Labor can account for the largest expense of manufacturing products. You should always keep track of your labor cost per unit to make sure that wages are not growing faster than profits. To do this, ...

As you consider starting or expanding a business, one helpful tool is understanding your unit costs. This is important whether you are offering a service or a product. Simply stated, your unit cost is ...

If the franchisees aren’t profitable, nothing else matters. Unit-level economics—the revenue, costs and margins of each ...

The best way to ensure that your pricing is competitive without pricing products too low for your business to survive is to understand your costs and the profit per piece. Once you can calculate how ...

American Airlines AAL reported a $270 million operating loss on $12.5 billion in revenue in the first quarter. While unit revenue was essentially unchanged, unit costs grew 8%. Due to slackening ...

In July, news emerged that the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin had reached a handshake deal for the eleventh production batch of F-35 fighter aircraft, comprising 141 jets for the U.S. and other ...

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. FCX saw a notable reduction in its average unit net cash cost per pound of copper in the second quarter of 2025 to just $1.13, a sharp improvement from $1.73 a year earlier and ...

The hint comes as cost-saving efforts boosted profitability and results also benefited from the $1 billion sale of its ...