United Microelectronics (United Microelectronics) Cost of Goods Sold

: $4,646 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)

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United Microelectronics's cost of goods sold for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,189 Mil. Its cost of goods sold for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $4,646 Mil.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. United Microelectronics's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was 32.4%.

Cost of Goods Sold is also directly linked to Inventory Turnover. United Microelectronics's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.04.

United Microelectronics Cost of Goods Sold Historical Data

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

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United Microelectronics Annual Data

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Dec23

Cost of Goods Sold

4,193.35

4,886.87

5,080.04

4,989.52

4,633.03

United Microelectronics Quarterly Data
	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23
Cost of Goods Sold																1,262.93	1,145.73	1,168.73	1,142.44	1,188.81

United Microelectronics 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. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $4,646 Mil.

United Microelectronics (NYSE:UMC) Cost of Goods Sold Explanation

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

United Microelectronics's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	(Revenue	-	Cost of Goods Sold)	/	Revenue
	=	(1758.58	-	1188.806)	/	1758.58
	=	32.4 %

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:

United Microelectronics's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as:

Inventory Turnover	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Average Total Inventories
	=	1188.806	/	1141.857
	=	1.04

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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2303:Taiwan UMC:Mexico UMCB:Germany

Address

No. 3, Li-Hsin 2nd Road, Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, TWN

Website

https://www.umc.com

Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with 7% market share in 2022 after TSMC and GlobalFoundries. UMC's headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and it operates 12 fabs in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and Singapore, with additional sales offices in Europe, the U.S. and South Korea. UMC features a diverse customer base including Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 20,000 people.