Columnist John D. Wagner explains why gross profit margin should not rise or fall with sales and reasons that it could.

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Dave stock price has been one of the best-performing companies in Wall Street in the past few months. After crashing to a low ...

SMPL reported 15.2% revenue growth in Q2 2025, led by Quest and the recent OWYN acquisition. Click here to read my most ...

Corporate India's net profit surged in the March quarter, driven by reduced non-operating costs, while revenue growth remained moderate. Excluding banking and finance, profit growth improved ...

While these companies achieved an impressive 11% year-on-year revenue growth in Q4, up from 7.3% in the previous quarter, their net profit managed only a modest 2% increase during the same period.

Dig a layer deeper, and the story's more nuanced. Ryanair's net profit margin quietly jumped to 11.55%up from just 5% last quarterhelped by non-ticket revenue and disciplined cost controls.

On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $267.5 million was less impressive, coming in 3.8% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.08 per share was 16.5% above ...

Britannia Industries Ltd’s consolidated revenue growth of 9% year-on-year in the March quarter (Q4FY25) to ₹ 4,432 crore was primarily led by higher price realisation, given that volume growth ...

Cigna reported $1.3 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2025, bucking the ongoing cost trend that dinged other companies in the insurance industry. Its earnings performance surpassed Wall ...

For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $95.4 billion and net quarterly profit of $24.8 billion, or $1.65 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $90.8 billion and net quarterly profit of $23.6 ...

Pfizer expanded its cost-cutting efforts and reported first-quarter profit that topped estimates, even as the company's sales fell, largely due to dwindling revenue for its antiviral Covid pill ...