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Blue Label Telecoms (JSE:BLU) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : R0 Mil (TTM As of Nov. 2023)


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What is Blue Label Telecoms Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Blue Label Telecoms's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Nov. 2023 was R0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2023 was R0 Mil.


Blue Label Telecoms Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Blue Label Telecoms's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

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* 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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Blue Label Telecoms Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

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Blue Label Telecoms Semi-Annual Data
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Competitive Comparison of Blue Label Telecoms's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Blue Label Telecoms'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.


Blue Label Telecoms's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Blue Label Telecoms's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Blue Label Telecoms's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Blue Label Telecoms 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 Nov. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was R0 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.


Blue Label Telecoms  (JSE:BLU) 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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Blue Label Telecoms (JSE:BLU) Business Description

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75 Grayston Drive, Corner Benmore Road, Morningside Extension 5, Sandton, Johannesburg, GT, ZAF, 2196
Blue Label Telecoms Ltd is a technology company. It derives revenue from the distribution of airtime and mobile transaction services. It operates through four segments: African Distribution, International, Solutions and Corporate. African distribution includes the distribution of physical and virtual prepaid airtime and electricity of the South African telecommunication and utilities companies. International includes the distribution of physical and virtual prepaid airtime in India and Mexico and payment solutions in India. Solutions include the provision of a mobile transactional platform and the marketing of mobile and financial products. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue in South Africa.