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Multi Ways Holdings (Multi Ways Holdings) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $11.27 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2023)


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What is Multi Ways 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. Multi Ways Holdings's selling, general, & admin. expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2023 was $8.94 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2023 was $11.27 Mil.


Multi Ways Holdings Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

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

Multi Ways Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
5.43 5.86 6.36

Multi Ways Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial 2.98 2.88 4.03 2.33 8.94

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

For the Rental & Leasing Services subindustry, Multi Ways 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.


Multi Ways Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Multi Ways Holdings's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Multi Ways 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 Jun. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $11.27 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.


Multi Ways Holdings  (AMEX:MWG) 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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Multi Ways Holdings (Multi Ways Holdings) Business Description

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Address
3E Gul Circle, Singapore, SGP, 629633
Multi Ways Holdings Ltd is a supplier of a wide range of heavy construction equipment for sales and rental in Singapore and the surrounding region. The wide variety of new and used heavy construction equipment for sale and rental by customers range from: earth-moving equipment such as bulldozers, off-terrain dump trucks, excavators and wheel loaders; material-handling equipment such as crawler cranes, rough terrain cranes, scissor lifts, forklifts, boom-lifts and telescopic handlers; road-building equipment such as motor graders, vibrating compactors, asphalt finishers, skid loaders, backhoe loaders, hand rollers and mini excavators; and generators and compressors, such as air compressors, generators, lighting towers and welding machines.

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