to also cover related labor, equipment, rental, marketing/advertising, research and development and a lot of other costs in selling the products.

Country Road  (ASX:CTY) Gross Profit Explanation

Warren Buffett believes that firms with excellent long term economics tend to have consistently higher margins.

Durable competitive advantage creates a high Gross Margin % because of the freedom to price in excess of cost. Companies can be categorized by their Gross Margin %

1. Greater than 40% = Durable competitive advantage
2. Less than 40% = Competition eroding margins
3. Less than 20% = no sustainable competitive advantage
Consistency of Gross Margin is key

Country Road had a gross margin of 63.09% for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 => Durable competitive advantage

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