SolarCity (SolarCity) Cost of Goods Sold : $439.6 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2016)

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What is SolarCity Cost of Goods Sold?

SolarCity's cost of goods sold for the three months ended in Sep. 2016 was $129.0 Mil. Its cost of goods sold for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2016 was $439.6 Mil.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. SolarCity's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Sep. 2016 was 35.7%.

Cost of Goods Sold is also directly linked to Inventory Turnover. SolarCity's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Sep. 2016 was 0.59.

SolarCity Cost of Goods Sold Historical Data

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

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SolarCity Cost of Goods Sold Chart

SolarCity Annual Data

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47.14

99.45

124.47

176.43

280.79

SolarCity Quarterly Data
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Cost of Goods Sold	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															88.57	87.02	109.15	114.50	128.96

SolarCity 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 Sep. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $439.6 Mil.

SolarCity (NAS:SCTY) Cost of Goods Sold Explanation

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

SolarCity's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Sep. 2016 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	(Revenue	-	Cost of Goods Sold)	/	Revenue
	=	(200.551	-	128.959)	/	200.551
	=	35.7 %

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:

SolarCity's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Sep. 2016 is calculated as:

Inventory Turnover	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Average Total Inventories
	=	128.959	/	217.952
	=	0.59

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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SolarCity (SolarCity) Business Description

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SolarCity Corp was incorporated as a Delaware corporation on June 21, 2006. The Company is engaged in the design, manufacture, installation and sale or lease of solar energy systems to residential and commercial customers, or sale of electricity generated by solar energy systems to customers. Its customers include residential, commercial and government. The residential customers are individual homeowners who want to switch to cleaner, more affordable energy. Residential customers also include homeowners within communities developed by home builders the company is partnered with. The Commercial customers represent diverse business sectors, including technology, retail, manufacturing, agriculture and nonprofits, including customers such as Walmart, eBay, HP, Walgreens, Intel, and Safeway, Mexican businesses such as Tiendas Soriana, and thousands of other businesses across the United States, including SMBs. For government the company has installed solar energy systems for various federal, state and municipal government entities, including the U.S. Air Force, Army, Marines and Navy, the City of Lancaster, the City of San Jose, the City of Sacramento, the Department of Homeland Security and a number of schools and universities. The Company market and sell its products and services through a national sales organization that includes a direct outside sales force, a door-to-door sales force, call centers, a channel partner network and a robust customer referral program. It purchases components such as solar panels and inverters directly from multiple manufacturers. The Company's competitors include Vivint Solar Inc., Sunrun Inc., NRG Home Solar, Sungevity, Inc., Trinity Solar, Verengo, Inc., SunPower Corporation, SunEdison LLC, Borrego Solar Systems, Inc., G&S Solar Installers, Cenergy Power and numerous other companies. The Company's operations are subject to stringent and complex federal, state and local laws and regulations governing the occupational health and safety of its employees, wage regulations and environmental regulations.

Executives

Draper Associates L P	10 percent owner	55 EAST 3RD AVENUE, SAN MATEO CA 94401
Draper Associates Riskmasters Fund, Llc	10 percent owner	2882 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 150, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Antonio J. Gracias	director	C/O VALOR EQUITY PARTNERS, 200 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, SUITE 1020, CHICAGO IL 60604
Elon Musk	director, 10 percent owner	C/O TESLA MOTORS, INC., 3500 DEER CREEK ROAD, PALO ALTO CA 94304
Stephen T Jurvetson	10 percent owner	2882 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 150, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Jeffrey B Straubel	director	C/O TESLA MOTORS, INC., 3500 DEER CREEK ROAD, PALO ALTO CA 94304
Timothy C Draper	10 percent owner	55 EAST 3RD AVENUE, SAN MATEO CA 94401
Fisher John H N	director	2882 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 150, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Draper Fisher Jurvetion Partners Growth Fund 2006 Llc	10 percent owner	2882 SAND HILL RD SUITE 150, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund Ix Lp	10 percent owner	PO Box 265GT Walker House Mary St, Georgetown Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands E9 00000
Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund 2006 Lp	10 percent owner	2882 SAND HILL RD STE 150, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Draper Fisher Jurvetson Partners Ix, Llc	10 percent owner	2882 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 150, MENLO PARK CA 94023
Kendall Donald R Jr	director	3055 CLEARVIEW WAY, SAN MATEO CA 94402
Brad W Buss	officer: Chief Financial Officer	198 CHAMPION COURT, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Van De Bunt Bennet	director	3340 OCEAN PARK BOULEVARD, 3RD FLOOR, SANTA MONICA CA 90405