gross profit vs net profit

gross profit and net profit both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gross profit	Yes	No	No	No
net profit	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, net profit is a hypernym of gross profit; that is, net profit is a word with a broader meaning than gross profit:

gross profit: (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold
net profit: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Other hypernyms of gross profit include earnings, lucre, net, net income, profit, profits.

gross profit (noun)	net profit (noun)
(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold	the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)