* 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 Brookfield Office Properties's Gross Profit
For the Real Estate Services subindustry, Brookfield Office Properties'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.
Brookfield Office Properties's Gross Profit Distribution in the Real Estate Industry
For the Real Estate industry and Real Estate sector, Brookfield Office Properties's Gross Profit distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Brookfield Office Properties's Gross Profit falls into.
Gross Profit for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$1,521.74 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
Brookfield Office Properties had a gross margin of 54.94% for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 => Durable competitive advantage
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Brookfield Office Properties (TSX:BPO.PR.P.PFD) Business Description
Brookfield Office Properties Inc is a real estate investment firm. It acts as owner, operator, and developer of office and multifamily assets. The office property division defines the skylines of dynamic cities around the world, including gateway cities such as New York, London, Berlin, Toronto, and Sydney and the multifamily business owns, develops, renovates and manages approximately 40,000 high-quality rental apartment buildings in supply constrained markets of major cities such as New York and London, as well as high growth markets in the suburban U.S. In addition, it caters to tenants in financial services, government, and energy and resource sectors.
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