Gross profit
Gross profit is what is left of revenue after the direct cost of producing what was sold, and before everything else the company spends.
How it is computed here
| Formula | revenue − cost of revenue |
|---|---|
| Unit | Currency amount |
| Period | One fiscal year, as reported |
| Source | Extracted from SEC filings; every value on an asset page carries the accounting tag and the filing it came from |
| Identifier | lucro_bruto |
What goes into the formula
| Revenue | The top line, net of collected sales taxes where the filing still includes them. |
|---|---|
| Cost of revenue | The direct cost of what was sold, as filed. |
A formula without its inputs explained is decoration. Where an input is missing from a filing, the metric is left empty here rather than completed with a zero or an estimate.
How to calculate gross profit, step by step
A manufacturer's fiscal year.
| Revenue | $4,000M |
|---|---|
| Cost of revenue | $2,600M |
- Gross profit = 4,000 − 2,600 = $1,400M.
- As a share of revenue: 1,400 ÷ 4,000 = 35.0% — that share is the gross margin.
Result: $1,400M, or a 35.0% gross margin
$1,400M is what the company had available to pay for its salespeople, its head office, its interest and its tax — and to keep.
The figures in this example are illustrative and rounded — they are not a real company. The real figures on this site are the live ones below and on every asset page, each carrying the filing it came from.
What gross profit is good for
Gross profit is the money the business actually has to work with. Two companies with the same revenue and different gross profit are not competing on the same terms, and no amount of cost discipline further down closes a gap that opens here. It is also this site's arithmetic check on the income statement: where the company reports all three of revenue, cost and gross profit, the three have to agree, and a page says so.
What this number does not tell you
Gross profit inherits every ambiguity of cost of revenue: if a competitor classifies distribution differently, the comparison is broken before it starts. Many financial companies do not report the line at all, and here the field is left empty rather than derived — an empty field is a fact about the filing, a derived one would be a guess about it.
Every metric on this site is published with its blind spot stated. A figure without its limit is half a fact.
Highest reported gross profit
| MSFTMICROSOFT CORPORATION | $225.5B |
|---|---|
| AAPLApple Inc. | $195.2B |
| NVDANVIDIA CORP | $153.5B |
| JNJJohnson & Johnson | $63.9B |
| HDHOME DEPOT, INC. | $54.9B |
| PEPPepsiCo, Inc. | $50.9B |
| AZNASTRAZENECA PLC | $48.1B |
| PBR-APETROBRAS - PETROLEO BRASILEIRO SA | $46.0B |
From the most recent fiscal year of each company. Only companies reporting in US dollars are ranked here — a figure in yen or won is not larger, it is in another currency.
See it in a published filing
These pages show the figure across up to nineteen fiscal years, with the accounting tag and the filing behind every value.