Ranked from the filings of the
companies this site has read, under
.
50 of them report a figure for this; the rest are absent rather than
ranked last, because a filing that does not carry a number is not a company that scores
badly on it.
Gross profit is revenue minus the direct cost of delivering the product (cost of goods sold), before any overhead, marketing or research. It is what is left to pay for everything else, and it varies more by industry than any other measure here.
the cost of delivering the product, before running the company. Varies more by industry than anything else here, so it compares software with software rather than with a contractor
It is not advice, and a high place is not a recommendation. A company can lead on one
measure and fail on every other; that is the reason this site scores five dimensions
rather than one and lets you weigh them yourself.
It also ranks only what has been read. A company whose filings are not in this database
cannot appear here however well it would have done, and a company whose filing does not
tag this figure is absent rather than last.