Avitar (Avitar) COGS-to-Revenue : 0.87 (As of Dec. 2007)

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What is Avitar COGS-to-Revenue?

Avitar's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Dec. 2007 was $0.44 Mil. Its Revenue for the three months ended in Dec. 2007 was $0.51 Mil.

Avitar's COGS to Revenue for the three months ended in Dec. 2007 was 0.87.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. Avitar's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Dec. 2007 was 13.27%.

Avitar COGS-to-Revenue Historical Data

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

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Avitar COGS-to-Revenue Chart

Avitar Annual Data

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COGS-to-Revenue

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0.75

0.67

0.71

0.70

0.73

Avitar Quarterly Data
	Mar03	Jun03	Sep03	Dec03	Mar04	Jun04	Sep04	Dec04	Mar05	Jun05	Sep05	Dec05	Mar06	Jun06	Sep06	Dec06	Mar07	Jun07	Sep07	Dec07
COGS-to-Revenue	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.70	0.81	0.72	0.70	0.87

Avitar COGS-to-Revenue Calculation

Avitar's COGS to Revenue for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2007 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	2.269	/	3.106
	=	0.73

Avitar's COGS to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2007 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	0.438	/	0.505
	=	0.87

Avitar (OTCPK:AVTI) COGS-to-Revenue Explanation

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

Avitar's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Dec. 2007 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	1	-	COGS to Revenue
	=	1	-	Cost of Goods Sold / Revenue
	=	1	-	0.438 / 0.505
	=	13.27 %

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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Avitar Inc, through its subsidiary Avitar Technologies, develops, manufactures, and markets products for oral fluid diagnostics, disease and clinical testing, and wound treating.