Businesses produce revenues through selling their goods and services to interested customers. To acquire the products intended for sale, businesses must either manufacture or purchase them from their ...

Businesses that sell goods need to implement effective inventory control to keep track of assets. Businesses use two primary methods to calculate the ending inventory value: the gross profit or the ...

Brian Beers is a digital editor, writer, Emmy-nominated producer, and content expert with 15+ years of experience writing about corporate finance & accounting, fundamental analysis, and investing.

Toy maker Hasbro and other consumer stocks have lofty gross profit margins. So, unsurprisingly, do many big tech firms.

Both metrics assess a company's profitability, but in different ways Claire Boyte-White is the lead writer for NapkinFinance.com, co-author of I Am Net Worthy, and an Investopedia contributor.