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Hurtigruten ASA (OSL:HRG) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : kr1,439 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2014)


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What is Hurtigruten ASA Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Hurtigruten ASA's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was kr0 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 was kr1,439 Mil.


Hurtigruten ASA Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Hurtigruten ASA'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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Hurtigruten ASA Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Hurtigruten ASA Annual Data
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Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
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Hurtigruten ASA Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Hurtigruten ASA's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Leisure subindustry, Hurtigruten ASA'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.


Hurtigruten ASA's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry

For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Hurtigruten ASA's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

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



Hurtigruten ASA 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. 2014 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was kr1,439 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.


Hurtigruten ASA  (OSL:HRG) 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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Hurtigruten ASA (OSL:HRG) Business Description

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Hurtigruten AS is engaged in the transport & tourism activities in Norway & abroad. Its business consists of Hurtigruten service along the Norwegian coast, with daily calls in 34 ports between Bergen and Kirkenes & explorer activity in the Polar region.

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