These costs are dependent on how much a business produces or sells. If a business is producing or selling more, variable costs will rise. If a business is producing or selling less, variable costs ...

3M Co forecast profit growth for 2025 and beat fourth-quarter estimates as the U.S. industrial conglomerate benefited from efforts to revive sales and reduce costs, sending its shares up 4.6% on ...

Gross profit ... costs a lot up front to develop new software. But once it's created, the cost of making new versions and distributing those to customers is almost zero. So every time you sell ...

Drugmaker Pfizer posted a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, helped by cost cuts it began last year as ...