Advant-e (Advant-e) COGS-to-Revenue : 0.38 (As of Dec. 2012)

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What is Advant-e COGS-to-Revenue?

Advant-e's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Dec. 2012 was $0.95 Mil. Its Revenue for the three months ended in Dec. 2012 was $2.52 Mil.

Advant-e's COGS to Revenue for the three months ended in Dec. 2012 was 0.38.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. Advant-e's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Dec. 2012 was 62.11%.

Advant-e COGS-to-Revenue Historical Data

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

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Advant-e COGS-to-Revenue Chart

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0.39

0.41

0.39

Advant-e Quarterly Data
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COGS-to-Revenue	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.37	0.42	0.39	0.39	0.38

Advant-e COGS-to-Revenue Calculation

Advant-e's COGS to Revenue for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2012 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	3.96	/	10.106
	=	0.39

Advant-e's COGS to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2012 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	0.954	/	2.518
	=	0.38

Advant-e (OTCPK:ADVCD) COGS-to-Revenue Explanation

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

Advant-e's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Dec. 2012 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	1	-	COGS to Revenue
	=	1	-	Cost of Goods Sold / Revenue
	=	1	-	0.954 / 2.518
	=	62.11 %

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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2434 Esquire Drive, Beavercreek, OH, USA, 45431

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Advant-e Corp is a United States based company engaged in the development, marketing, reselling and hosting software and provides services, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries. The services allow the customers to send and receive business documents in standard and proprietary formats. The group specializes in providing hosted electronic data interchange solutions that utilize the internet as the primary communications method.

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