David Jones (ASX:DJS) Gross Profit : A$746 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2014)

David Jones Gross Profit Chart

David Jones Annual Data
	Trend	Jul04	Jul05	Jul06	Jul07	Jul08	Jul09	Jul10	Jul11	Jul12	Jul13
Gross Profit		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					786.15	819.30	770.85	699.86	697.04

David Jones Semi-Annual Data
	Jul04	Jan05	Jul05	Jan06	Jul06	Jan07	Jul07	Jan08	Jul08	Jan09	Jul09	Jan10	Jul10	Jan11	Jul11	Jan12	Jul12	Jan13	Jul13	Jan14
Gross Profit	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															382.81	317.05	391.08	305.97	439.98

Competitive Comparison of David Jones's Gross Profit

For the Department Stores subindustry, David Jones's Gross Profit, along with its competitors' market caps and Gross Profit data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

David Jones's Gross Profit Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, David Jones's Gross Profit distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where David Jones's Gross Profit falls into.

David Jones Gross Profit Calculation

Gross Profit is the different between the sale prices and the cost of buying or producing the goods.

David Jones's Gross Profit for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2013 is calculated as

David Jones's Gross Profit for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2014 is calculated as

Gross Profit for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2014 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was A$746 Mil.

Gross Profit is the numerator in the calculation of Gross Margin.

David Jones's Gross Margin % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2014 is calculated as

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

A positive Gross Profit is only the first step for a company to make a net profit. The gross profit needs to be big enough to also cover related labor, equipment, rental, marketing/advertising, research and development and a lot of other costs in selling the products.

David Jones  (ASX:DJS) Gross Profit Explanation

Warren Buffett believes that firms with excellent long term economics tend to have consistently higher margins.

Durable competitive advantage creates a high Gross Margin % because of the freedom to price in excess of cost. Companies can be categorized by their Gross Margin %

1. Greater than 40% = Durable competitive advantage
2. Less than 40% = Competition eroding margins
3. Less than 20% = no sustainable competitive advantage
Consistency of Gross Margin is key

David Jones had a gross margin of 41.55% for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2014 => Durable competitive advantage

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