API Group (LSE:APIA) Gross Profit : £26.48 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2014)

API Group Gross Profit Chart

API Group Annual Data
	Trend	Sep04	Sep05	Sep06	Mar08	Mar09	Mar10	Mar11	Mar12	Mar13	Mar14
Gross Profit		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					18.65	23.58	26.79	28.25	28.10

API Group Semi-Annual Data
	Sep04	Mar05	Sep05	Mar06	Sep06	Mar07	Sep07	Sep08	Mar09	Sep09	Mar10	Sep10	Mar11	Sep11	Mar12	Sep12	Mar13	Sep13	Mar14	Sep14
Gross Profit	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															15.06	13.19	14.28	13.82	12.66

Competitive Comparison of API Group's Gross Profit

For the Packaging & Containers subindustry, API Group'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.

API Group's Gross Profit Distribution in the Packaging & Containers Industry

For the Packaging & Containers industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, API Group's Gross Profit distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where API Group's Gross Profit falls into.

API Group Gross Profit Calculation

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

API Group's Gross Profit for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2014 is calculated as

API Group's Gross Profit for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as

Gross Profit for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £26.48 Mil.

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

API Group's Gross Margin % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 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.

API Group  (LSE:APIA) 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

API Group had a gross margin of 22.46% for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 => Competition eroding margins

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