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Marketing Worldwide (Marketing Worldwide) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1.50 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2013)


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What is Marketing Worldwide Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Marketing Worldwide's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2013 was $0.35 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2013 was $1.50 Mil.


Marketing Worldwide Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Marketing Worldwide'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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Marketing Worldwide Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Marketing Worldwide Annual Data
Trend Sep04 Sep05 Sep06 Sep07 Sep08 Sep09 Sep10 Sep11
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 3.58 4.82 3.01 3.13 1.71

Marketing Worldwide Quarterly Data
Jun08 Sep08 Dec08 Mar09 Jun09 Sep09 Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13
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Competitive Comparison of Marketing Worldwide's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Entertainment subindustry, Marketing Worldwide'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.


Marketing Worldwide's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Marketing Worldwide's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Marketing Worldwide 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 Mar. 2013 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.50 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.


Marketing Worldwide  (OTCPK:MWWC) 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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Marketing Worldwide (Marketing Worldwide) Business Description

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Address
16730 Creek Bend Drive, Sugar Land, TX, USA, 77478
Marketing Worldwide Corp through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Marketing Worldwide LLC, is engaged in the design, import and distribution of automotive accessories for motor vehicles in the automotive aftermarket industry. The Company intends to expand as an acquisition incubator, purchasing companies and patents built by passionate visionaries.