gross profit

American  

noun

1. gross receipts less the cost of goods or production but before the deduction of such other costs as rent or salaries.

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gross profit British  

noun

1. accounting the difference between total revenue from sales and the total cost of purchases or materials, with an adjustment for stock

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• gross income vs. gross profit

Example Sentences

Revenues, at $29.1 million, looked fine—Wall Street was looking for $28.6 million—but gross profit margins were a little weaker than expected.

From Barron's

Licensing intellectual property is a super profitable business that allows Arm to command gross profit margins of 97% now.

From The Wall Street Journal

In this view, software companies that charge by the human user will see sales slump, and they may be forced to abandon the subscription model, which typically sees a gross profit margin of around 80%.

From Barron's

The gross profit per dollar of revenue that Micron expects for its current quarter, thanks to booming AI-driven sales of its memory chips.

From The Wall Street Journal

That has also resulted in a weak bottom line; Super Micro’s gross profit margins hit a record low of 6.3% in the latest quarter, despite booming sales in the period.

From The Wall Street Journal

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