At least since 2006, Walmart have had a stable gross profit margin. In fiscal year 2024, the retailer's global profit margin amounted to 23.7 percent. Walmart deals in a wide variety of products, such as groceries, apparel, furniture, home appliances, and electronics. Walmart, formerly known as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is one of the most well-known and valuable brands in the world. Leading retailer in the world Walmart is the largest retailer in the world. The company has discount stores, supercenters, and neighborhood markets all around the world. The company operates through three distinct business segments: Walmart U.S., Walmart International, and Sam’s Club. Walmart is far ahead of its rivals in the global fast-moving consumer goods sector, with nearly double the retail sales of its closest competitors. How do other leading retailers compare to Walmart, in terms of gross profit margin? Gross profit margin shows a company’s profitability by showing the profit left over when cost of goods sold are deducted from net sales. This figure is typically given as a percentage of sales. Costco and Kroger are two of Walmart’s leading competitors. Historically, both companies have had a lower gross margin than Walmart.

As of the first quarter of 2025, Apple’s gross profit amounted to around 58.28 percent. Gross margin is a financial metric that takes the difference between a company’s revenue and its cost of goods sold and then expresses this number as a percentage of total revenue. More simply expressed: in the first quarter of 2025 Apple sold its products with an overall markup of 58.28 percent over their total cost. The fiscal year-end of the company is September, 30th. Apple Inc. Since its now famous beginning in a California garage, Apple has grown into one of the biggest companies in the world, with its market capitalization amounting to 2.9 trillion U.S. dollars. The company brings in hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars in revenue each year and has revolutionized the consumer electronics industry time and time again with a range of massively successful product lines. Although still primarily a consumer electronics vendor, the company has also begun to branch out into a variety of service-based businesses including Apple Pay, iTunes, and iCloud storage. Apple’s sales revenue iPhone is Apple’s most famous product, but other products such as Macs and iPads also contribute to the company’s success. Furthermore, Apple is active in the software industry, with its OS X and iOS operating systems and its web-based services, such as Apple App Store, iTunes, and iCloud.

At over 50 percent, health and beauty care products had the highest gross profit margin in convenience stores in the United States in 2017. At roughly 15 percent, cigarettes had the lowest margin. Number of U.S. convenience stores 7 Eleven Inc. had over nine thousand stores in the United States in 2019, making it the company with the highest number of locations in the country. Competitor Marathon Petroleum Corp. had close to six thousand U.S. convenience stores that year. In 2018, there was a total of about 150 thousand convenience stores in the United States, a decrease of over one and a half thousand stores compared to 2017. C-store candy Selling candy and snacks is a large part of the American convenience store retail industry: average monthly sales numbers for chocolate bars and packs, for example, amounted to an estimated two and a half thousand U.S. dollars per month in 2018.

This statistic depicts the gross profit margin of American Eagle Outfitters worldwide from fiscal year 2013 to 2023. In 2023, the global gross profit as a percentage of net sales of American Eagle Outfitters increased to 38.5 percent.

This statistic shows the U.S. merchant wholesalers' gross margin as a share of sales of apparel, piece goods, and notions from 1993 to 2022. In 2022, the gross margin as a percentage of sales of apparel, piece goods, and notions in U.S. wholesale amounted to 43.6 percent.

This statistic shows Nike's gross margin worldwide from the financial years of 2014 to 2024. In fiscal 2023, Nike's global gross profit margin stood at roughly 44.6 percent.

This statistic shows the average gross profit margin of retail stores worldwide as of 2018, by retail segment. As of 2018, beverages retailers had the highest gross profit margin, at 65.74 percent. In comparison, Alcoholic beverage retailers had a gross profit margin of 35.64 percent.

This statistic shows the gross profit margin for retail products based on revenue share in Germany from 2005 to 2020. In 2020, the gross profit margin for retail trade goods equaled 33 percent of the revenues.

The gross profit margin of Mackmyra fluctuated from 2010 to 2021. In 2017, it reached its peak with a gross profit margin of 54 percent and amounted to 48 percent in 2021.

Mackmyra Svensk Whisky AB is Sweden's first producer of malt whisky. The company was founded in 1999 and their base of operation is at Mackmyra Whisky Village, outside the city of Gävle, Sweden.

Over the past five years, the gross profit margin as a percentage of the revenue of computer stores in the Netherlands consistently amounted to just over 25 percent. The gross profit margin of Dutch electronics stores was just a couple of percentage points lower on average.

Over the past few years, the gross profit margin as a percentage of the revenue of sports and outdoor stores consistently amounted to just under 40 percent. When looking at the year-on-year change in sales turnover of shops selling recreational goods in the Netherlands, yearly turnover declined from 2009 on. In 2019, the turnover decreased with roughly three percent.

In 2023, the gross profit margin of water home appliances of Haier Smart Home amounted to over 46 percent. Haier Smart Home was formerly named Qingdao Haier.

Among top pharmaceutical companies in 2022, Novo Nordisk had the highest gross margin, followed by Gilead Sciences and Eli Lilly. Novo Nordisk’s gross margin in that year was nearly 83 percent, while Gilead's and Eli Lilly's gross margin at that time was about 77-79 percent. Gross margin here is defined as the revenue of a company less the cost of goods sold, divided by revenue. Gross margin is a representation of profit. The higher the gross margin, the more power a company has to raise prices.

Top pharmaceutical companies

Pharmaceutical companies can be ranked in other ways as well. In 2022, Pfizer and AbbVie were the top-ranked pharmaceutical companies based on prescription sales. Research and development spending is another way in which pharmaceuticals can be ranked. Among global top companies, Roche and J&J were the leading pharmaceutical companies based on research and development spending as a portion of revenue in 2022.

Company spotlight: Novartis

Novartis, a pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland, was the sixth leading biotech and pharmaceutical company based on market capitalization as of 2023. Novartis has experienced distinct regional successes in Europe and in the United States being the top regional revenue generators for Novartis.

This statistic depicts the gross profit margin of the H&M Group worldwide from 2017 to 2023. In fiscal year 2023, the global gross profit margin of the H&M Group amounted to 51.2 percent.

In 2020, the gross profit margin as a percentage of the revenue of bakery and confectionary shops amounted to roughly 50 percent, an increase compared to 2019, when the gross profit margin reached roughly 42 percent. When looking at the total number of bakeries and confectionaries in the Netherlands, 2022 saw a slight decrease compared to 2021.

This statistic shows the U.S. merchant wholesalers' gross margin as a share of sales of groceries and related products from 1993 to 2022. In 2021, the gross margin's share of sales of groceries and related products in U.S. wholesale amounted to 16.2 percent.

The statistic displays the gross profit margin of chocolatiers and confectionery stores in the Netherlands from 2014 to 2020. As of 2020, the gross profit margin as a percentage of the revenue of chocolatiers and confectionery stores amounted to roughly 41 percent, which is lower than in 2018, when the gross profit margin reached 52.7 percent.

The statistic displays the gross profit margin of fish shops in the Netherlands from 2014 to 2020. As of 2020, the gross profit margin as a percentage of the revenue of fish shops amounted to roughly 43 percent, slightly more than in 2019. When looking at the total revenue of fish shops in the Netherlands, the highest revenue was reached in 2020, with 387 million euros.

As of May 2019, supermarkets with a revenue of less than 50,000 had an average gross profit margin of 26 percent. This was the highest gross profit margin reached in this period. On average, supermarkets in the Netherlands had a gross profit margin of 25.5 percent in the same period.

As of 2022, the gross profit margin as a percentage of the revenue of kitchen and bathroom stores amounted to nearly 40 percent. Since 2016 the gross profit margin for this sector has remained relatively stable.