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Black Swan Graphene (TSXV:SWAN) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : C$1.94 Mil (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Black Swan Graphene Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Black Swan Graphene's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was C$0.31 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was C$1.94 Mil.


Black Swan Graphene Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Black Swan Graphene'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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Black Swan Graphene Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Black Swan Graphene Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
- 1.20 2.37 1.90

Black Swan Graphene Quarterly Data
Dec20 Mar21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 0.27 0.61 0.47 0.55 0.31

Competitive Comparison of Black Swan Graphene's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Chemicals subindustry, Black Swan Graphene'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.


Black Swan Graphene's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Black Swan Graphene's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Black Swan Graphene's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Black Swan Graphene 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. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$1.94 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.


Black Swan Graphene  (TSXV:SWAN) 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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Black Swan Graphene (TSXV:SWAN) Business Description

Industry
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Address
120 Adelaide Street West, Suite 1410, Toronto, ON, CAN, M5H 1T1
Black Swan Graphene Inc is focused on the large-scale production and commercialization of patented high-performance and low-cost graphene products aimed at several industrial sectors, including concrete, polymers, Li-ion batteries, and others, which are expected to require large volumes of graphene and, in turn, require large volumes of graphite.
Executives
Harry Macklyn Swan Director