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Media Technologies (Media Technologies) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $0.77 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2011)


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What is Media Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Media Technologies's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2011 was $0.38 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2011 was $0.77 Mil.


Media Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Media Technologies'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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Media Technologies Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Media Technologies Annual Data
Trend Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
0.10 0.16 0.13 0.28

Media Technologies Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Media Technologies's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Software - Application subindustry, Media Technologies'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.


Media Technologies's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Media Technologies's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Media Technologies 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 $0.77 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.


Media Technologies  (OTCPK:MDTC) 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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Media Technologies (Media Technologies) Business Description

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4000 McArthur Boulevard, Suite 600, Newport Beach, CA, USA, 92660
Media Technologies Inc. is a holding company that develops or acquires best-of-breed technology, web properties, and mobile apps related to television, streaming media, and advertising.

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