CUSI (Cuisine Solutions) Gross Profit : $16.45 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2009)

Cuisine Solutions Gross Profit Chart

Cuisine Solutions Annual Data
	Trend	Jun99	Jun00	Jun01	Jun02	Jun03	Jun04	Jun05	Jun06	Jun07	Jun08
Gross Profit		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					7.73	11.37	16.11	18.22	18.06

Cuisine Solutions Quarterly Data
	Jun04	Sep04	Dec04	Mar05	Jun05	Sep05	Dec05	Mar06	Jun06	Sep06	Dec06	Mar07	Jun07	Sep07	Dec07	Mar08	Jun08	Sep08	Dec08	Mar09
Gross Profit	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															4.95	4.76	3.96	3.84	3.88

Competitive Comparison of Cuisine Solutions's Gross Profit

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Cuisine Solutions'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.

Cuisine Solutions's Gross Profit Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Cuisine Solutions's Gross Profit distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Cuisine Solutions's Gross Profit falls into.

Cuisine Solutions Gross Profit Calculation

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

Cuisine Solutions's Gross Profit for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2008 is calculated as

Cuisine Solutions's Gross Profit for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2009 is calculated as

Gross Profit for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2009 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $16.45 Mil.

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

Cuisine Solutions's Gross Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2009 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.

Cuisine Solutions  (OTCPK:CUSI) 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

Cuisine Solutions had a gross margin of 18.14% for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2009 => No sustainable competitive advantage

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