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TOL Gases (DAR:TOL) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : TZS Mil (TTM As of . 20)


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What is TOL Gases Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. TOL Gases's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in . 20 was TZS0.00 Mil. TOL Gases does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20.


TOL Gases Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for TOL Gases's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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Competitive Comparison of TOL Gases's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, TOL Gases'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.


TOL Gases's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, TOL Gases's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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TOL Gases 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.


TOL Gases  (DAR:TOL) 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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TOL Gases (DAR:TOL) Business Description

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4B Nyerere Road, P.O. Box 911, Plot No. 4, Dar es Salaam, TZA
TOL Gases Ltd is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of industrial gases, welding equipment, and medical gases, among others. It offers products such as oxygen, compressed air, argon, nitrogen, and ammonia.