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Monarch Cement Co (Monarch Cement Co) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $5.06 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Monarch Cement Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Monarch Cement Co's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2023 was $5.06 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $5.06 Mil.


Monarch Cement Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Monarch Cement Co'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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Monarch Cement Co Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Monarch Cement Co Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 15.16 16.35 15.78 16.40 21.94

Monarch Cement Co Quarterly Data
Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep22 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.73 4.96 4.68 5.21 5.06

Competitive Comparison of Monarch Cement Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Building Materials subindustry, Monarch Cement Co'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.


Monarch Cement Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Building Materials Industry

For the Building Materials industry and Basic Materials sector, Monarch Cement Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Monarch Cement Co's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Monarch Cement Co 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 quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $5.06 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.


Monarch Cement Co  (OTCPK:MCEM) 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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Monarch Cement Co (Monarch Cement Co) Business Description

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449 1200 Street, P.O. Box 1000, Humboldt, KS, USA, 66748-0900
Monarch Cement Co is principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of portland cement. The company's subsidiaries together are engaged in the ready-mixed concrete, concrete products, and sundry building materials business. Ready-mixed concrete is manufactured by combining aggregates with portland cement, water and chemical admixtures in batch plants. It is then loaded into mixer trucks and mixed in transit to the construction site where it is delivered to the contractor. The company groups its operations into two lines of business: Cement Business and Ready-Mixed Concrete Business, of which key revenue is derived from the Cement business segment.

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