Chime Communications (Chime Communications) COGS-to-Revenue : 0.44 (As of Jun. 2015)

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What is Chime Communications COGS-to-Revenue?

Chime Communications's Cost of Goods Sold for the six months ended in Jun. 2015 was $127.5 Mil. Its Revenue for the six months ended in Jun. 2015 was $287.4 Mil.

Chime Communications's COGS to Revenue for the six months ended in Jun. 2015 was 0.44.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. Chime Communications's Gross Margin % for the six months ended in Jun. 2015 was 55.63%.

Chime Communications COGS-to-Revenue Historical Data

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Chime Communications COGS-to-Revenue Chart

Chime Communications Annual Data

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COGS-to-Revenue

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0.50

0.54

0.43

0.49

Chime Communications Semi-Annual Data
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COGS-to-Revenue	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.45	0.42	0.51	0.47	0.44

Chime Communications COGS-to-Revenue Calculation

Chime Communications's COGS to Revenue for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	297.657	/	610.901
	=	0.49

Chime Communications's COGS to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	127.498	/	287.361
	=	0.44

Chime Communications (OTCPK:CICPF) COGS-to-Revenue Explanation

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

Chime Communications's Gross Margin % for the six months ended in Jun. 2015 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	1	-	COGS to Revenue
	=	1	-	Cost of Goods Sold / Revenue
	=	1	-	127.498 / 287.361
	=	55.63 %

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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Chime Communications PLC was incorporated in the United Kingdom on January 29, 1986. The Company provides advertising, sports marketing, market research, direct marketing, design and event management consultancy. Its business segments are Sport & Entertainment, Advertising and Marketing Services (AMS), Healthcare, and Insight & Engagement.Â In sport & entertainment segment CSM Sport & Entertainment works with brands, rights holders, governing bodies, governments and athletes across the globe, CSM specialises in strategic consultancy, rights sales, sponsorship activation, hospitality, branding and wayfinding, athlete management and communications across sporting events. The advertising and marketing services division includes the VCCP Partnership and the Chime Specialist Group. VCCP operates in advertising and marketing services, direct marketing, digital communication, search relations, point of sale, sales promotion, data consultancy and technical design, multimedia content, youth marketing and experiential, marketing consulting, retail and shopper marketing and specialist media planning and buying. The Specialist Group includes agencies operating in niche markets; corporate responsibility and sustainability consultancy; for technology brands; providing customer reference and advocacy and; in professional and financial services. The insight and engagement division brings together researchers, technologists and insight specialists who deliver to clients, in real time, actionable solutions. The division has particular expertise in delivering clients in FMCG, financial services, utilities and retail with experience performance improvement plans, mystery shopping programmes and advertising and brand tracking. The Insight & Engagement division includes specialist brands such as Watermelon - a specialist digital agency, Cherry Picked - a specialist recruitment agency, Facts International - a specialist fieldwork agency and full service agencies Opinion Leader and CIE. In healthcare segment OPEN Health is a healthcare communications and market access group. It comprises ten different specialist businesses that bring a breadth of expertise focused principally on pharma, health device and diagnostic clients. OPEN Health's companies cover aspects of the communications mix including advertising, PR, medical communications, market access consulting, real world data collection, market research and patient engagement programmes.

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