Kansas City Southern (LTS:0JQ4) COGS-to-Revenue : 0.61 (As of Sep. 2021)

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What is Kansas City Southern COGS-to-Revenue?

Kansas City Southern's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Sep. 2021 was $456 Mil. Its Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2021 was $744 Mil.

Kansas City Southern's COGS to Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2021 was 0.61.

Cost of Goods Sold is directly linked to profitability of the company through Gross Margin. Kansas City Southern's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Sep. 2021 was 38.76%.

Kansas City Southern COGS-to-Revenue Historical Data

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

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Kansas City Southern COGS-to-Revenue Chart

Kansas City Southern Annual Data

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0.66

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0.63

0.61

Kansas City Southern Quarterly Data
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Kansas City Southern COGS-to-Revenue Calculation

Kansas City Southern's COGS to Revenue for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2020 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	1599	/	2632.6
	=	0.61

Kansas City Southern's COGS to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2021 is calculated as

COGS to Revenue	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Revenue
	=	455.6	/	744
	=	0.61

Kansas City Southern (LTS:0JQ4) COGS-to-Revenue Explanation

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

Kansas City Southern's Gross Margin % for the three months ended in Sep. 2021 is calculated as:

Gross Margin %	=	1	-	COGS to Revenue
	=	1	-	Cost of Goods Sold / Revenue
	=	1	-	455.6 / 744
	=	38.76 %

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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Kansas City Southern (LTS:0JQ4) Business Description

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427 West 12th Street, Kansas City, MO, USA, 64105

Website

https://www.kcsouthern.com

Kansas City Southern, the smallest Class I railroad, derives about half of its $2.6 billion revenue on 3,400 miles of track in the Central and Southern United States. Remaining sales are produced by operating concessions on 3,300 miles of rail in Mexico and 47 miles of track adjacent to the Panama Canal. KCS' freight includes industrial and forest products (around 21% of total revenue), chemicals and petroleum (26%), agriculture and minerals (18%), intermodal (13%), energy (9%), and autos (9%); other revenue stems from switching, demurrage, and the like.

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