Bowlin Travel Centers (Bowlin Travel Centers) Gross Profit : $8.69 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2011)

Bowlin Travel Centers Gross Profit Chart

Bowlin Travel Centers Annual Data
	Trend	Jan02	Jan03	Jan04	Jan05	Jan06	Jan07	Jan08	Jan09	Jan10	Jan11
Gross Profit		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					8.84	8.51	7.35	8.06	8.69

Bowlin Travel Centers Semi-Annual Data
	Jan00	Jan01	Jan02	Jan03	Jan04	Jan05	Jan06	Jan07	Jan08	Jan09	Jan10	Jan11
Gross Profit	Get a 7-Day Free Trial							8.84	8.51	7.35	8.06	8.69

Competitive Comparison of Bowlin Travel Centers's Gross Profit

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Bowlin Travel Centers'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.

Bowlin Travel Centers's Gross Profit Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Bowlin Travel Centers's Gross Profit falls into.

Bowlin Travel Centers Gross Profit Calculation

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

Bowlin Travel Centers's Gross Profit for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2011 is calculated as

Bowlin Travel Centers's Gross Profit for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2011 is calculated as

For stock reported annually, GuruFocus uses latest annual data as the TTM data. Gross Profit for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2011 was $8.69 Mil.

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

Bowlin Travel Centers's Gross Margin % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2011 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.

Bowlin Travel Centers  (OTCPK:BWTL) 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

Bowlin Travel Centers had a gross margin of 33.32% for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2011 => Competition eroding margins

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