Diplomat Pharmacy (Diplomat Pharmacy) Gross Profit : $309 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2019)

Diplomat Pharmacy Gross Profit Chart

Diplomat Pharmacy Quarterly Data
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Gross Profit	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															93.36	93.86	79.22	72.73	63.39

Competitive Comparison of Diplomat Pharmacy's Gross Profit

For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, Diplomat Pharmacy'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.

Diplomat Pharmacy's Gross Profit Distribution in the Drug Manufacturers Industry

For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, Diplomat Pharmacy's Gross Profit distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Diplomat Pharmacy's Gross Profit falls into.

Diplomat Pharmacy Gross Profit Calculation

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

Diplomat Pharmacy's Gross Profit for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2018 is calculated as

Diplomat Pharmacy's Gross Profit for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 is calculated as

Gross Profit for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $309 Mil.

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

Diplomat Pharmacy's Gross Margin % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 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.

Diplomat Pharmacy  (NYSE:DPLO) 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

Diplomat Pharmacy had a gross margin of 4.87% for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 => No sustainable competitive advantage

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