PharmLink · Commercial

Directo Margin by Category

Live catalogue snapshot
29 May 2026
Source · products_with_prices
Scope · 820 SKUs currently live in Directo  |  Margin shown is the live Directo margin (sell price vs warehouse cost) — the margin earned on real sales today  |  22% gross markup is the operating floor.
Live SKUs in Directo
820
across 7 categories
Portfolio median margin
46.6%
honest centre — avg (80%) skewed by outliers
At / above 22% floor
709
86.5% of live catalogue
Below floor
111
13.5% — thin or loss-making
Loss-making lines
11
selling below cost — priority
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Median margin by category

Median is used rather than average because a handful of extreme lines (likely UOM / pricing errors) inflate the averages. The red marker is the 22% floor; the small grey range under each value is the category min → max.

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Margin health composition

Each bar shows the split within a category: healthy (≥22%), thin (0–22%), and loss (<0%). Continence and Wound Care carry the most below-floor exposure.

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Full breakdown

All figures are live Directo margin %. Loss / thin / healthy counts sum to the SKU count.

CategorySKUsMedian %Avg % Min %Max %LossThinHealthyBelow floor
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Management watch list

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11 loss-making lines

PharmLink absorbs the loss on every sale of these (the pharmacy still takes its banded share). Concentrated in Continence (5), Wound Care (4) and Nutrition (2). Re-price or de-list.

Soft spots

Continence & Wound Care

Highest below-floor exposure: 23.9% of Continence and 18.0% of Wound Care sit under the 22% floor — and these are two of the larger categories by volume.

Data integrity

Outlier margins

Max margins of 2,633% (Continence) and 4,488% (Nutrition) are almost certainly UOM or pricing errors. They distort the averages and may flag mispriced lines worth auditing.