Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's gross profit for the
three
months ended in Oct. 2018 was $1,885 Mil. Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's gross profit for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2018 was $7,448 Mil.
* 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.
Competitive Comparison of Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Gross Profit
For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock'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.
Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Gross Profit Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Gross Profit distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Gross Profit falls into.
Gross Profit for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $7,448 Mil.
Gross Profit is the numerator in the calculation of Gross Margin.
* 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.
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
Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock had a gross margin of 85.68% for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2018 => Durable competitive advantage
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Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock (Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock) Business Description
Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock was incorporated in the state of Delaware on January 31, 2013 under the name of Denali Holding Inc. It changed its name to Dell Technologies Inc. on August 25, 2016. On September 7, 2016, a merger subsidiary of Dell Technologies merged with and into EMC Corporation, with EMC Corporation surviving the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell Technologies. The company has issued a tracking stock to track the performance of a portion of Dell Technologies' economic interest in the VMware business. It is an information technology company. The company offers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions, which enable organizations to manage IT resources across complex multi-cloud, multi-device environments.
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