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Cosco Shipping Development Co (Cosco Shipping Development Co) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $19 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Cosco Shipping Development Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Cosco Shipping Development Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $29 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $19 Mil.


Cosco Shipping Development Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cosco Shipping Development Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Cosco Shipping Development Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Cosco Shipping Development Co Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 22.15 54.76 46.58 18.46 20.84

Cosco Shipping Development Co Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Cosco Shipping Development Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Aerospace & Defense subindustry, Cosco Shipping Development Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Cosco Shipping Development Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Aerospace & Defense Industry

For the Aerospace & Defense industry and Industrials sector, Cosco Shipping Development Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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Cosco Shipping Development Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $19 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Cosco Shipping Development Co  (OTCPK:CITAF) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.


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Cosco Shipping Development Co (Cosco Shipping Development Co) Business Description

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Room A-538, International Trade Building, Pilot Free Trade Zone, Shanghai, CHN, 200127
COSCO SHIPPING Development Co Ltd is a China-based company operating and managing container shipping. Its services include container transportation, vessel chartering, cargo canvassing and booking, customs clearance, depot services, container construction, sales, purchase, and vessel management. The operating business segments are the Shipping and industry-related leasing segment, which renders vessel chartering, container leasing, and finance lease services, the Container manufacturing segment, which manufactures and sells containers, Investment and services segment, which focuses on equity or debt investment and insurance brokerage services; and Other businesses segment comprises, principally, cargo and liner agency services.

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