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Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. Contribution margin is used to ...

If you are a reader of Netflix's quarterly shareholder letters, you know that the company likes to tout a metric it calls contribution profit as an indicator of the performance of its various segments ...