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Infrasors Holdings (JSE:IRA) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : R30.3 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 2015)


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What is Infrasors 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. Infrasors Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Feb. 2015 was R15.8 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2015 was R30.3 Mil.


Infrasors Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Infrasors 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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Infrasors Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Infrasors Holdings Annual Data
Trend Feb08 Feb09 Feb10 Feb11 Feb12 Feb13 Feb14 Feb15
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 44.51 11.19 25.39 30.23 30.31

Infrasors Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Feb08 Feb09 Feb10 Aug10 Feb11 Aug11 Feb12 Aug12 Feb13 Aug13 Feb14 Aug14 Feb15
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 8.12 21.38 8.84 14.47 15.83

Competitive Comparison of Infrasors Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Infrasors 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.


Infrasors Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Infrasors Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Infrasors 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 Feb. 2015 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was R30.3 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.


Infrasors Holdings  (JSE:IRA) 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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