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Orient Telecoms (LSE:ORNT) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : £0.36 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Orient 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. Orient Telecoms's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was £0.17 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was £0.36 Mil.


Orient Telecoms Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Orient Telecoms'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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Orient Telecoms Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Orient Telecoms Annual Data
Trend Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.36 0.42 0.44 0.44 0.37

Orient Telecoms Semi-Annual Data
Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
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 0.24 0.20 0.19 0.19 0.17

Competitive Comparison of Orient Telecoms's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Orient 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.


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

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

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



Orient 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 Sep. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £0.36 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.


Orient Telecoms  (LSE:ORNT) 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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Orient Telecoms (LSE:ORNT) Business Description

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Jalan Stesen Sentral 5, Suite 2B-25-1, 25th Floor, Plaza Sentral, Block 2B, Kuala Lumpur, SGR, MYS, 50470
Orient Telecoms PLC is a company that provides telecommunication services using the network infrastructure owned by other network operators to enable cost-effective and rapid connectivity to large bandwidth consumers initially in Malaysia and subsequently within other Southeast Asian countries. It operates in a highly competitive and saturated market as the company is not involved in building its own network infrastructure which would require significant capital expenditure.

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