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Top Shelf Brands Holdings (Top Shelf Brands Holdings) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $3.13 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2011)


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What is Top Shelf Brands Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Top Shelf Brands Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2011 was $0.43 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2011 was $3.13 Mil.


Top Shelf Brands Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Top Shelf Brands Holdings'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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Top Shelf Brands Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Top Shelf Brands Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.01 0.29 2.49 3.34 3.02

Top Shelf Brands Holdings Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Top Shelf Brands Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries subindustry, Top Shelf Brands Holdings'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.


Top Shelf Brands Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Beverages - Alcoholic Industry

For the Beverages - Alcoholic industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Top Shelf Brands Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Top Shelf Brands Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Top Shelf Brands Holdings 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 Sep. 2011 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3.13 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.


Top Shelf Brands Holdings  (OTCPK:DKTS) 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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Top Shelf Brands Holdings (Top Shelf Brands Holdings) Business Description

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Address
700 Louisiana Street, Bank of America Center, Suite 3950, Houston, TX, USA, 77002
Top Shelf Brands Holdings Corp is engaged in the business of developing, importing, marketing and supplying branded alcoholic beverage brands and boutique wines. It specializes in the brand creation and strategic identity marketing for its products.

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