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Margins
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- Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) The direct costs of producing the goods or services a company sold in a period, subtracted from revenue to get gross profit.
- Economic moats: what protects a company’s profits, and how to test it The five sources of an economic moat, how a moat shows up in margins and returns on capital, what can erode one, and how to test a moat claim using Apple’s 10-K.
- Income statement: how to read one line by line, with Apple Read an income statement from net sales to diluted EPS, using Apple’s fiscal 2025 numbers: margins at every level, taxes, common-size analysis and three-year trends.
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