Shire (SHPG) COGS-to-Revenue : 0.30 (As of Sep. 2018)

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What is Shire COGS-to-Revenue?

Shire's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Sep. 2018 was $1,158 Mil. Its Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2018 was $3,872 Mil.

Shire's COGS to Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2018 was 0.30.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. Shire's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Sep. 2018 was 70.10%.

Shire COGS-to-Revenue Historical Data

The historical data trend for Shire's COGS-to-Revenue can be seen below:

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Shire COGS-to-Revenue Chart

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0.14

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0.33

0.31

Shire Quarterly Data
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COGS-to-Revenue	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.27	0.30	0.30	0.28	0.30

Shire COGS-to-Revenue Calculation

Shire's COGS to Revenue for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2017 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	4700.8	/	15160.6
	=	0.31

Shire's COGS to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	1157.6	/	3871.7
	=	0.30

Shire (NAS:SHPG) COGS-to-Revenue Explanation

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

Shire's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Sep. 2018 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	1	-	COGS to Revenue
	=	1	-	Cost of Goods Sold / Revenue
	=	1	-	1157.6 / 3871.7
	=	70.10 %

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.

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Shire (SHPG) Business Description

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Shire is a diversified, Ireland-based specialty drug firm. Shire has grown primarily through mergers and acquisitions, including the Transkaryotic Therapies acquisition in 2005, which established its genetic disease business with Replagal and Elaprase, and the merger with New River in 2007, which brought full rights to neuroscience drug Vyvanse. Shire completed the acquisition of ViroPharma (genetic diseases) in 2014, NPS Pharma (internal medicine) in 2015, and Baxalta (hematology, immunology, and oncology) and Dyax (genetic diseases) in 2016.

Executives

James H Cavanaugh

director

265 HOTHORPE LANE, VILLANOVA PA 19085