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Top 5 Companies in the Paper Products Industry With the Highest Gross Margin (SWM, NP, MWV, BKI, UFS)

Written on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 4:27am
By Chip Brian

Below are the top five companies in the Paper Products industry as ranked by gross margin. Gross Margin tells you how many of your sales dollars are profit. If efficiency is improved, more profits will result.
Schweitzer-Mauduit International (NYSE:SWM) has gross margin of 27.6%, a sales growth of 4.8%, and trailing 12 months sales of $749.3 million.
Neenah Paper (NYSE:NP) has gross margin of 19.3%, a sales growth of 24.8%, and trailing 12 months sales of $607.1 million.
MeadWestvaco (NYSE:MWV) has gross margin of 17.3%, a sales growth of 3.5%, and trailing 12 months sales of $6.1 billion.
Buckeye Technologies (NYSE:BKI) has gross margin of 17.1%, a sales growth of 11.1%, and trailing 12 months sales of $728.2 million.
Domtar (NYSE:UFS) has gross margin of 14.6%, a sales growth of 11.9%, and trailing 12 months sales of $5.6 billion.
SmarTrend is bullish on shares of UFS and our subscribers were alerted to Buy on July 23, 2010 at $53.39. The stock has risen 2.5% since the alert was issued.

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Ticker(s): SWM NP MWV BKI UFS

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